| Country | United States |
| State | Afghanistan |
| Website | www.cottusinfo.com |
Cottus Info has stolen my identity. I found out as I typed my name into Google. I cannot remove my profile from Cottus Info as I have no logon details. I want the profile deleted immediately as I don't want anyone to see it. It contains details which, if seen, don't give the impression I want the world to see. I submitted the profile to Google URL removal but my request was denied by Google. Please help.
I used the form at https://www.cottusinfo.com/UnlistedProfileService/, it was easy.
This company is bad. The people are mean. Why did they set this website up? Someone should call the authorities and explain to them that this is grand theft informacion. If stealing a car because it is in a public place is wrong that someone parked there, then stealing informacion on a public website is the same thing. Take down now and refund all money collected!
www.cottusinfo.com/UnlistedProfileService is a scam and extortion to demand fees ranging from $49.99 to $599.88 to unlist a profile.
Tried calling Roy Allison's office at People's United Bank and it turns out this site is not their own. Although his office was a little concerned that Roy's profile was on the website. We need another lead Doug!
Wait, if this website is a scam, then I want my damn money back! I had to cancel my card to get them to stop charging me and then they tried to go after me with their terms and conditions. I am calling FINRA and People's United Bank today and I want my money back!!! Frank Barraford is going down now after all of the crap he put me through!
If all be true, then any of this dudes work needs to be questioned. It just aint right that this guy is allowed to be a regulator and pass judgement on others while he is breaking all the rules. I would say that every case he has ever touched should be thrown out and the financial institutions that were harmed by him seek justice and restitution. I am tired of this crap and tired of the fact that I emailed this guy every day for the past several weeks and all he does is threaten and try to steal money from innocent people.
Okay everyone you made your point! Just leave Drew alone now. You have to understand that he had a hard time growing up and did not have a lot of friends. You have to understand too that his career stalled out and has to focus on a career where his personality is not required to be liked. People like Drew have to find ways to make money and find a sense of security and power through other means than personal relationship building. I can assure you that what friends and family he has are on his website and he would charge us too to remove it. That just how it is. But don't do things that drag the other side of the family into this please. It really isn't fair and he is not going to do anything about it. Remember, you never know what other people have gone through or are going through. You guys have created a real uproar at home now and let's just let it settle down. Thanks!
I do not think it is imagined. I think that Andrew E Barraford is somehow connected to Eulalie A Paris (Barraford). I think that these two people just happen to work at FINRA and People's United Bank. I doubt that either of these organizations would be involved in a third party data broker website that everyone hates. However, it would be interesting to see if this outside business activity is documented properly. If it is not, then I would say there are ethical issues present if these people are the right people and they are registered and or working for a regulatory authority. My boss and I have been looking at this for quite some time now and it is not clear how they were able to pull our information given neither of us had public profiles on LinkedIn. It is a clear violation of the terms of use and privacy policy of LinkedIn, a publicly traded entity. Therefore, if they are who they are, one is with a regulatory and the other with a wealth management firm and they are using a public entities website for profit. Seems a little fishy, but no one seems to care. So I suggest that everyone just ignore them and perhaps they will go away. Whomever is behind the website does not care and is probably sitting at home getting off on the idea that so many people are reacting to the online chatter. You will never be able to figure out who is really behind it.
Non, lorsque vous composez le numéro de téléphone +1 (617) 536-1604, l'entreprise est le People's Unite Bank, le propriétaire du site. Ils peuvent vous connecter à dame Barraford. Aucun appel téléphonique retourné. Nous ne pouvons pas vous aider. Il est de votre devoir de traiter avec le People's United Bank directement et pas par notre agence. Il s'agit d'un des États-Unis d'Amérique institution bancaire et ils ont des lois distinctes. S'il vous plaît arrêter emailing et appelant. Merci!
I am searching for the owner to contact and find out that this website uses information from websites that not owners of and then puts it on there website and make money by charging to take that informacion that they stole off of there website from the internet. So I called the state business secretary and find out that Andrew Barraford and Eulalie is the contact. So I try first to contact company and find RipOffReport and BBB complaints have been made but same name keeps coming back. So then I try using the mailing addresses and phones from there complaints, 13 Juniper Drive, Amherst, NH, then 20 Stinson Road, Goffstown, NH, then 12 Stinson Road, Goffstown, NH, then I try the phones too using 603-384-1168, 603-384-1428, 603-497-4788, 603-672-7015, 603-672-7566 and nothing. I think this is one of those companyes that uses many addresses and phones but then there is no one ever really there. Does these owners real? I don't think so. They just made up people and it is not fair that they do this. It is just a shawdow game and what is there game is the questcion? There website shows that I still work and I hadn't since my accident and disability is needed. So it makes it as if I am not hurt and working still for same company but am not. Please help me, Mark Reynolds
It is truth that this web site is a SCAM. I try to taked my profile from this web service and was greeted with hard reply. My Director calls me into office and asked why I post on resume site. I have to explain it. How do your USA handle getting this information off of the web when it cause trouble for career? Do you have complaint bureau for this type of theft?
The site host company, the owners and the bank are already under investigation and those found gulity will be charged with fraud, money laundering and cyber bullying.
Please contact to file a formal complaint:
Attorney General, State of New Hampshire
(603) 271-3641
33 Capitol Street
Concord, NH 03301
doj.nh.gov
Good days in working to make this company nicer. But how to taked the informacion down from the online site? If the links charge the money then no good for people like me. I just want my persanal informacion done for last time. Found all adise to not work the ways it were promised to me. They just send me back nastie email the day before this day. Why?
Please, deactivate this account asap. They have stolen my information from my LinkedIn profile and there is no way to delete and claim it or to get in contact with this company. This is a violation of privacy!
Your issue is actually easy to fix. Cottus Info will remove a profile, they even have a page/form to fill out. Give it a try: https://www.cottusinfo.com/UnlistedProfileService/
For some reason the local beer store won't let me take beer for free either, that store is a total scam
You need free option and not charge so many Euros to close the information out of web service. It should not be charged since you taked information and cause me trouble. Why charge so much Euro when you taked the information?
Cottusinfo.com is a business extracts information in the public domain and lists it on their website.
Cottusinfo.com is not the only website to do this; Hachi, Yatedo and Zoominfo also do this.
The contrast between Cottusinfo.com and the rest is that Cottusinfo.com charges to remove information from their site for a limited period of time, while the others provide a free and easily accessible means of totally removing personal information from their sites -- with the caveat that if information about you is still publicly available at a later date, their sites will index the information again.
Note that Cottusinfo.com, Hachi (gohachi.com) and Zoominfo (zoominfo.com) are all located in the United States of America.
This puts Cottusinfo.com in an unenviable and isolated position of charging netizens for temporary removal of data from their website.This resembles an extortion scam.
A whois search ("whois cottusinfo.com", http://whois.domaintools.com/cottusinfo.com) reveals that the hosting service for Cottusinfo.com is http://www.enom.com . Other publicly available information about the site is that it is registered in Panama, although their Facebook page states that they are located at "816 Elm St, #451, Manchester, New Hampshire, 03101". (This information is correct as of November 2014.)
A number of netizens have already noted their grievances with Cottusinfo.com, as can be noted from the following sites:
1) "What Cottus info is?" http://qnundrum.com/question/470904
2) "Cottus Info" http://www.scamorg.com/cottus-info-7c
A search conducted on Consumer Complaints at the website of the Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General in New Hampshire reveals three complaints against Cottusinfo.com. (Link: http://business.nh.gov/ConsumerComplaint/Search.asp , search term "cottusinfo.com" or simply "cottus)
What can netizens do about this?
1) Refuse to pay Cottusinfo.com for removal of data from their website.
2) If you are a US citizen, you can write in to the following websites for consumer protection to register your complaint:
a) The Council of Better Business Bureaus, BBB Business Review
http://www.bbb.org/concord/business-reviews/information-technology-services/cottus-info-in-goffstown-nh-92032152/complaints
b) The Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, New Hampshire http://www.doj.nh.gov/consumer/complaints/writing-complaint.htm
3) For both US citizens and non-US citizens, you can do the following:
a) Write to Cottusinfo.com and their hosting service provider.
Whois information lists the email of Cottusinfo.org as "[email protected]", although "[email protected]" also works.
Send a copy of your email to Cottusinfo.com to their hosting service provider at "abuse at enom.com". Hopefully Enom.com will ditch Cottusinfo.com as a client on ethical grounds.
b) Write a review on the Facebook page of Cottusinfo.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cottus-Info/123384207836532?sk=info
c) Write about it on Reddit.com
http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/2701h7/cottusinfocom_is_extorting_people_who_want_their/
d) Write about it on Qnundrum
http://qnundrum.com/question/470904
e) Write about it on Scamorg.com
http://www.scamorg.com/cottus-info-7c
Lastly, to protect your personal information and to prevent this from happening again, ensure that you control the information about you that appears in Internet searches, and be aware that any of your personal information that is publicly available will be indexed and listed by websites such as Cottusinfo.com.
DISCLAIMER:
All information contained in this writeup is correct as of November 2014.
The author accepts no liability for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided.
You are responsible on your own when using any supplied information or when acting on suggested actions contained in this writeup.
The information that is listed in this writeup is not meant to be legal advice. When in need of legal advice you should consult attorneys concerning your individual circumstances.
When in communication about this matter, keep in mind that any information you reveal can be used against you.
Someone could just start a change.org request and contact Senate, The House, Obama and local governments as well.
Cottusinfo.com has stolen my information off of Linked In and posted it on their site. They are providing no option to remove the data. There is no way to get in touch with them.
I have read multiple message board sites detailing failed attempts to get this site to remove data. I have also found instances where this site is refusing to remove the information or is charging to remove it. I did not authorize my information to be posted here and want it removed immediately!
Seems like this A**H**LE is out of business, he stole my information a few years back and from time to time I have checked and the website is down and thank god for me and all the other people he stole information from...
Using personal info and displaying on website without any permission and there is no way to remove this info from website.
Just a good old fashioned execution. In the street with his family. End the bloodline.
Anonymous can't hack and destroy this site?
If all humanity has amounted to is whoring each other out there is no hope for any of us.
The race is on mr.barrafaggot. The race is between us and you, first one to make enough money and really disappear will win.
- If I win, I will track you down fuck your wife and cut your nipples. you goof.
Help me connect to Andrew Barraford so I can have mine taken down too. Thanks!
Agreement, www.cottusinfo.com is SCAM
It is truth that this web site is a SCAM. I try to taked my profile from this web service and was greeted with hard reply. My Director calls me into office and asked why I post on resume site. I have to explain it. How do your USA handle getting this information off of the web when it cause trouble for career? Do you have complaint bureau for this type of theft?