Chloe S. Ivana releases Mugshot Scams Exposed, an ebook on the mugshot removal business

SARASOTA, Fla. - Jan. 6, 2014 - PRLog -- Mugshot Scams Exposed (A True Story About the Mug-shot Removal Business) reveals the extortionate face of mugshots.com, bustedmugshots.com and similar websites that publish mugshots of people arrested in many states, including: Florida, Texas, New Mexico and California. After releasing mugshots, the accept approaches from the arrestees and offer them an Online Reputation Management (ORM) way out that comes with a hefty price tag. The book reveals a flourishing mugshot industry that exploits multiple state public records laws and allows these arrest photography websites to obtain mugshots from the county courthouse for free and then ask for money to take the said mugshots down. Mugshots Scams Exposed, reveals that mugshot websites and the associated ORM and SEO companies are part of the mugshot removal extortion business that monetizes people’s need for reputation restoration.

The book author, Ms. Chloe S. Ivana, has also been a victim of the mugshot-removal extortion business. She has been asked to pay for her mugshot to be taken out of a mugshot website, only to realize that these mug-shots were then found on similar websites and then the extortion cycle would repeat itself.
While mug-shots sites obtain and release mugshots and personal information, Online Reputation Management companies — often affiliated with the mug-shots sites — approach the featured arrestee offering a reputation improvement opportunity. These SEO and ORM companies ask for a lot of money to run their projects on getting other photos appear above one’s mugshot photo, which is a short-term and often ineffective way of restoring online reputation. An SEO or ORM company will claim to make the otherwise stained online presence, clean and positive again, having the victim forever captive of the mugshot racket operators.

By exposing how the so-called reputation restoration companies are the ones that put the mugshots online in the first place, Mugshots Scams Exposed aims to raise awareness on how an arrestee is unfairly caught up in a net of ruthless racketeering in which these companies profit from publicly embarrassing people.

Many victims of the mugshot removal business have been taking legal action against sites like mugshots.com and bustedmugshots.com, but there’s a long way to go before this fledgling industry is taken down completely.

With Mugshots Scams Exposed, author Chloe S. Ivana (http://amazon.com/author/csivana) reveals how to tackle a mugshot scam effectively.