Title: Scam!!!
Last modified: November 5, 2022

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# Scam!!!

 *  [miky990t](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miky990t/)
 * (@miky990t)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scam-113/)
 * `I can’t find any other word to describe the plugin author! You get the plugin
   free from wordpress site and then what? It sets on your website uselessly. You
   have to download the database file to get it work but where on earth is the database
   file??? You have to register to the plugin author to get the database file and
   how on earth do you register??? Well once you try to register a message will 
   pop up on his website and say “Don’t have a MaxMind account? Learn how to create
   one.”
 * Simply, he will keep your life as difficult as can be until you buy his monthly
   or yearly subscription and simply, I am deleting this plugin all together.
    I
   don’t know why wordpress Admins don’t check if the plugin authors following terms
   and conditions!
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by [miky990t](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miky990t/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scam-113/#post-16169601)
 * Maybe get a little bit more educated next review. You download the database at
   the website of MaxMind which is not mine. I don’t have a database full of IP 
   addresses which lead to countries. MaxMind does. So they decide how they supply
   this to you and yes they do this for free as well as it is a regular business
   who needs to make money to keep their lights running and their employees paid.
 * Fine that you don’t like the plugin or the way MaxMind gives you their data for
   free. Go on and move to another solution. But not really necessary to leave these
   kind of reviews as it is unfair to the many hours and years I’ve put in to building
   this plugin (again for free) which others do like.
 * Maybe try to write your own plugin once and supply it to the WordPress community?
 *  Thread Starter [miky990t](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miky990t/)
 * (@miky990t)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scam-113/#post-16169881)
 * You download the database at the website of MaxMind which is not mine.
    I think
   you need to get more educated and learn how to update the plugin description.
   Why didn’t you update the plugin descriptions to let users know about the database?
   This is your responsibility!
 * Maybe try to write your own plugin once and supply it to the WordPress community?
   
   I didn’t volunteer to become an author. Don’t justify your scam by attacking 
   others! You volunteered to become a plugin author. You either do the work properly
   or don’t.
 * Have a good life
 *  [gamethrall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamethrall/)
 * (@gamethrall)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scam-113/#post-16390129)
 * I don’t usually add to someone else’s review, but I have to agree with the plugin
   author.
 * He does not provide the data. He (for free) provides a way for WordPress to use
   data freely provided by a third-party (Maxmind), something the third-party does
   not themselves do.
 * Instructions on how to do this are clearly provided and, I feel, are easy to 
   understand.
 * If you don’t like the plugin, that’s fine, but given how much you are paying 
   for it (plugin: free, data: free), I think that this is a great solution.

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