Sentences with phrase «of fraudulent reviews»

I suppose there is the possibility of fraudulent reviews, but if a large portion of consumers adopted this method, it would provide a good starting point in the market where many Realtors are not providing good service.

Amazon has strict Terms of Service that prohibit the posting of fraudulent reviews, but that only makes the situation worse by giving the impression that Amazon proactively polices the reviews section (as far as I can tell, while they respond to complaints, they do not have any procedures in place to proactively identify and remove fake reviews).

While there are plenty of fraudulent review schemes on the internet, the reality is that bad reviews are most often posted by dissatisfied clients.

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«Fraudulent activity of your employees was not limited to Wells Fargo's consumer banking operations,» he wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday, explaining that the revelations came during congressional staffer discussions with the bank.

All of the cases accuse the powerful San Francisco start - up of extortion and fraudulent business practices, alleging the site's reviews are not unbiased — and, specifically, that it manipulates ratings and awards visibility based on whether or not companies pay to advertise.

Rather than disclosing the full extent of problems like fraudulent home appraisals and overextended borrowers, the bank adjusted the critical reviews, according to documents filed early Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan.

In an article published online Monday morning, NY Post columnist John Crudele reported that upstate FBI agents are reviewing allegations of voter fraud, fraudulent nominating petition signatures and possibly personal use of campaign funds by Bronx officials connected to the Bronx Democratic County Committee.

Astorino's campaign told Fred Dicker of The New York Post today that it wants a review of the petitioning process and whether there was a widespread effort to submit fraudulent signatures to the Board of Elections for the ballot line.

Writing on November 16, Auerbach advised Ronk that the legislature's long - time budget review accountants, PFK O'Connor Davies of Westchester, had settled a dispute with the federal Securities Exchange Commission on charges of «issuing fraudulent audit reports» regarding its auditing work with The town of Ramapo.

But the latest comes from an internal probe: A 14 - month investigation by the publisher SAGE has uncovered a fake peer - review scam involving hundreds of fraudulent and assumed identities.

Mr. Whitesides» profile on Adams Auto Group's website is full of fraudulent / fake reviews to hide the one legitimate review corroborating our experience.

Anyone looking to leave a fraudulent review will have to really want to stir up trouble by making verified purchases of some kind before exacting his revenge or boosting his friend's book.

To me, that's not only cheating (not to mention morally fraudulent), it's not fair on those of us who get honest reviews.

Amazon's initial action wasn't too popular with readers or authors, though, as their efforts at curbing fraudulent reviews also meant your college roommate or a co-worker might not be able to leave a review, no matter how honest those individuals were in their assessment of the book.

Amazon.com is far less stringent in their vetting of ebooks, but they inadvertently let fraudulent titles slip through simply because they do not wish to hinder authors through the upload process by making them wait for their content to be reviewed; Amazon encourages all of its customers to read the free sample chapter before purchasing an ebook in order to ensure it is an actual original book.

A lot of authors are reporting that the wrongful removal of positive reviews is killing their sales because Amazon allows the fraudulent negative reviews to remain.

Amazon has laid out five arbitration demands in a complaint filed with the American Arbitration Association (obtained by TechCrunch, see below), accusing the involved parties of offering services to boost the number of pages read in books, fraudulent customer reviews, creating fake user accounts to download e-books and inflate the numbers and other schemes to boost the amount of royalties authors and publishers were able to pull from Amazon's self - publishing platform.

With the rise in credit scams and unauthorized use of credit or identity, reviewing a credit report is likely the only way to detect fraudulent practices.

Monthly scrutiny: You must review your bill each month to confirm that it accurately reflects your purchases and that there aren't any signs of fraudulent use of your card.

Credit monitoring is the process of periodically reviewing your credit reports for accuracy and changes that could be indicative of fraudulent activity.

By reviewing the information that has been submitted to these websites, there is a good chance that you will be able to avoid fraudulent companies that have had a number of problems with the services that they have provided in the past.

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Another major reason an application may be marked as pending review is if there are signs of suspected fraudulent activity.

On the recommendation of a credit specialist, a review of your credit file may be activated to check for fraudulent transactions and to make corrections.

As soon as you have this alert on your credit reports, you are entitled to a free copy of each report so that you can review it for fraudulent accounts.

I don't completely trust Yelp's algorithm for finding fraudulent reviews, nor do I take every word written by users as gospel, but the website is one of the only sources for reviews of veterinary practices in my area.

In fact they have proven the opposite since the sceptics, with some exceptions, nailed it within 70 minutes whereas the peer reviewed Hockey Stick graph remained as the IPCC's prime «evidence» of catastrophic warming for years before being accepted as mathematically fraudulent.

You would think someone dishing it out that way could take it, but a chief thrust of the Mann suit is that Steyn, in a blog for National Review, used the word fraudulent to describe some of Mann's work.

In 2007, I published a peer - reviewed paper alleging that some important research relied upon by the IPCC (for the treatment of urbanization effects) was fraudulent.

On a broader point this contribution by BBC just diverts attention from the essence of climategate, which was the fraudulent distortion and elimination of basic data and the manipulation of the peer - review process.

Instead, C - ARB foolishly rode the coattails of the EPA's false assumptions, and a fraudulent EPA peer review of the theory.

There needs to be a system in place for detection from audits and reviews to Incentivize the detection and deterrence of manipulative and fraudulent acts and practices, including partnering with regulators and particularly the CFTC to share or refer information, as appropriate.

In the article, Mr. Boyajian reviews conflicting case law concerning the use, by debtors in possession and bankruptcy trustees, of expanded statutes of limitations available to governmental entities in challenging fraudulent transfers.

I requested a copy of the title commitment from the title company and asked if they were going to review the foreclosure file for any issues, including fraudulent affidavits.

Most law firm owners have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with fraudulent or derogatory reviews on sites like Yelp or Facebook.

Contributing author, «Sections 548 and 550: Recent Developments In The Law of Fraudulent Transfers And Recoveries,» 2006 Norton's Year in Review

Contracts: Breach; Set - Off; Gross Negligence; Fraudulent Misrepresentation; No - Fault Contracts; Standard of Review

Through the engagement of qualified forensic accountants and investigators, including Certified Fraud Examiners, a simple review of documentation in a case may establish that the scheme or investment is likely fraudulent.

Set against the Gosling decision, it is worth remembering the ideology as outlined by Lord Justice Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs - Final Report of December 2009, para 2.11: «On the basis of the material provided during the Costs Review, it seems to me inevitable that, provided the costs rules are drafted so as (a) to deter frivolous or fraudulent claims and (b) to encourage acceptance of reasonable offers, the introduction of one way costs shifting will materially reduce the costs of personal injuries litigation.»

In additional to legal advice, customers will need expert assistance in reviewing their relationship with the bank and its management, carefully building a complete picture of the losses suffered through their fraudulent activities.

Purchase a copy of your driving record annually to see if the DHSMV shows tickets that were not issued to you just as you would review your credit report for fraudulent activity.

Job seekers are bombarded with spam all the time — career firms offering a «free resume review» (of course they will find problems and offer to fix for a fee), multi-level marketing plans, get - rich - quick schemes, fraudulent emails pretending to originate from reputable sites, and scammers advertising job opportunities but who are trying to get money or steal the job seeker's identity.What can you do to protect yourself and avoid wasting time with spam, while still being open to real job opportunities and services that can help your job search?

Analyzes and reviews commercial and personal account records to identify trends, discrepancies and / or patterns of fraudulent or illegal activity

• Supervise the team of fraud investigators in daily loss prevention and recovery tasks • Conduct new account reviews, monitor usual customer transactions, deposit claims and over see signature verification • Identify, research and analyze accounts proactively and take measures to prevent any fraudulent loss

Conducted a review and audit of numerous pay documents, travel vouchers, and invoices to identify doubtful and improper payments initiated recovery by collections of fraudulent payments.