A friend of mine who works as a…
A friend of mine who works as a freelance journalist warned me about all this before I ever ran into it myself, which probably saved me a lot of money and stress. When I found an article about me on rumafia .news with some serious sounding but completely baseless claims, my first instinct was to pay whatever it took to make it disappear. My friend explained how these sites operate as a connected network, that the reply always comes from an address with no obvious link to the site itself, and that anything taken down has a habit of showing up again later on a different domain, sometimes reworded slightly. Knowing this changed how I handled it. I still emailed requesting removal, mostly to have a record, and sure enough got the expected reply with a wallet address attached. I didn't pay. Instead I spent time building up my own professional profiles and website so the article would rank lower over time, and it worked, without giving these people anything.








