Complaint Review: Seph Lawless - Cleveland Ohio
- Seph Lawless Cleveland, Ohio USA
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- Web: sephlawless.com
- Category: Book Publishers
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I ordered a book titled Black Friday, from Seph Lawless. It was a book about abandoned shopping malls which he apparently got arrested numerous times while trying to take photographs.
My book arrived with a nice coffee cup stain on the cover, the images were poor quality and it looked like a fourth grade student had taken the photos. They were just awful. The accompanying text was barely comprehandable as being the English language. I suspect his dog is the proofreader.
I go to ask for a refund and he tells me to eat s***. That was the official reply.
Turns out after reading some forums many other explorers and photographers hate this guy. Joe Melendez has created numerous harassing webpages on Facebook that attack anyone who speaks out against him. I should know.
Two days after I politely asked for a refund, I get a call at 2 in the morning with some porn music playing. I google the number and it comes up as an old listing for "M Cleaning Services" in Cleveland which (ta da) Joe Melendez aka Seph Lawless used to operate.
I then get subscribed to dozens of porn mailing lists - and the email address I used to contact him with was used just for the purpose of ordering a book. Nobody else had the address.
His mother must be so embarassed this piece of (((redacted))) she raised tuned out to be a harasser and stalker.
Speaking of which his dad is Philip (((REDACTED))) and his mother is Lynne (((REDACTED)))
Please stop harassing people who had the misfortunate to order your piece of garbage. The ink also runs if you touch the paper with your fingers. Very poor crap.
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#3 Consumer Comment
Do the research
AUTHOR: John Lans - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, August 06, 2016
1) 1 star reviews of Seph Lawless's books from customers on Amazon
2) 5 star reviews from buyers of Seph Lawless's books on Goodreads. However if you right click and save the person's photo and upload it into Google's Image, you find these faces belong to people whose images are being used for fake profiles.
3) Anyone and everyone who disagrees with Seph is first blocked on his social media. He can't take criticism. Then they are labelled a 'stalker'. Even if you leave a comment that says his haunted stories are bogus, immediately you're a 'stalker' and Seph will plead for you to report the profile as fake. Seph tries to use his followers as a bulldozer to eradicate any negative press.
4) Any photographer who disagrees with Seph and tries to alert the world to his tactics may expect to experience the following:
- A female named Chelsea magically responds that she too is being harassed by anyone who criticizes Seph. Yet her social media is nothing but Seph propaganda.
- Facebook pages magically appear to attack people who criticize Seph. That page actually can be found in the list of Likes of Seph's posts on Facebook. Yes, Seph likes his own posts using the very page he created to attack a photographer.
- Seph created a blog named 'bully blog busters' which speaks in the 3rd person about the atrocoties being commited against Seph. In actual fact this is Seph's personla blog which he uses to attack any critics. Of course the critics are 'stalkers' if you believe the blog.
4) Several videos can be found on a well known video site which prove the Trolley Tragedy was not a tragedy (SEph claimed it was the scene of some carnage involving a trolley). He later changed his story to say that it was 'folklore'. another video debunks his EVP haunted moans he claims to have recorded in a haunted house. The sounds turn out to be a song which was embedde dinto the video and slowed down by 7 times.

#2 Consumer Comment
Not what it seems
AUTHOR: Eddy Urbex - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, May 17, 2016
I know Matthew, not personally but through the hobby. I also know a lot about Seph and I can tell you right now that the rebuttal attack against Matthew is irrelevemt to the claims against Seph Lawless (Joe Melendez).
Seph has targetted anyone who attempts to tell the truth about what's going on. For example Seph released a video on Youtube about exploring a "haunted house". There were supposed EVR sounds (moans) in the video which were said to continue even after the house had burned down. Well someone came along and sped up those moans and groans and it turned out that it was really a song when you sped it up by 7x. You can find that video on Youtube as well.
There's the fake blog for Haunted Librarian, the one that doesn't have a domain ending with com but just "co". It's desigtned to look like Haunted Librarian apologizes to Seph Lawless but if you look closely you can see that the post was made by 'blogbullybusters'. Blogbullybusters is Seph's blog which speaks about him in the third person but serves to crush anyone who doesn't buy into the lies Seph tells. The resl Haunted Librarian was only trying to caution peopple that the stories about Seph's haunted houses were not factual - and could not be substantiated.
For that she endured a fake blog against her. This is how Seph operates. A screenshot is included which shows Seph complaining about "personal attacks" when in fact the real Haunted Librarian presented her critique quite maturely. Now if you publish stories about houses with made up histories, and you purposely change the address because you "don't want people to find the places and vandalize them" you should expect someone will call you out on the incorrect facts. A grown man would move on. Seph created a blog and even named it the "real haunted librarian". Shameful and disgusting.
Besides selling books about houses that have a bogus history behind them, making fake blogs and creating fake paranormal videos, Seph also made up a story of an orphange where 112 children perished. The photo of the supposed orphanage was taken in a vacant hospital. In another room of the hospital Seph took a photo and captioned it as being a room in a house belinging to a serial killer.
We can also discuss the hundreds of shares his posts receive from Russian FB accounts, all within minutes of one another. We can discuss the 9% real Twitter followers and 91% fake onces according to Twitteraudit. We could discuss Huffington Post retracting an article after they realized Seph wasn't truthful with them.
There's no need because you know what he's about.
This is how Seoh works on social media. He'll create fake accounts belonging to young women. These become his 'cheerleaders' who Like and comment on his negative attacks towards other photographers. Should anyone attempt to contact his followers to explain what's going on, should anyone attempt to leave a response on Seph's page, the reply is immediately deleted. This is why you don't find a single bad thing said about Seph on his page.
Should you leave a message to him or one of his followers, he'll immediately post that "a stalker" is after him and this stalker's been to his house and this stalker is scary and you need to report the account. Seph hopes that if enough people contact Facebook, the account in question will be removed. Joe Melendez' followers are too stupid to question how someone explaining that he's lying to his followers, is a stalker. His followers are too stupid to understand that messaging other FB members is the foundation of what FB is about. Joe seems to feel that his followers and his and his alone and they can't be touched. In the real world if you don't like someone on social media, other people are still able to speak to them. In Joe's world if you're not on Joe's friend list (you've called him out on his lies) then you can't tell your side.
Joe is also quick, very quick to claim he's contacted the police. Usually within 24 hours of someone so much as leaving a message Joe doesn't like, he's ranting about stalkers and claiming his detectives are on the case. Joe's been using thje detective routine for over 18 months - not one person has ever been contacted as a result. Joe also like's to use the legal action routine where he claims anyone who talks about him is going to be sued. He's gone so far as to create a fake interviiew with a lawyer who is supposedly representing Joe in a lawsuit for defamation.
The persons in question who's being sued is named. The person in question who's being sued is attacked in Joe's blogs. If there were a grain of salt worth of truth to any lawsuit taking place, he wouldn't be trashing the other party online. He'd keep his mouth closed until court.
18 months of fake blogs, fake lawyers, fake haunted houses, fake videos, fake police, fake followers, fake shares.
But he's an original explorer who started in 2010, the last person in the world to explore a vacant building. He must be doing it right.

#1 REBUTTAL Individual responds
SLANDEROUS REVIEW LEFT BY STALKER MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER AKA ABANDONED AMERICA
AUTHOR: KING OF ALL URBEX - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 13, 2015
The following review was left by online stalker Matthew Christopher Murray from Harrisburg, PA. You can read more about this man stalking people here http://sephlawless.com/fan-club Matthew Christopher is a hoax, fraud and liar that claims to photograph Abandoned America but never leaves his state of Pennsylvania. A fraud by all accounts.
He tried debunking Seph Lawless and only made Seph more popular and recently humiliated Matthew Christopher on his website exposing Abandoned America for buying fake reviews for his Amazon book that only sold 112 copies and for buying fake followers just click the link in this story to read more and see the proof yourself http://sephlawless.com/fan-club
He's just a copy cat wanna-be Seph Lawless that is no where close to Seph and as a result he stalks everyone around Seph Lawless. The review goes into personal attacks almost immediately giving no credibilty to the post which is laughable.
Lawless book Black Friday was reported all over the news with great reviews from CNN, FOX NEWS, ABC NEWS, BUZZFEED AND SLATE MAGAZINE. SEE TV INTERVIEWS OF SEPH LAWLESS HERE http://sephlawless.com/interviews
Finally, Matthew Christopher is being sued in court for over a million dollars as he faces several counts of defamation. His close friend was charged with felony stalking which helped case against this obsessed lunatic named Matthew Christopher aka Abandoned America.
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