In a digital age where reputations can be destroyed with a click, David Abingdon has launched a calculated campaign of online blackmail, harassment, and digital abuse targeting Russell and Ksenia Morgan, directors of a legitimate immigration consultancy business formerly associated with Arkadia Italy.

Abingdon, who once appeared to be a client (& Consultant for Arkadia), turned aggressor in 2022 when he failed to secure a refund for a non-refundable service and instead embarked on a vendetta. Using defamatory websites, threatening emails, and malicious domain registrations, he has tried to extort money by threatening to destroy reputations.

Here’s what really happened — backed by the emails David Abingdon himself sent.

Threat Level: Escalation begins
Email Subject: Updated Site
Excerpts:

“We’ve taken the opportunity to update the site. Some more pictures, more information, more exposure.”

“It occurs to me that you mistakenly think that because I ask for my money back from you in return for taking the site down can somehow be conceived as blackmail. It isn’t… If I was asking for more then maybe, but I’m not.”

Significance: This is a written attempt to normalize blackmail by downplaying it legally while still demanding money in exchange for removing defamatory material.

Email Subject: Feeling Good?
Excerpts:

“You may be feeling a bit smug. Savour it. It’s transitory because it’s all about to change and go really bad for you.”

Significance: Thinly veiled threat. No ask for money here, but clear escalation of harassment.

Email Subject: Tut, tut
Excerpts:

“Looks like the good guys are winning the war against your hacker. Our site is back up, stable and spreading the word.”

“The other websites we’ve constructed are starting to gain momentum on Google.”

“You want to buy yourself out of this? You’ve stolen money from me and caused me a great deal of expense. So, you need to do better.”

Significance: A direct offer to remove defamatory websites in exchange for money. This is unambiguous blackmail.

Email Subject: You’re Going Down, Sunshine
Summary: David Abingdon directly threatens public exposure via the ItalianResidencyScam.com website. Strongly implies reputational damage will continue unless money is returned.
Excerpts:

“The website is live. And so is your nightmare.”
“This is just the beginning, Russell. Unless you pay me back what you owe, I’ll make sure the world sees you for what you are.”
“I don’t care what it takes – the truth will be known. And I’ll be the one telling it.”

Significance: Keyword Manipulation — First use of “Italian Residency Scam” to game search results.

Email Subject: Oh, and By the Way…
Summary: A thinly veiled threat wrapped in legal spin. Abingdon attempts to redefine blackmail by claiming it’s “just asking for his money.”
Excerpts:

“Before you go crying to the lawyers, this isn’t blackmail… I’m asking for my own money back.”
“The fact it ruins you? Well, that’s on you.”

🛑 False Legal Justification: Classic hallmark of extortion cloaked in pseudo-legal gibberish.

Email Subject: Another Domain, Another Nail
Summary: David confirms he purchased multiple defamatory domains targeting personal names.
Excerpts:

“I bought russellmorganscam.com and kseniamarchenkovascam.com today.”
“Each site will link back to the main ItalianResidencyScam site. SEO works both ways.”

Significance: Clear Digital Extortion & Cyber Harassment — Domain weaponization for personal destruction through the creation of a digital smear network used as a tool for pressure.

Email Subject: Just Warming Up
Summary: Abingdon gloats about global reach and threatens to escalate attacks on social platforms.
Excerpts:

“Already getting hits from South Africa, Australia, the UK and Italy. You’re international now!”
“Ksenia’s pictures came out particularly well. Makes it all seem very real.”
“Expect the next wave on Facebook and LinkedIn.”

Significance: Digital Abuse & Doxxing — Abingdon weaponizes personal photos and prepares for multi-platform harassment.

Email Subject: Almost jail time for you…
Summary: David Abingdon issues another aggressive email designed to torment, intimidate, and incite psychological distress. He openly mocks technical issues with the victims’ business website, suggests others are seeking revenge on them, and delivers smug threats relating to upcoming legal proceedings. He shows reckless disregard for the impact of his campaign on personal safety and well-being, and pledges to maintain a long-term defamation campaign through his website. This constitutes clear cyber harassment with elements of obsessive fixation and malicious intent.
Excerpts:

“Well scumbags, I’ve been amusing myself watching the literal ups and downs of your shitty website…”

“See, that’s what happens when you’re crook and steal from people, they tend to take a dislike to you.”

“Nevertheless, my website is having a positive effect. People are wising up to both of you and to Carrington.”

“Still, you’ve got yourself a few months until judgement day. As I say, I might come and gloat at you once they lock you up.”

“Be assured that while you’re all inside… I will keep up the website hosting payments and take time out to update the site so that when you eventually come out it will still be there to haunt your miserable sack of shit life for many years to come.”

Significance: Criminal Negligence Indicators —

• • Deliberate long-term campaign to cause personal and professional harm.
  • Incitement of fear around legal proceedings with taunting remarks about incarceration.
  • Vows to maintain defamatory content permanently, regardless of court outcomes.
  • Derogatory language designed to humiliate and provoke.

These early emails reveal a calculated pattern of harassment and blackmail:

• Initiation of extortion: Demands money in exchange for halting reputational attacks.

• Intentional reputational damage: Via websites, domains, and personal image abuse.

• Persistent coercion: Each follow-up email intensifies pressure and threats.

They form a key part of the evidence timeline, showing that David Abingdon’s campaign of digital extortion began well before March 2022. His use of personal attacks, fake legal positioning, and domain warfare make this not just a dispute — but a sustained attack campaign designed to extract money.

And it continues…

Email Subject: It didn’t work…
Excerpts:

“That exercise and attempt to hack and destroy my website www.ItalianResidencyScam.com didn’t do you any good, did it?”

“I (or my tech guy) will just put it back up again, and again, and again.”

“Because you’ve pissed me off I’ve now doubled down and the following domain names (URL’s) all go to the same site…”

[Followed by a list of personal-name-based “scam” domains]

“You return to me the money that you took and perhaps I’ll take all the sites down.”

Significance: Extremely damaging — David openly admits owning and weaponizing multiple defamatory websites. Explicit demand for money to remove reputation-damaging content.

Email Subject: Updated site
Excerpts (reaffirmed):

“Some more pictures, more information, more exposure.”

“You return to me the money that you took and perhaps I’ll take all the sites down.”

Significance: Continuing pressure, threats and ransom attempt.

Email Subject: Tut, tut (Follow-up)
Excerpts:

“Anyone searching on Google for your name, Ksenia’s name or any of your fraudulent permutations will see the word ’scam’ appear besides it with links to our sites.”

“I am relentless and the best is yet to come… Starting Monday.”

Significance: Demonstrates intent to further harm reputation, reinforces SEO sabotage, and maintains the offer to “buy themselves out” of continued harassment.

Email Subject: Final Notice – Updated Site, Court Record Published, Further Action Imminent
Co-signed by: Angie Abingdon (as “David & Angie”)
The complete body of the explosive email:

The website www.italianresidency-scam.com has now been fully updated. It includes significantly expanded information about you, Ksenia, Ivo Sharpe, Arkadia, ItalianResidency.it, and Henry James Associates.

Your recent criminal conviction and sentence handed down by the Court of Terni is now live and fully documented. Court documents are published. So too are images, embassy warnings, and evidence of your long-standing pattern of deception – in both the UK and Italy.

We have now made this information easy to find via Google, and indexed under all key terms including:

• • “Russell Morgan Scam”
  • “ItalianResidency.it fraud”
  • “Arkadia Bespoke Services SRL”
  • “Ksenia Marchenkova”
  • “Henry James Associates scam”
  • And more.

We are now preparing to submit this information to:

• • RipoffReport
  • Scamwatch
  • Trustpilot
  • Reddit Scam Communities
  • Quora
  • ComplaintsBoard
  • Global watchdog Facebook groups
  • Google Business Complaint Tools
  • And press contacts

We also own the following URL’s which are proving useful in our ability to black mark your names. We have many of these URL’s pointing to the scam site, others we are looking to create separate websites in your names.:

• • italianresidency.com
  • italianresidencyscam.com
  • italianresidency-scam.com
  • kseniamarchenkova.com
  • kseniamarchenkovascam.com
  • kseniamorgan.com
  • russell-morgan.com
  • russellmorganscam.com
  • russel-morgan.com
  • russ-morgan.com

You have previously ignored legal obligations, agreements, and basic decency. This will not continue.

We are now giving you one final opportunity to resolve matters privately.

Unless we receive full payment of €24,000 by 5pm (AEST) on Friday, 10th May 2025, we will begin full-scale distribution of this evidence to global scam directories and online watchdogs.

You know what that will mean.

We are not bluffing, and we are not going away. We will continue to dig and expose you and your associates.

The consequences for your future operations — both personally and commercially — will be substantial and permanent.

If you wish to avoid this, you know what to do.

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This is not a negotiation. It is your final chance to pay up.

You can reply directly to this email.

David & Angie

Significance: This is classic blackmail — a demand for money in exchange for halting reputational damage.

This email constitutes one of the clearest, most overt threats in the Abingdons’ campaign of cyberbullying and digital extortion. The email uses the publication and SEO manipulation of damaging (and in parts, potentially fabricated or exaggerated) information as leverage to coerce the payment of €24,000 under duress — an act that squarely fits the legal definitions of blackmail and online harassment.

The message leverages:

• • Reputational destruction
  • SEO weaponization
  • Public shaming via third-party platforms
  • Threats of permanent commercial damage
  • And a final ultimatum to pay a specific amount by a hard deadline

It shows the following traits:

• • Clear Intent to Extort for Payment
  • Search Engine Manipulation & Digital Harassment
  • Threats of Ongoing & Expanding Damage
  • Weaponized Domain Squatting
  • Public Shaming via Global Platforms

Legal Framing of the Threat

This email fits multiple legal definitions of criminal extortion, cyberstalking, and defamation with intent to coerce: