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The FTC recently proposed a formal ban on fake reviews with penalties of up to $50,000 for businesses caught buying, selling or manipulating online reviews. Yelp has said it supports such a rule ...
Amazon claimed to cease more than 200 million fake reviews in 2020. In 2021, Yelp reported over 950 “suspicious groups, posts, or individuals” were engaging in “deceptive review practices ...
The FTC has also investigated similar cases against the supplement maker The Bountiful Company for “review hijacking” its products’ reviews and ratings on Amazon that ended with a $600,000 ...
As Vice President of Legal, Trust & Safety Aaron Schur explained, “We do make it easy for businesses as well as consumers to flag reviews. Every piece of content that’s flagged in that way ...
Now Yelp says the FTC has closed its investigation into Yelp’s business practices and decided not to take action. In a blog post, the company stated: “The FTC looked into our recommendation ...
The mystery behind these creepy 'Unknown' spam calls often begins with data breaches or information leaks. Scammers obtain partial information from various sources, including public records ...
The FCC says that US consumers receive 350,000 unwanted calls every three minutes, and of those calls, a whopping 47 percent are illegal scams. Unwanted robocalls aren't just an annoyance; they ...
Brushing (e-commerce) In e-commerce, brushing, also called "review brushing", [1] is a deceitful technique sometimes used in e-commerce to boost a seller's ratings by creating fake orders, [2][3][4][5] which are either shipped to an accomplice or to an unsuspecting member of the public. Most e-commerce sites rate sellers by multiple criteria ...