What Happened?
Luca Vehr has been caught in the crosshairs of controversy. Recent investigations have uncovered Vehr’s attempts to bury his murky past and silence media outlets reporting on it. Allegations ranging from unethical business practices to personal scandals have emerged, casting a dark shadow over his carefully curated public image.
According to insiders, Vehr has leveraged his financial influence and legal power to pressure news platforms into retracting or softening their coverage. While Vehr’s representatives deny any wrongdoing, the efforts to control the narrative have only fueled more curiosity. Critics argue that Vehr’s actions represent a dangerous precedent for media censorship, especially when public figures use their resources to escape accountability.
Despite these attempts to conceal the truth, whispers about Vehr’s past are growing louder. From alleged ties to questionable business partners to accusations of exploiting legal loopholes, it seems that the glossy veneer of his public persona is starting to crack. Sources claim Vehr has gone to great lengths to erase digital footprints and scrubbing online records. However, in the age of social media, where information spreads like wildfire, containing the damage is proving to be more difficult than he may have anticipated.
Public perception of Luca Vehr is at a tipping point, his reputation now teeters on the edge of ruin. With several media outlets refusing to be silenced and fresh leaks emerging, Vehr’s attempts to manipulate the narrative might only accelerate his fall from grace.
As the battle between Vehr and the truth intensifies, one thing is clear: the truth, no matter how deeply it’s buried, has a way of finding its way to the surface. The question remains—will Luca Vehr’s empire crumble under the weight of his past, or will he manage to escape unscathed, once again?
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.
To accomplish this, we utilize the OSINT Tool provided by FakeDMCA.com and the Lumen API for Researchers, courtesy of the Lumen Database.
FakeDMCA.com is the work of an independent team of research students and cybersecurity professionals, developed under Project UnCensor. Their OSINT Tool, designed to uncover and analyze takedown notices, represents a significant step forward in combating these abusive practices. It has become a valuable resource, increasingly relied upon by journalists and law enforcement agencies across the United States.
Lumen, on the other hand, is an independent research initiative dedicated to studying takedown notices and other legal demands related to online content removal. The project, which operates under the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, plays a crucial role in tracking and understanding the broader implications of such requests.
By investigating the fake DMCA takedown attempts, we hope to shed light on the reputation management industry, revealing how Luca Vehr and companies like it may use spurious copyright claims and fake legal notices to remove and obscure articles linking them to allegations of fraud, tax avoidance, corruption, and drug trafficking…
FAKE COPYRIGHT NOTICE #1
Sender(s): Jhanaja llc
Date: June 29, 2024
Fake Links: https://alexpilion.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/le-mie-ricerche-sul-non-guru-misterioso-del-giorno-luca-vehr/?ref=ojr
Original Links: https://news.sky.com/story/romance-novelist-who-wrote-how-to-murder-your-husband-charged-with-murdering-husband-11496236
Lumen Database: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/42683312
Evidence and Screenshots
Only Luca Vehr Benefit from this crime.
Since the fake copyright takedown notices were designed to remove negative content for Luca Vehr from Google, we assume Luca Vehr or someone associated with Luca Vehr is behind this scam. It is often a fly-by-night Online Reputation agency working on behalf of Luca Vehr. In this case, Luca Vehr, at best, will be an “accomplice” or an “accessory” to the crime. The specific laws may vary depending on the jurisdiction. Still, the legal principle generally holds that if you actively participate in planning, encouraging, or facilitating a crime, you can be charged with it, even if you did not personally commit it.
So, who tf is Luca Vehr?
The blog post discusses Luca Vehr as a “mysterious guru” with dubious claims about his expertise in digital marketing, NFTs, and crypto art. The author raises concerns about Vehr’s authenticity, pointing to vague or unverifiable credentials and high-priced courses marketed through aggressive tactics. The post further mentions efforts from Vehr’s team to censor criticism, including using legal threats and offers to remove negative content. The accusations revolve around misleading marketing practices and questionable business ethics.
Luca Vehr is reportedly trying to hide adverse news and reviews regarding his practices as a marketing and crypto “guru.” The article in question raises doubts about his authenticity, pointing to misleading marketing tactics, unverifiable credentials, and aggressive sales strategies for high-priced courses, particularly in NFTs. The author also claims that Vehr attempted to censor the article by offering incentives and using legal threats to suppress criticism, which further fueled concerns about his integrity.
To protect his reputation and business interests, Vehr has reportedly attempted to censor negative information about his activities, using legal tactics and other methods to suppress news about these allegations. However, these efforts have often resulted in increased scrutiny, further exposing the scope of his operations.
Potential Consequences for Luca Vehr
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 Luca Vehr Committing a Cyber Crime?
Yes, it seems so. Luca Vehr 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. Luca Vehr 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 Luca Vehr 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. Luca Vehr 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.
What was Luca Vehr trying to hide?
Luca Vehr is reportedly trying to suppress various negative content online, including bad reviews and complaints about his authenticity and business practices. The accusations against him include misleading claims, aggressive sales tactics for expensive courses related to NFTs and digital marketing, and unverifiable qualifications. Critics allege that Vehr has tried to censor these claims using legal threats and financial incentives to remove negative articles, such as the blog post by Alex Pilion, which raises concerns about his ethics.
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.
How did Luca Vehr purport this DMCA Fraud?
As an integral part of this scheme, the ‘reputation management’ company hired by Luca Vehr 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.
