Richard Morton Scoville c.o.b as FssFreespeechstore.blogspot.com
Complaint 154240 Details

  • Date Occurred: 11/05/2009
  • Reported Damages: $100,000.00
  • Username: Uncle Ricky
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA
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The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

International boundaries

    • Richard Morton Scoville c.o.b as FssFreespeechstore.blogspot.com Complaint / User Submitted Image #154240

Mr. Richard Scoville uses libel and extortion to create havoc both on-line and in real life. He was a failed spammer that would back in 2003~04 create a sensational Internet forum or usenet posting that would be spammed across the Intenet to drive hits to his pay-to-read Libel website. Then operating as freespeechstore.com. GoDaddy in October 2011 terminated his website due to years of criminal abuse.

Briefly, however: www.FreeSpeechStore.com is what is known as a pay-for-libel (PFL) website. This is a relatively old scam that works like this:

PFL owner writes a defamatory article about their victim and posts a summary to the website, allowing the public to see a highly insulting/salacious title and one or two sentances of the libel.
PFL owner then posts dozens, if not hundreds, of messages containing allegations against the victim in various newsgroups and web forums, containing the false allegations against the victim and pointing back to the PFL site "for all the details"
The idea is to appeal to the darker curiosity of people by teasing them to click to read more of the "dirty gossip". The user is then asked for a small fee to read more (In FreeSpeechStore's case, US$3.99)
The use of a small fee (Usually less than ten dollars) relies on the principal that people will think "It's only five bucks, what the heck". Multiply this by several hundred people thinking the same thing and the PFL owner now has a few thousand dollars for their efforts.
The PFL owner will suggest that the victim is able to remove the posts about themselves, or rebut the accusations, but these are all invariably used as "evidence" of their guilt, usually with outragious arguments to support it, in order to increase the visibility of the salacious gossip.
Keyword loading / Google Spamming as a Scoville tactic

FreeSpeechStore / Richard Scoville takes this to another step, however: He has been engaging, for several years, in what is known as "Keyword loading" or "Google Spamming" dozens of Usenet newsgroups. It works like this:

He will post his false accusations to several usenet newsgroups, always using the victims name and several inflammatory and false accusations in the subject header of the post. The subject header is what is important here, as seen below.
Many people, thinking that they are being good samaritans, will respond to the posts, either defending the victim or insulting the PFL owner, with the intent of refuting the PFL intent. What most people invariably fail to do, however, is to change the subject line of the post.
The intent of Richard Scoville is to ensure that whenever someone performs a Google search for his victim's name, employer or business, that his pay-for-libel posts come up first. Given that he posts dozens of these accusations and he will get dozens or hundreds of people replying to him but not changing the subject lines, the pay-for-libel subject header appears as the first dozen or several dozen search results.
Even if the person doing the search does not click through to the articles themselves, Richard Scoville's intent is still successful: To expose the reader to his libelous accusations in the subject headers, which is what Google always returns in their search results listing.

I became a target when I requested that he remove his unfounded accusations from his PFL website.

Mr. Scoville will contact friends, clients, peers, employers, law enforcement using his many, many online posting aliases making these same unfounded accusations, his proof seems to be items he has forged and his own posts made with anonymous proxies.

He will EXTORT ISP's and webhosts with demands that they terminate the target's Internet access, and webhosting, "or else" he will target their CEO, board of directors in the same manner.

His favourite accusation is to label his targets as "pedophiles" If the many people he spammed his rants to ignore him, they are then attacked in the same manner.

At this time Mr. Scoville has 152+ known posting pseudonyms;

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His primary e-mail address is [email protected] aka Margaret Aurelia Morice (1909~1995). He assumed her identity in December 1995 upon her death, created the AOL account in 1998 and has used that ID in various "air rewards" purchase scams.

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  • Complaints Filed: 1
  • Reported Damages: $100,000.00
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