This is complicated but I'll do my best to make it simple. We contracted as a website to post a sponsored advertorial article for flirt.com. They agreed to $100 which is peanuts, but we wanted the money. Little did we know that these are scammers.
So we edited and posted the article about flirting online. After we posted it the company came back to us and said they wanted us to change the NOFOLLOW links (the only ones we would ever use) to FOLLOW links. We refused as is our policy and said that was never agreed upon, They started threatening letters. Eventually, we pulled the article two months shy of what we agreed upon because we never got PAID (they said we did, but there is no record of it on PayPal, just an unpaid invoice notice that has not be resolved. The email they used as as contact is (removed)
As time went on, their letters got more and more threatening until they said they would ruin our reputation, not just on one website but ALL of them.
We can't deal with this anymore so we reposted just what they sent us with the original nofollow link.
We didn't get paid, we got all sorts of harassment from flirt.com (we believe their contacts are in Russia) and they never could provide proof of payment. So we are the victims of scammers.
My question to the community is what to do about it. There are plenty of protections for buyers, but as a "seller" and without a transaction number that I can find, I have no way to tell Paypal and warn others not to deal with this company.
