Fraudulent Reviews
Reviews of a product or service from users that never actually used it. These are often solicited by the proprietor of the product or service, who contracts out positive reviews, “reviews-for-hire”. Some companies are attempting to tackle this problem by warning users that not all reviews are genuine.
Read more about this topic: Social Networking Spam
Famous quotes containing the words fraudulent and/or reviews:
“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)