Makonix
The following (verified) people have been significantly associated with this entity, either as a participant, contributor, promoter, or beneficiary, according to our OSINT research:
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Russian-speaking Latvian citizen who works with a few others to extort Americans into removing scandalous comments from the internet while trying to hide his involvement from the ring of sites. Makonix, Mediolex, Revdex gang along with: https://hucksters.net/person/yefim-gasel Read More
Yefim is part of the Russian/Latvian Makonix, Mediolex, Revdex gang who for years, spammed Google results with bullshit reviews of individuals and companies in an effort to extort them into paying to remove content, and/or apparently for their own games at fucking with Americans. https://twitter.com/AaronGreenspan/status/977066653912465408 In the past few years, Google's algorithm updates have thankfully tanked their rankings, but some of their sites still exist and rank decently for some SERPs. I'm all for consumer review sites, the problem with this gang is hiding their ownership from the sites while extorting citizens of another country to pay if they want to remove it. Read More