The Company is a SCAM and Doesn't Respond to Complaints
Complaint
Allen Williams
Country: United States
WOT is a serious ripoff and SCAM. They don't display their phone number, don't answer problems with their rating system and are unresponsive. They are ruining legitimate businesses and something should be done about them. They rate my website a Negative when it should be Question Mark because there are not enough ratings to determine. Yet, they argue with me for two months, don't fix anything and ban me from even logging into my account to track my ratings! All this and I paid them? I am supposed to be the customer? Maybe their location (Finland) protects them from US laws? I don't know how they
get away with such a large scam. Please be warned, they are a SCAM!
This is how the SCAM WORKS:
What happens is someone can login to the WOT account, and rate a site as phishy or unsecure for absolutely no reason at all. When this happens, anytime a customer goes to your website, a large popup will occur stating this is an unsafe site, and you should not proceed. This is ridiculous since WOT does not have any means of checking to see if this information is infact accurate.
They just go off of that single rating input by a random person. Now, the only way to have this popup removed is to either buy their "Web of Trust Seal" which costs $451/year, or have tons of people sign up for an account in their system, which in turn will bring the company more revenue as well.
Here is there 'game', you complain, then the stop answering your emails, then you complain on their forum and they 'block your' name and password so your account is virtually locked. They don't respond to any questions, there is NO SUPPORT and the support there is doesn't assist but gives you wrong answers and the run-around. So like God, they block you off your account so you cannot even answer malicious statements left by other WOT users that are inaccurate. I hope this company is closed down and will line up to sign a lawsuit against them...
No phone number, no response from company they are NOT a WEB OF TRUST but a Website UNTrustworthy!!!!
I have never hated a company as badly as I hate this company. Non-Responsive, Ludicrous Ratings, Playing with people's livelihood and They don't even respond to a problem When They Are Wrong! I truly hate this company.
Allen
get away with such a large scam. Please be warned, they are a SCAM!
This is how the SCAM WORKS:
What happens is someone can login to the WOT account, and rate a site as phishy or unsecure for absolutely no reason at all. When this happens, anytime a customer goes to your website, a large popup will occur stating this is an unsafe site, and you should not proceed. This is ridiculous since WOT does not have any means of checking to see if this information is infact accurate.
They just go off of that single rating input by a random person. Now, the only way to have this popup removed is to either buy their "Web of Trust Seal" which costs $451/year, or have tons of people sign up for an account in their system, which in turn will bring the company more revenue as well.
Here is there 'game', you complain, then the stop answering your emails, then you complain on their forum and they 'block your' name and password so your account is virtually locked. They don't respond to any questions, there is NO SUPPORT and the support there is doesn't assist but gives you wrong answers and the run-around. So like God, they block you off your account so you cannot even answer malicious statements left by other WOT users that are inaccurate. I hope this company is closed down and will line up to sign a lawsuit against them...
No phone number, no response from company they are NOT a WEB OF TRUST but a Website UNTrustworthy!!!!
I have never hated a company as badly as I hate this company. Non-Responsive, Ludicrous Ratings, Playing with people's livelihood and They don't even respond to a problem When They Are Wrong! I truly hate this company.
Allen
Comments
Simply google for "WOT scam" and you will find hundreds of instances of individuals and site owners who have been targeted by this site for no reason at all. They dont seem to realise that giving a site a bad reputation where it is not deserved affects people's lives, they can ruin legitimate businesses for no good reason and they make no apology or corrections and if you try to complain you get blocked or your forum posts get deleted by the 'mafia' that are probably their own employees masquerading as contributors.
WOT should be taken down and held to account in a court.
These guys need to be sued big time!!!
I live on a small disability pension and run online Ministries. It's long hours for no pay, trying to win souls and feed kids, but according to them I'm an unethical marketeer.
I have written to WOT and complained about them over and over again to no avail. Some of their more malicious comments were removed, but they were not banned, and their malicious lies and slander continue.
My run in with g7w was brief and my impression was that they were genuinely trying to be helpful, and were sticking to technical issues. So I give them the benefit of a doubt.
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/21722-cellunlocker-net
No one on WOT can give ANY straight answers as to how their rating system works.
Here are our unbiased review sites of our website:
https://www.google.com/products/seller?zmi=cellunl...
http://www.resellerratings.com/store/cellunlocker
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews189675.html#
Now according to WOT:
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/cellunlocker.net
*This makes NO SENSE....
What we have concluded from this is
1. WOT ratings are based on how senior member or staff "feel" about the website rather than the actually reputation of the website.
2. if you have thousands of positive ratings compared to a few negative ratings, they will use those few ratings to categorize your website as "unsafe" or "not trusted"
3. Web of trust encourages negative ratings over positive. They feed of the public fear of malicious website.
We have contacted many senior member as to "What can we do to get a fair rating"
so far we have just been hearing crickets.... its because they know there is no such thing on web of trust.
All we want is a fair evaluation. This is very frustrating as we provide good service to all our customers and along comes WOT and claims our site is "Not Trustworthy" and "Not safe for children", with NO explanation as to why they are doing this.
This is slander and defamation.
Please any advice would be great.
I just can not realise how mywot managed to get a deal with facebook. This is just ridiculous
Proofs and screenshots available including the confession of MyWOT owner ( Sami Tolvanen) on Rippoffreport.com
http://www.ripoffreport.com/internet-services/wot-services-oy/wot-services-oy-mywot-com-sa-13b2f.htm
http://codergames.com/news/games/myWOT-WOT-We ... worldwide-scam/
We must join forces and file lawsuit before the EU, they need to pay us for lying our audience and driving them away from us. Their scam managed to ruin our reputation. I make games, they marked me as hacking, phishing and scam website on the Facebook. I didn't even know why the visits to my website are dropping.
WOT has an ostensibly good purpose, which plays well publicly until you scratch the surface. In practice, they seem to operate like a digital version of the old style mafia protection racket. People skills and good PR policy seems to be non existent.
What disgusts and disturbs me the most, is that they have attacked an orphanage I host, and are scaring people away from it. The Wot members who are attacking, already had many complaints lodged against them. Some of their malicious comments were deleted, but they were never banned, and their attacks continue.
Apparently WOT staff doesn't care if they harass and slander good people, and Patrick who answers their support tickets is quick to point out that WOT has legally isolated itself from liability, citing European laws.
It sickens me that orphans and widows may go without food and medicine because WOT allows hate mongers to scare people away from our orphanage. It has the backing of 3 levels of government and the Church, but that doesn't seem to matter to WOT. Is this the "noble vision" their founder had in mind, or has the platform been hi-jacked by those with malicious intent?
I have an open letter to WOT circulating from my network. http://indiegospel.org/profiles/blogs/wot