An ecommerce training company has responded to a local YouTuber's allegations of its deceiving wealth programs in an exposé video after taking legal action against him.
LeapVista said yesterday that they will not stand down against haters and will continue to take the necessary legal actions against local YouTuber Rishi Kumar, who has been issued a cease and desist letter earlier this month after debunking its business programs in a video.
"Over the past few weeks we noticed that there was an effort by an individual to tarnish our image and hurt our reputation. We are not going to let online bullies destroy the reputation of our community. We will pursue all due legal processes in our country to protect what we have built," the firm said in a statement yesterday.
We will stand up to online bullies and abusers.
We are a group of entrepreneurs in our mid-twenties to mid-thirties. For almost all of our working years, we have worked hard and built various businesses from scratch.
LeapVista is a business we built over the past year to plug a gap in the market - the need for better training for people interested in the e-commerce industry.
We are proud of our achievements, especially the community of successful e-commerce entrepreneurs we have built.
Over the past few weeks we noticed that there was an effort by an individual to tarnish our image and hurt our reputation. This individual was never a participant of our seminars or courses. His allegations were purely based on hearsay. He never got in touch with us regarding any of the claims to verify and get our point of view before he made his videos. After our law firm sent him a Cease and Desist letter, he went on to falsely claim on social media he was being sued by us. Using this false pretext he has raised over $20,000 from the public.
We are not going to let online bullies destroy the reputation of our community. We will pursue all due legal processes in our country to protect what we have built. The burden of proof is on this individual, we look forward to our day in court where he will have to back up his allegations with evidence.
We know we are far from perfect, there are hundreds of areas in which we can do a better job. Perhaps our seminars can be better, maybe we shouldn't have had so many repetitive advertising videos featuring Benjamin. All fair criticisms. Where we draw a red line is when it comes to attacks on our integrity and our reputation. We will defend it to our last dollar.
If anyone is interested to know more, make a video, write a story, please get in touch . If you have already made a video, written a story before listening to what we had to say, we would like to request you to kindly amend or take it down so that your readers are not misinformed by one sided false allegations.
The internet is a wonderful place and has provided many with an opportunity to make a living. We are one of them and we intend to keep getting better at it. It is sad to see some use the same medium to make a living by abusing and bullying others. The only way to fight bullies is to stand up to them. This is certainly what we intend to do.
Team LeapVista
The firm said that the YouTuber's allegations were based on unverified information and that he never got in touch with them to clarify before going on to claim in a video posted last month that the trainers "twist and turn the words" to recruit people in the seminars and its training material can be easily found online.
"His allegations were purely based on hearsay. He never got in touch with us regarding any of the claims to verify and get our point of view before he made his videos," the firm said.
The firm also told Coconuts today that they have not received any evidence of the allegations made. Kumar has not responded to Coconuts queries as of publication time.
In the 11-minute video that has over 300,000 views, Kumar nitpicks LeapVista's online advertisements that featured chief trainer Benjamin Tan, who gave tips on how viewers can secure millions of dollars from setting up Amazon businesses in Singapore. The advertisements were seen playing before the start of man...

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