Yes your Google Scholar profile It is believed that Louis Arriola is a prolific scientist, which has contributed to more than 700 academic articles on a wide range of unrelated disciplines of economics to advanced nanotechnology.
According to the PROArchive, the contributionSUPPORT TO A Doctoral dissertation in the automotive industry Before turning nine.
While the documents seem to be real, Arriola’s contribution to the investigation is questionable. His name does not appear in the original publication in the 20 most recent entries in his profile and a university professor accredited in more than 100 of the documents confirmed that Arriola was not involved.
An investigation by CBC The fifth estate He has found that Arriola It is among more than 100 people, including multiple Canadians, with a similar pattern of spam and false web content that surrounds them. The website registration records, online advertising data and connections between false social media profiles indicate that the employer points to a New Jersey reputation management company called Cleanyourname.com
David Rosenberg of Lakewood, NJ, who operates Cleanyourname.com, announces on his LinkedIn page that he can “eliminate negative information quickly” and that “through the creation of new and relevant content,” his company can boost the negative online information “below in the search results in Google, Yahoo and Bing.”
A Rosenberg LinkedIn publication states that only seven percent of people go beyond the first page of search results.
“This meant that for reputation management, if we push a negative to the third page,” he wrote, “almost no one would see it.”
In the case of Arriola, look beyond the first page of results and search for public record databases shows a long history of legal problems.
A affidavit From an employee of the Canada Revenue Agency, presented to the Federal Court in 2020, he says that Arriola It was the operator of a “paper company” with “no real commercial activity” involved in a “tax scheme” that saw the agency pay $ 63 million in what it called “illegitimate” refunds.
Arriola was also sentenced in 2009 in California for a fraud related to telecommunications and has been appointed in civil demands in multiple US states That pursued him and the companies that controlled money that was provided and supposedly never returned.
His Google Scholar profile is a part of an interconnected cloud of misleading and spam Websites. Blog posts about him link an artist profile that announces stock images such as his “work”, as well as accounts on video exchange platforms and a website containing his name, Louisarriola.net, which has connections with Rosenberg by Cleanyourname.com.
The fifth estate He has tried to contact Arriola in multiple ways in the last two years, but has not received an answer. For this story, contact was tried through a recently active LinkedIn profile.
A good part of the information about Arriola available online is true, which makes it difficult to separate the facts of fiction. For example, in its IMDB profile, it appears as executive producer of the 2019 Rambo movie: Last bloodA fact supported by the appearance of his name in the final credits of the film.
“The whole point here is to confuse people, to confuse people about the truth in relation to this particular person,” said Ahmed al-Rawi, director of the misinformation project at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC
“As information consumers, as readers, as Internet users, expectation is to in fact understand the world around us,” Al-Rawi said.
“If what we are finishing reading is false, we will have the wrong impression about what surrounds us, about the world, about the people we believe we know.”
IP address connections
Louisarriola.net was made online by a server with a specific IP address, such as a street address for the Internet.
The fifth estate He sent a message to a telephone number associated with David Rosenberg by Cleanyourname.com, asking if he had control of the approximately 140 websites housed in the same address as Louisarriola.net.
In a week, all but 19 of those 140 sites, including those of Arriola, were scattered to a variety of new IP addresses. Many had been in that original IP address for several years.
The website registration records show that 140 sites previously enumerated Rosenberg as registrant or administrator. These records were made anonymous in 2018, almost at the same time that Rosenberg’s name was eliminated from his own website: Cleanyourname.com.
Many of the Websites In the IP address a similar pattern followed, with the first and surname of the person that the website was on the URL.
A man who refused to identify himself responded by a phone call to the number associated with Rosenberg.
“I think you have the wrong number,” he said during the 25 -second call and hung.
A lawyer who claims to represent Rosenberg contacted The fifth estatepointing out that I was in possession of questions sent by text message to the same phone number.
From that phone call, neither the lawyer nor Rosenberg have answered subsequent questions or correspondence.
On the Internet, “you can invent things and create a facade, create an entire world to deceive people or create a certain type of reality,” Al-Rawi said.
Artist profiles emerge online
In 2023, Dr. David Gerber, a gynecologist in the middleOwn Toronto, he was declared have “Participated in shameful, dishonorable or non -professional behavior with respect to 10 patients” by the Ontario medical regulator.
While the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario was investigating the complaints of patients about Gerber and chasing action against him, artist The profiles in their name began to appear online. They claimed to show photographs, created by him, some eventaking away from Sell photos at a specific price.
However, the works were not theirs, and they seem to be part of a network of internet content created by Rosenberg. Several of the photos in Gerber’s art profile also appear in a blog in DRDavidgerbermd.com, a website that was housed in the IP address linked to Rosenberg.
“After the investigation, Dr. Gerber learned that [a search engine optimization firm] In the US, with whom he retained from mid -2022 to August 2023, he had without his knowledge, authorization or consent, he created the sites, “said a Gerber lawyer in response to questions.
“Mr. Rosenberg was recommended to Dr. Gerber for a friend,” added the lawyer in a later email, stating that the doctor “knew anything about Mr. Rosenberg or any of his business before this reference.”
While drdavidgerbermd.com was removed after the initial questions about Gerber, the site seems to have been reactivated when he moved away from the IP address connected to Rosenberg.
“Mr. Rosenberg no longer responds to Dr. Gerber’s communications to him,” said Gerber’s lawyer.
“Regarding Websites And websites and publications, “he said,” all constitute a form of impersonation, of which Dr. Gerber is the subject. “
“Dr. Gerber is not,” he added, responsible for “any website factory or the misinformation publication” or “the use of spam or false and misleading content.”
Other Canadians who had websites in that direction include a Orthodontist from Calgary WHO accepted to take the payment of treatments and then not complete them and two finance professionals who met Problems with the US stock and values commission. UU..
A contacted communications company The fifth estate Regarding the questions to these financiers, Marc Bistical and Paul Zogala of Murchinson Limited.
With respect to Rosenberg and Cleanyourname.com, they said that “we have reviewed the invoices of our suppliers during the period of time it suggested and none Murchinson nor the individuals in question once hired this company. “
They refused to answer more questions.
The Bistícer, Zogala and Gerber have profiles on the Art Sharing Behance.com website. Those profiles include “work” that is not yours and links to a variesTy of spam social media profiles. Behance users can publish their own work, and follow the work of other artists that interest them. The work of Bistrician, Zogala and Gerber is followed by an almost identical list of more than 50 accounts.
His shared followers include five accounts that are variations in the name Mark Tompkins, as well as accounts of Jay Grieg, J. Grieg and Jason Allen Grieg.
Twelve of his shared followers are individuals who had websites at the IP address The fifth estate Rosenberg asked about.
“If people realize that what they are seeing is mostly false,” said Al-Rawi, associate professor at Simon Fraser University, “this will definitely reduce their confidence in what they read, even when it comes from credible sources.”
