Beware another scam company!

We’ve received emails from members that they have received postcards from a company called “Offender Reputation and Registry Removal (O-rep)” and with the website https://o-rep.org/.

The site claims to offer “Reputation Removal” and “Registry Removal”, that his company can help “get you off the registry”. It talks about “petitions that are over $25,000” but that his membership is only $67.22 a month. They claim to only send out 300 invitations a year and send invitations only to those “we know for a fact that we can help.”

BEWARE the scam!

If it sounds too good to be true, YOU ARE RIGHT, so don’t fall for it.

Their site says, “Offender Reputation and Registry Removal (O-rep) was founded in 2019 by John Shannon, a former Marine and post-conviction law expert”. When it comes to Florida, they write, “We are currently awaiting a decision from the Florida Supreme Court concerning our fight in the Fifth District in the case of (Michael Crist V State of Florida)”. YEAH RIGHT! Michael Crist is represented by the appellate division of the Public Defender’s office. That’s public record.

Their site claims they brought a case in South Carolina, (Powell v Keel, 433 S.C. 457,860 (2021)) and that the Court “ruled in our favor and determined that South Carolina sex offender registry requirements were in fact unconstitutional.” Well Powell was represented by private attorneys, not John Shannon or his “organization”, and that’s public record also.

Although the site claims to do business in Florida and South Carolina, there is no non-profit “Offender Reputation and Registry Removal” or “O-rep” registered to do business in either state. They have a mailing address in Dublin, Georgia, but guess what… they are not registered to do business there. There’s also no charitable organization with either name (you can check GuideStar) registered anywhere in the country!

The site says, “Offender Reputation and Registry Removal (O-rep) was founded in 2019 by John Shannon, a former Marine and post-conviction law expert.” Well the founder, John Shannon – Actually John Shannon Simpson (the gmail address on the website discloses his last name) does have ties to South Carolina and Florida and to the registry. In 2019 he was convicted of running another Charity Scam (see: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/former-south-carolina-resident-sentenced-federal-prison-charity-fraud-scheme-targeting) and he’s currently in a Florida prison for Sexual Battery.