With fake reviews and bogus companies lurking around, it's safe to say that the online commerce is filled with a lot of rubbish.
Not only do they look cheap, these are the kind of ads that are notoriously associated
with fake reviews and «free sample» scams.
Most and probably all of them are from China, and it's hard to tell the good from the bad based on Amazon reviews because the sellers have flooded their pages
with fake reviews, or have taken old product pages and swapped out the merchandise so that the reviews no longer make sense.
I found that some of the writing companies offering many discounts and other reward programs to catch the customers or students to sell their essays but most of them are fake sites or attracting the clients
with fake reviews.
Which means that authors innocent of any wrongdoing get genuine, organic reviews from bona fide reviewers removed every day and the scammers and cheaters
with fake reviews keep getting away with it.
Purchased reviews have been an embarrassment to the Zon since 2012, when the New York Times revealed indie superstar John Locke bought his way to fame and fortune
with fake reviews (and many other authors had as well.)
I'd heard of the issues
with fake reviews and real ones that got caught up in the cross fire, but didn't realize how deep some of those fake reviews went.
I've also just written about the increasing problems
with fake reviews: What's a 5 - star review worth?
The REAL reason they are doing this is because Amazon is flooded
with FAKE REVIEWS put up by Chinese troll farms, and Amazon's «Gold Box» is now just a clearing house for Chinese companies that pay money for product placement.
Right now it is way to easy for an author to get friends, family and themselves (via fake userids) to prime the pump
with fake reviews.
From bios created to mimic classified ads to
those with fake reviews, these are the overused dating app profiles its time to move on from.
Not exact matches
There were more
faked Facebook pages comprising an alternate universe,
with online comments and
reviews and references to email and videos, as well as an imposter purporting to be their son conversing
with the alleged pedophile.
Vice writer Oobah Butler — who also recently impersonated a designer for Paris Fashion Week — already had a bit of experience
with gaming
review sites, having previously been paid to write
fake reviews by a shady PR service.
But this coffee maker might be most worth a try: It's a # 1 best - seller on Amazon
with over 1,500
reviews and a 4.5 rating, and it gets an A on the site Fakespot, which spots which products might have
fake reviews.
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 - New York State Attorney Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday said he has been investigating for six months who posted significant numbers of
fake comments filed
with the Federal Communications Commission in its
review of net neutrality rules.
Posting
fake reviews and asking customers to post
reviews can land you in trouble
with Yelp and Google.
I don't agree
with making a
fake site and I believe made up
reviews is entirely unethical, but I do agree
with owning your own name and preventing someone from posting a site calling you a scam out of spite.
Feltso: The Hyderabad - based startup
with the help of its proprietary artificial intelligence technology can read thousands of customer
reviews from multiple sources, eliminates
fake reviews and prepares a summary in a graphical and easy - to - understand way.
Anyone who's read oddly positive online
reviews or happened on Twitter users
with suspiciously large followings knows that the Internet is full of
fakes.
«They flooded Amazon
with fake 1 star
reviews and have made it impossible to sell a lot of coolers.»
So if it was «proven
fake» then why is it only on conspiracy theorist websites
with no actual legal backing or
review?
These are journals that sport
fake impact factors, that promise a 1 - week peer
review, that publish tons of papers that contain plagiarism, and that annoy researchers worldwide
with doltish spam.»
«There is no way to say
with 100 percent certainty that a particular
review is
fake,» he explains.
So far, GMP
Review and Ludus Vitalis are the only ones
with fake journals open for business.
In an e-mail exchange
with Science, the Springer representative wrote, «We agree
with what Cyril Labbé says in his quote [in the press release]: «Software can not replace peer
reviews and academic evaluation, but SciDetect lends publishers an additional hand in the fight against fraud and
fake papers.»»
As described in the paper, «Characteristics of retractions related to
faked peer
reviews: an overview,» the authors searched Retraction Watch as well as various databases such as PubMed and Google Scholar, along
with other media reports, and found 250 retractions for
fake peer
review.
Some
reviews online demonstrate that the product Xanogen was promoted
with «
fake blogs» and «
fake reviews».
After
reviewing this Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM Damier Canvas
fake bag I can say that it is a pretty good replica, it is manufactured
with good materials and it imitates very all the logo and markings of the real bag.
Apologies for the delay, I was meant to
review this yesterday, but after I dropped a couple of hints on Twitter @ 30dates about how well the date
with the
Fake Pimpernel was going, I had too many demands for the date write - up, so decided to prioritise that post!
Unlike other dating websites that are filled
with fake profiles, Full
Review»
Most of them are from the USA, and if you live there as well, get ready to enter the whole new world of amazing dating
reviews and it is always a good thing to mention that there are free sites for dating as well, but if you are looking for the real deal, it is always a better solution to pay since that means that you are going to be chatting
with the real people and not
with fake ones.
Unlike other so - called
review sites that pretty much give any
fake dating site a thumbs - up we are unbiased and we give you honest
reviews backed up
with irrefutable evidence.
Our website is littered
with hundreds of
reviews and the number one way that these
fake dating sites trick you is by building an army of pseudo (
fake) profiles.
Marriage Not Dating — Refusing to go along
with his family's wishes to get married, Kong Ki Tae brings home a
fake Marriage, Not Dating Information, Marriage, Not Dating
Reviews, Synonyms: Not Dating, Marriage; Anticipate Marriage; Gyeolhoneul Gidaehae; Marriage Without
I used a
fake name for this
review but I truly couldn't agree
with you more.
, Eli Roth to Produce Horror Movie Based on
Fake Trailer, Oscar Shortlist for Best Documentary Feature Announced 19:50 —
Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 52:40 — Trailer Trash: Green Lantern, The Green Hornet, Your Highness, Cowboys & Aliens 1:06:36 — Other Stuff We Watched: Catfish, We Live in Public, Kisses, The Losers, Conan, Children Shouldn't Play
with Dead Things, The Night of the Hunter, Toy Story 3, The Larry Sanders Show 1:34:00 — Junk Mail: Quidditch World Cup, Movies Overshadowed by Publicity Stunts, My Winnipeg, Movies Too Sad to Watch a Second Time, Spielberg and Tintin, Where is Chian?
And I became very disenchanted
with not only the
fake reviews, but how the products were shipped.
If you keep up
with indie publishing news, you may have come across news of Amazon suing four companies that sell
fake, positive
reviews.
The site is for readers, however, competitive authors (under
fake names), others
with an economic interest in the promotion of specific authors over others, and people who just want to «best» someone else all pile on authors — and those
reviews are used by READERS to make purchase decisions.
Yes, there were problems
with pirates selling
fake brand name merchandise, but customer
reviews and refunds helped identify and solve problems.
I think a better way of dealing
with the ability to
fake reviews or rig them is to read the excerpt on Amazon — the Look Inside.
As you said, «I think a better way of dealing
with the ability to
fake reviews or rig them is to read the excerpt on Amazon — the Look Inside.
Pajiba notes that the Amazon and Goodreads
reviews for the book are also deeply questionable, inconsistent
with usual
reviewing patterns and highly likely to be
fake.
Goodreads is based on
fake ratings and
reviews, it's API is corrupt and defrauds consumers
with false data about books which in turn has a negative impact on sales and search placement.
The decline overall in self - published titles is welcome for obvious reasons * and, that individual self - published writers are selling slightly more copies may indicate that legitimate marketing methods (that do not flood uninterested parties
with unwelcome messages, that do reach target audiences and which do not contain pointless emphasis on
fake / purchased
reviews or bloated, meaningless «awards» rather than pertinent and honest content) are beginning to surface in this sub-culture.
The site is referring to
fake reviews that were left strictly due to the author's political affiliation rather than anything to do
with the book.
But it begs the question: If a minor albeit prolific author like me who garners only a few
reviews (if that) per book can be labeled as inviting
fake reviews (I don't), how harmful could Amazon's (and ReviewMeta's and Fakespot's) bovine excrement algorithms be to authors
with hundreds of
reviews?
One tip - off to
fake reviews is when a book has a large number of five - star
reviews coupled
with an extremely low sales - rank, or no sales rank at all.
But what about all the «
fake» Amazon book
reviews penned by authors» competitors and those
with an axe to grind —
reviews intended to damage the rating of a book?
The post ends
with a list of authors who they claim have each purchased in excess of 500
fake reviews using the site fiverr.com.