Extortion...That's been tried on me before. The way I handle is to tell the guy to go ahead, write all the lies he wants to. A bad review amongst many years of good organic and well-earned reviews isn't going to hurt me. I then contact the review sites and give them a head's up about the threat. I'll e mail every provider I can with his information so they can avoid extortion too. I then black list them. I don't black list often, I do every time I feel they cause a safety issue. I have never looked at how many reviews a guys writes because I simply don't care. It means nothing to me. Someone who writes a lot of reviews has no special meaning to me and is not seen as some kind of desirable client for it. My requirements for desirable are much higher than that. I see through the game and put guys who think their review writing should make them more valuable to me on my no list. I have no time or will to deal with that kind of man-less ego.
A few years back, I actually had one guy come back at me after doing all of what is mentioned above. He left disappointed, I'm not going to be bullied. He was upset because I ruined his income (he was trying to charge me for reviews written under numerous handles as well as using his ability to write a review to get me to render services I do not offer). He complained that no one else would see him and It's my fault for letting ladies that contacted me for a reference know what he pulled on me. Someone told him he was blacklisted and he threw a bunch of threats at me. Why would he use me for a reference when he was an ass in the session? I don't lie to providers, no matter how intimidating a guy has himself convinced he is.
Extortion happens all the time, mostly with new ladies or those who don't have their heads on straight. Getting involved in drugs and the guys that do them brings a lot of it.
Extortion goes both ways. I had a family member extorted by a well-know Milwaukee provider many years ago. He came to me, told me her BS story, the same BS story she fed to other clients that blessed her with their patronage. This happens a lot and this particular provider has a reputation for it. This was the first time and only time I was put between the hobby and my family.
I sent her an e mail and told her if she goes through with her game and gets any money out of him I would out her on TER. She was warned. He was going through hell because her consistent harassment and threats were wearing on him. She had her then girlfriend pick up the money for an abortion then drove the opposite direction of the abortion clinic to bring it to her at the abortion clinic. He gave her the money to make her go away for his own mental health. The amount of money could have paid for over 20 abortions.
2 weeks later during a meeting another client confessed he just went through the same thing with her but he actually believed her story. This poor guy was going through the same emotional hell my family member was during the same time period. How was she pregnant twice in a 2 week period with 2 men's offspring and needing an abortion?
At this point I put a post on TER but couldn't get myself to post her name so I had people contact me who wanted to know who she is. Many contacted me, a few shared their horrible experiences with her.
The best thing anyone can do with extortion is stand up to it, face it, dare it to mess with you then knock it on it's ass. No one in this hobby has the power to completely destroy someone without themselves getting destroyed too. Reviews are not that powerful and neither are the little boys who use them weapons.