Synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam, and stratagem. In a related meaning, a ripoff is a blatant or unscrupulous copy or imitation. The series has been described as a low-budget blatant ripoff of Indiana Jones. A ripoff (or rip-off) is a bad financial transaction. R. L. Shaffer of IGN called it an unintentionally funny "Conan the Barbarian" ripoff. "Ripoff Report Verified" that offers companies with no prior complaints an option to become "Verified". Ripoff Report is a privately owned and operated for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. Kurt Cobain stated that Nirvana started as "a Gang of Four and Scratch Acid ripoff". Silly "Blue Lagoon" ripoff, with Aames and Cates discovering sex while stranded in the desert. Cobain described Nirvana's initial sound as "a Gang of Four and Scratch Acid ripoff". Others just dismissed the film as another "Young Guns" ripoff. A number of critics have called the film a ripoff of "Goodfellas" (1990). Soon after, Jen left a negative review at Ripoff Report.