11, Report:
#1143884
Posted Date:
May 04 2014
Poetry.com Chandler ViccioHoward ElyInternational Society of Poets Scam, RipOff, HeartRippers, Dreamkillers Owings Mill Maryland
I was working my first job and fulfilling my dream of trying to pursue publishing my poetry. Long story short this fake Chandler Viccio scammed me out of $200 hard earned dollars having me believe that I was going to be holding my very first book in my hand full of my poe...
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Categories: Unusual Rip-Off
12, Report:
#1124960
Posted Date:
Feb 20 2014
POETRY.COM Poetry.Com vanished and took all of my poems. The poems are like my babies. Some are copywrited. internet
poetry.com had several of my poems that I had sent to the old poetry.com. I edited them and resubmittrd them as suggested by poetry.com. I edited them and submitted them. They dissapeared. Then poetry.com dissappeared. They were all under the name Rebecca Chr...
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Categories: Unusual Rip-Off
13, Report:
#1113211
Posted Date:
Jan 06 2014
LuLu.com Poetry.com, Picture.com Publishing and Payment SCAM Raleigh North Carolina
I decided to publish a book through Lulu.com. In November of 2012 the book was published. During Nov. I sold 22 copies of the book via this website. I was supposed to get paid Dec. 31st via Paypal. Dec. 31st came an went and no payment was made however, $131.00 was missing from my L...
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Categories: On-Line Business
14, Report:
#1036813
Posted Date:
Mar 21 2013
Poetry.com Poetry.com is run very differently now and is greatly improved Internet
Since its creation, Poetry.com has been run by several different managements and agencies. Yes, it is correct that these former owners operated the site using shady scams and an almost complete disregard for their poets, but now Poetry.com is under a new management that has abolish...
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Categories: Websites
15, Report:
#530633
Posted Date:
Feb 27 2013
Howard Ely - The National Library Of Poetry - Poetry.com The internatioal Libary of poetry. Poetry.com sold book twilight musings with my poem Artic Knight by troy rath! no roylities recevied !! just saw book on amazon .com? Owings Mills, Maryland
jioned poetry contest , poem was published in book of poems called Twilight Musings by poetry.com an editor Howard Ely! the book has been for sale since 2005! i just saw it advertixed on amazon .com. my poem Artic Knight by Troy W. Rath is the first one in the book! but ive re...
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Categories: Book Publishers
16, Report:
#798449
Posted Date:
Jan 27 2013
poetry.com i wrote serveral poem and posted them on this website poetry.com. One poem was call confused and the other was call mother. It was copy written by me Internet
I had written several poems one called confused love and the call mother. They were posted on this website poetry.com and copy written by me. when i went back on it my poems were missing and i was very upset. I put all my talent in to those poem and it just let me think i was ...
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Categories: Internet
17, Report:
#988991
Posted Date:
Dec 30 2012
poetry.com International library of poetry, owning mills stole my intellectual property of art..after years of profecting & turning my words into visual pictures ..believed for years that I was working tward a book. on that i based my children &I futures o Internet
I'm a single mom who has spent a lot of time & money on my working no my poetry. While online approximately in 2002, came across poetry.com & at the time the site had an up coming poetry contest.I submitted a poem to win the cash prize, instead i received an award &I let...
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Categories: Internet Fraud
18, Report:
#957644
Posted Date:
Oct 20 2012
Judy Lynn Poetry.com I submitted a poem to this website in the 1990s. I borrowed money in US dollars from an uncle so I could make the required payment via registered cheques issued by the local post office. Los Angeles, California
So I got ripped off the first time in the 1990s when I had just begun building a career teaching literature in college. I was very young and naive. I wanted a platform for my work and found Poetry.com
It felt like I finally had my answer. As mentioned earlier, I borrowed money in...
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Categories: Cross-Border Scams
19, Report:
#945148
Posted Date:
Sep 22 2012
International Library Of Poetry poetry.com They ripped me off of all my poems and they made me buy books that had my poems in them.They took advantage of me and my feeling in a Bad Way...And BIG WAY..., Internet
I submitted hundreds of poems on this site.Thinking it would always be there, never backed any of it up.Then one day I went to print some of my poems for my doctor, and they no longer exisisted.They had left, without sending me any notice, not anything so I could back up my poetry. ...
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Categories: Questionable Activities
20, Report:
#920070
Posted Date:
Jul 31 2012
poetry.com No greener pastures (supposed book title) theft of intellectual property (po em) fraud, Internet
I was contacted by poetry.com and was asked if i would like my poem entitled ,Revelations to be published in a book(No Greener Pastures). My poem is still out there and i would like ownership of my own intellectual property back.
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Categories: Computer Fraud