Fast Global Migration

A summary of what happened?

Fast Global Migration is an immigration consultancy based in Dubai, offering visa and migration services for individuals and businesses, particularly for countries like Canada, Australia, and the UK. However, the company has faced several controversies and complaints related to its practices, which have raised concerns about its legitimacy and customer service.

3 Major Concerns, Complaints, and Accusations Against Fast Global Migration:

1. Fraud Allegations:
   • Fast Global Migration has been accused of defrauding clients by charging high upfront fees without delivering the promised services. Many clients reported that their applications were either delayed or filled with incorrect information, leading to application rejections. Some customers claimed that even after multiple payments, the company failed to process their visas or provide refunds.
2. Poor Customer Service:
   • Numerous reviews have criticized the company’s unprofessional customer service. Clients reported difficulties in reaching customer support, receiving vague responses, or no follow-up on their inquiries. Many reviews indicate that clients felt abandoned after paying for services, with some even describing it as a “scam.”
3. Fake Reviews and Misleading Marketing:
   • Fast Global Migration has been accused of soliciting fake positive reviews to boost its online reputation while attempting to bury negative feedback. This led to Trustpilot, a major review platform, initiating legal proceedings against companies, including Fast Global Migration, for manipulating reviews to mislead potential clients.

These issues have contributed to a growing perception that Fast Global Migration is engaging in deceptive practices, leading to widespread dissatisfaction among customers and increased scrutiny of its business operations.

Analyzing the Fake Copyright Notice(s)

Our team collects and analyses fraudulent copyright takedown requests, legal complaints, and other efforts to remove critical information from the internet. Through our investigative reporting, we examine the prevalence and operation of an organized censorship industry, predominantly funded by criminal entities, oligarchs, and disreputable businesses or individuals. Our findings allow internet users to gain insight into these censorship schemes’ sources, methods, and underlying objectives.

What was Fast Global Migration trying to hide?

Fast Global Migration‘s attempts to hide unfavourable content through the misuse of copyright notices while allegedly engaging in perjury present serious legal concerns. These actions suggest a calculated attempt to manipulate legal systems to suppress free speech, a fundamental violation of copyright law principles and an abuse of legal processes. The use of such tactics not only undermines the integrity of copyright protection but also potentially constitutes perjury, further entangling Fast Global Migration in legal accountability. Let’s examine the information Fast Global Migration may be trying to remove from the internet –

Here is a list of the major adverse news, allegations, lawsuits, sanctions, complaints, and negative reviews against Fast Global Migration:

1. Fraud Allegations

Fast Global Migration has been accused of defrauding clients by charging large upfront fees without delivering promised immigration services. Clients reported delays in processing applications, incorrect documentation, and refusal to refund money after visa applications were rejected.

2. Poor Customer Service

Many clients have complained about unresponsive and unprofessional customer service. After making payments, clients often found it difficult to get in touch with representatives, receiving vague or no responses regarding their application status.

3. Delays and Errors in Visa Applications

The company has been reported for delaying visa applications and submitting forms with errors, leading to visa rejections. Clients had to correct these mistakes on their own, and the company’s slow responses caused further delays.

4. Fake Reviews and Misleading Marketing

Fast Global Migration has been accused of soliciting fake reviews to improve its online reputation while burying genuine complaints. Several platforms have identified and removed fake reviews linked to the company.

5. Aggressive Sales Tactics

Clients have reported feeling pressured into signing up for services through aggressive sales tactics. Many were promised fast results, but once payments were made, the company did not deliver as promised.

6. Failure to Provide Refunds

Numerous clients have accused the company of refusing to issue refunds, even when services were not rendered or when the company made mistakes in the visa application process. Refund requests were either ignored or denied.

7. High Service Fees Without Delivery

Fast Global Migration has been criticized for charging high upfront fees without delivering the expected services. Clients felt that the services they received were inadequate for the price they paid.

8. Scam Allegations

Several customers have labeled the company as a scam, citing false promises, failure to complete visa processes, and deceptive practices that took advantage of their trust.

These issues have severely impacted the reputation of Fast Global Migration, leading to numerous complaints from clients who felt misled by the company’s practices.

How do we counteract this malpractice?

Once we ascertain the involvement of Fast Global Migration (or actors working on behalf of Fast Global Migration), we will inform Fast Global Migration of our findings via Electronic Mail.

Our preliminary assessment suggests that Fast Global Migration may have engaged a third-party reputation management agency or expert, which, either independently or under direct authorization from Fast Global Migration, initiated efforts to remove adverse online content, including potentially fraudulent DMCA takedown requests. We will extend an opportunity to Fast Global Migration to provide details regarding their communications with the agency or expert, as well as the identification of the individual(s) responsible for executing these false DMCA notices.

Failure to respond in a timely manner will necessitate a reassessment of our initial assumptions. In such an event, we will be compelled to take appropriate legal action to rectify the unlawful conduct and take the following steps –

Since Fast Global Migration made such efforts to hide something online, it seems fit to ensure that this article and sensitive information targeted online by these events get a lot more exposure and traffic than what it would have received originally

We hope this becomes an excellent case study for the Streisand effect…The key idea behind the Streisand effect is that efforts to restrict information can backfire, often causing the information to gain more attention than it would have otherwise. This effect is widespread in the digital age, where users quickly notice and spread censorship efforts on social media and other platforms. Trying to suppress something can unintentionally lead to it becoming more visible, which Fast Global Migration is finding out the hard way.

Potential Consequences for Fast Global Migration

Under Florida Statute 831.01, the crime of Forgery is committed when a person falsifies, alters, counterfeits, or forges a document that carries “legal efficacy” with the intent to injure or defraud another person or entity.

Forging a document is considered a white-collar crime. It involves altering, changing, or modifying a document to deceive another person. It can also include passing along copies of documents that are known to be false. In many states in the US, falsifying a document is a crime punishable as a felony.

Additionally, under most laws, “fraud on the court” is where “a party has sentiently set in motion some unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system’s ability impartially to adjudicate a matter by improperly influencing the trier of fact or unfairly hampering the presentation of the opposing party’s claim or defense.”  Cox v. Burke, 706 So. 2d 43, 46 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998) (quoting Aoude v. Mobil Oil Corp., 892 F.2d 1115, 1118 (1st Cir. 1989)).

Is Fast Global Migration Committing a Cyber Crime?

Yes, it seems so. Fast Global Migration used multiple approaches to remove unwanted material from review sites and Google’s search results. Thanks to protections allowing freedom of speech in the United States, there are very few legal ways to do this. Fast Global Migration could not eliminate negative reviews or search results that linked to them without a valid claim of defamation, copyright infringement, or some other clear breach of the law.

Faced with these limitations, some companies like Fast Global Migration have gone to extreme lengths to fraudulently claim copyright ownership over a negative review in the hopes of taking it down.

Fake DMCA notices have targeted articles highlighting the criminal activity of prominent people to hide their illegal behavior. These people, which include US, Russian, and Khazakstani politicians as well as members from elite circles including the mafia and those with massive financial power, are all connected – and alleged corruption ranging from child abuse to sexual harassment is exposed when exploring evidence found at these URLs. It appears there’s a disturbing level of influence being exerted here that needs further investigation before justice can be served. Fast Global Migration is certainly keeping interesting company here….

The DMCA takedown process requires that copyright owners submit a takedown notice to an ISP identifying the allegedly infringing content and declaring, under penalty of perjury, that they have a good faith belief that the content is infringing. The ISP must then promptly remove or disable access to the content. The alleged infringer can then submit a counter-notice, and if the copyright owner does not take legal action within 10 to 14 days, the ISP can restore the content.

Since these platforms are predominantly based in the U.S., the complaints are typically made under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which requires online service providers and platforms to react immediately to reports or violations. Big Tech companies rarely have systems in place to assess the merit of each report. Instead, all bad actors need to do is clone a story, backdate it, and then demand the real thing be taken down.

Reputation Agency's Modus Operandi

The fake DMCA notices we found always use the “back-dated article” technique. With this technique, the wrongful notice sender (or copier) creates a copy of a “true original” article and back-dates it, creating a “fake original” article (a copy of the true original) that, at first glance, appears to have been published before the true original.

Then, based on the claim that this backdated article is the “original,” the scammers send a DMCA to the relevant online service providers (e.g. Google), alleging that the ‘true’ original is the copied or “infringing” article and that the copied article is the “original,” requesting the takedown of the ‘true’ original article. After sending the DMCA request, the person who sent the wrong notice takes down the fake original URL, likely to make sure that the article doesn’t stay online in any way. If the takedown notice is successful, the disappearance from the internet of information is most likely to be legitimate speech.

As an integral part of this scheme, the ‘reputation management’ company hired by Fast Global Migration creates a website that purports to be a ‘news’ site. This site is designed to look legitimate at a glance, but any degree of scrutiny reveals it as the charade it is.

The company copies the ‘negative’ content and posts it “on the fake ‘news’ site, attributing it to a separate author,” then gives it “a false publication date on the ‘news’ website that predated the original publication.

The reputation company then sent Google a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice claiming the original website infringed copyright. After a cursory examination of the fake news site, Google frequently accepts the notice and delists the content.

In committing numerous offences, Fast Global Migration either premeditated actions or were unaware of the consequences. Despite hiring an agency to make Google disregard any negative information about Fast Global Migration, ignorance does not excuse this wrongdoing.

Fake DMCA notices have targeted articles highlighting the criminal activity of prominent people to hide their illegal behavior. These people, which include US, Russian, and Khazakstani politicians as well as members from elite circles including the mafia and those with massive financial power, are all connected – and alleged corruption ranging from child abuse to sexual harassment is exposed when exploring evidence found at these URLs. It appears there’s a disturbing level of influence being exerted here that needs further investigation before justice can be served. FSMSmart is certainly keeping interesting company here.

The Reputation Laundering

Rogue Reputation agencies use spurious copyright claims and fake legal notices to remove and obscure articles linking clients to allegations of tax avoidance, corruption, and drug trafficking. Most of these reputation agencies are based offshore, mainly in Russia, India, and Eastern Europe, and they do not worry about complying with US-based laws.

The content in all of the articles for which the fraudulent DMCA notices have been sent relates to allegations of criminal allegations, including corruption, child abuse, sexual harassment, human trafficking and financial fraud against businesses and individuals with ultra-high net worth.

In addition to the misuse of the DMCA takedown process, there is a notable absence of enforcement concerning perjury violations. The statutory requirement related to perjury is designed to deter copyright holders from submitting fraudulent or knowingly false takedown requests, as they may face legal consequences for making false declarations under penalty of perjury. However, to date, there have been no known instances of any individual being prosecuted for perjury in connection with the submission of false DMCA takedown notices.

This lack of enforcement has emboldened copyright holders to exploit the DMCA takedown process to suppress dissent, criticism, or other unfavorable content, without fear of legal repercussions.

Some of the people and businesses who have employed this tactic to remove legitimate content from Google illegally include a Spanish businessman-turned-cocaine-trafficker, Organised crime, an Israeli-Argentine banker accused of laundering money for Hugo Chávez’s regime, a French “responsible” mining company accused of tax evasion, child molesters and sexual predators. Fast Global Migration is in great company ….

What else is Fast Global Migration hiding?

We encourage you to ‘Dork‘ Google by searching for keyword combinations such as [Fast Global Migration] + {Negative Keyword, such as Scam, Fraud, Complaints, Lawsuit, Sanction, etc} on Google. It’s likely if you scroll down to the bottom of this Google search results, you’ll stumble upon this Legal Takedown notice (pictured below)

To make such an investigation possible, we encourage more online service providers to come forward and share copies of content removal requests with industry experts and researchers. If you have any information on Fast Global Migration that you want to share with experts and journalists, kindly email the author directly at [email protected].

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