What
is this? A legalistic quash email issued to a web
review site - highly-indexed by Google and other engines -
to remove a very negative and wrongful write-up on a client,
a professional in San Francisco, owner of
multi-million-dollar practice. (The damaging content was
deleted upon receipt.)
----- Original Message -----
From: [Consultant]
To: [Adverse Party]
Cc: [Client]
Sent: [Date / Time]
Subject: Delete
Wrongful / Copyrighted Content - URGENT
Subject: Listing of and about
John Doe / ABC Company
To Whom It May Concern:
In an effort to mitigate
further damages, I am writing on behalf of the owner of ABC,
John Doe, to in brief address what is now an urgent situation
endangering his long-time practice, current livelihood and,
potentially, his prospects for the sale of his business and
pending retirement.
First, please be advised that
this email message is intended to be read ONLY by operators,
managers and employees of the website operating under the name
Adverse Party, and/or www.***.com. Authorization is NOT granted
to share this with any outside individual, organization or
entity.
Within past weeks, you entered
John Doe and his practice on your review website, www.***.com.
A highly negative, very damaging and almost entirely false
review was posted and is now indexed by Google.
The owners, management and
staff of the Adverse Party website are hereby advised of the
following facts:
- For more than 25 years,
John Doe has run a profitable and highly reputable practice
at the same location in the upscale Generic neighborhood of
San Francisco.
- John Doe's very
established business trade includes long-time (and
long-returning) clients prominent in local and state
politics, business and the entertainment industry.
- For more than 10 years
John Doe has known the family of the individual who
submitted the subject review. In fact, as a favor to the
individual's family, John Doe hired the individual (an
electrician) to carry out a $50,000 upgrade at one of Mr.
Doe's real properties.
- The individual in question
has a history of erratic and potentially dangerous
behavior. (To wit: The individual once advised John Doe
that if a female acquaintance of the individual broke off a
relationship, he would do her bodily harm - *fatal* bodily
harm.)
- The individual is
currently in default on fees of more than $5,000.
- All claims made in the
individual's review on the Adverse Party website are either
patently false, or greatly and negatively exaggerated.
- The individual's erratic
behavior has accelerated in recent months.
Therefore, in consideration of
the above relevant facts, and on behalf of John Doe, I am
formally requesting that you immediately remove from your
website(s) all references to his person, his website and his
business, ABC, Inc.
While John Doe has, of course,
consulted an attorney, as an alternative course of least
resistance for all concerned I recommend that you simply delete
the content upon receipt of this message and confirm said action
by email reply to me.
While the Adverse Party website
is no doubt operated with the best of intentions, in this case
it has been misused in the extreme and the results could prove
irreparably harmful to John Doe and his business.
Finally, in the event the
contents of this CONFIDENTIAL message are disclosed to any
individual, entity or company without the express and written
consent of the writer, any resulting harassment or harm suffered
by John Doe, his staff or his practice shall be deemed damages
of an highly egregious nature.
Sincerely,
GenTac, LLC
www.gentac.com
Legal Advisory: All
communications herein and attached are proprietary, legally
copyrighted and confidential. All rights are reserved and
protected.
