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Title    5-Star Phonies: Inside the Fake Amazon Review Complex
Date    Monday April 15 2019, @09:50AM
Author    chromas
Topic   
from the ★★★★★☆☆ dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/15/0636255

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

The fake Amazon review economy is a thriving market, ripe with underground forums, "How To Game The Rankings!" tutorials, and websites with names like (now-defunct) "amazonverifiedreviews.com."

But the favored hunting grounds for sellers on the prowl is Amazon's fellow tech behemoth, Facebook.

In a recent two-week period, I identified more than 150 private Facebook groups where sellers openly exchange free products (and, in many cases, commissions) for 5-star reviews, sans disclosures.

A sampling of 20 groups I analyzed [which I've posted publicly here] collectively have more than 200,000 members. These groups seem to be in the midst of an online Gold Rush: Most are less than a year old, and in the past 30 days have attracted more than 50,000 new users.

Honesty and "no scamming" are touted as group rules — but a look under the hood reveals a potpourri of foul play.

Source: https://thehustle.co/amazon-fake-reviews


Original Submission

Links

  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "now-defunct" - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18242303/ftc-fake-amazon-reviews-lawsuit-false-advertising
  3. "which I've posted publicly here" - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WO1Vw1Sjs5R3mToz2BM1kpantlgtuRewgRNbvc5VxeY/edit#gid=0
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=33015

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