These fake Amazon reviews seem to be part of a much bigger problem, sparking fears that consumer spending of # 23billion (USD$ 35 billion or AUD$ 48 billion) a year is being rigged by sellers paying
for bogus reviews.
Not exact matches
For his efforts, the conservative National
Review gleefully declared Miller's
bogus «cupcake amnesty» to be «further proof that Texas is the greatest state in the union.»
If the Presidency does not
review these «
bogus» allocations in its proposed expenditure, it may lose the moral right to advise the National Assembly against spending some billions of naira on purchasing cars
for its members despite the fact that the legislators have already collected their car allowances plus other sundry emoluments.
A bigger surprise is that
for DOAJ publishers that completed the
review process, 45 % accepted the
bogus paper.
But we feel it is dishonest because it offers
bogus dating site
reviews based solely on how much kickback money they will get
for referring the site.
What would happen if instead of spending your time, and often your money, weeding though
bogus sites or ones that just don't fit your needs, you could get a quick snapshot and a
review of these sites from someone who was also part of the bisexuals, understood exactly what you are looking
for and knew what details are important?
Unlike other dating sites that we have we have
reviewed and exposed
for fraud, XDating.com doesn't have any special logo attached to the
bogus profile pages that they build.
I not only had my children's charity books shelved on inappropriate shelves, but voted down without
review AND had a
bogus copy of my first children's book which gives 10 % of sales to animal rescue, put up
for sale on Amazon.
I put a
review on the book as it is not mine but gave it 5 stars and an explanation that it is a
bogus copy, and the real copy is indeed in print and
for sale in my line - up of books.
I must say I hear a lot more stories of authors who were scammed by paying
for bogus «systems» «programs» guaranteed to get you tons of
reviews or high rankings.
Not unless you don't care what kind of attention you get, of course — but given that companies who fake
reviews online are now getting hit with massive fines in New York, you still might want to steer clear of paying anyone to write a
bogus, needlessly positive
review for you!
They criticized successful authors
for their «greed» in charging money
for their work and gamed Goodreads
for free hard - copy books, which they'd give
bogus one - star «
reviews,» then sell unread on ebay.
What the IEA is basically damning them
for is not including data that an automated, peer -
reviewed process found was
bogus.
Although both Amazon and the Federal Trade Commission are fighting to curtail
bogus reviews, it's impossible to know
for certain if any individual user
review or comment is legit.