Fake Paid Reviews on Trustpilot – Beware of @247workonly

[albon]

Hello everyone,

I recently noticed that this user > @247workonly, is promoting a new service titled "TRUSTPILOT Reviews @ US$4 ONLY: Pay AFTER reviews are live."



I advise everyone to avoid this service for the following reasons:

1- This service for generating fake reviews may be used to mislead investors into thinking they are dealing with a legitimate entity based on these reviews, while the seller's real goal is simply to collect money for the service.

2- There is no guarantee that these reviews will remain active in the future as reviews detected as fake may be removed by Trustpilot and could harm the company’s reputation. It's also worth noting that this service violates Trustpilot's policies, which require reviews to be genuine and not purchased or written by fake/multiple accounts. For more details, see Trustpilot’s guidelines: https://legal.trustpilot.com/for-reviewers/guidelines-for-reviewers



3- This user’s account is Newbie, and they created a self-moderated topic for their service. This means they will moderate their topic and may delete any posts they don't like. Additionally, no previous members have used or tried their service, which increases the risk.

Finally, before purchasing any service on the forum, you should always use escrow service provided by trusted members. It's best to avoid services that violate any platform’s policies and to deal only with members who have a good reputation on the forum.

Stay safe.

[Charles-Tim]

3- This user’s account is Newbie, and they created a self-moderated topic for their service. This means they will moderate their topic and may delete any posts they don't like. Additionally, no previous members have used or tried their service, which increases the risk.

I posted there almotimmediately the user posted that topic.

Only what I am waiting for since morning is a PM that my post has been deleted by the person that created the topic. If that happened, I will give the user a negative feedback because he wants to give fake review on Trustpilot for people that paid him or because I mentioned people to use escrow which he may not like for him not to successfully complete his exit scam.

[GxSTxV]

Thank for the warning and reminding people who are interested or wanting to purchase such services that even Trustpilot is against Fake reviews. Services like that are counted as cheating besides being useless if your platform or product is not worthy.
However, I can see that so many known platforms are filled with these fake reviews on Trustpilot to the point where I avoid checking their reviews because of that. I think it’s not only me who would agree on this matter.

People should be aware on both sides, using escrow before dealing with new members and also the law side of such services when it goes against the platform terms and rules.

[Yaunfitda]

Thank for the warning and reminding people who are interested or wanting to purchase such services that even Trustpilot is against Fake reviews. Services like that are counted as cheating besides being useless if your platform or product is not worthy.
However, I can see that so many known platforms are filled with these fake reviews on Trustpilot to the point where I avoid checking their reviews because of that. I think it’s not only me who would agree on this matter.

People should be aware on both sides, using escrow before dealing with new members and also the law side of such services when it goes against the platform terms and rules.

I guess it's a open secret that Trust Pilot reviews can be bought and that's why we shouldn't be bothering ourselves reading their reviews. Maybe in the beginning of their services they used to get a lot of reputation, but then someone exposes their practice and so they were caught cheating. So good catch by the OP and the next time we search for reviews then don't go with Trustpilot. I'm not sure though if there are services like this that can be trusted, just "take everything with a grain of salt".

[aioc]

3- This user’s account is Newbie, and they created a self-moderated topic for their service. This means they will moderate their topic and may delete any posts they don't like. Additionally, no previous members have used or tried their service, which increases the risk.

I posted there almotimmediately the user posted that topic.

Only what I am waiting for since morning is a PM that my post has been deleted by the person that created the topic. If that happened, I will give the user a negative feedback because he wants to give fake review on Trustpilot for people that paid him or because I mentioned people to use escrow which he may not like for him not to successfully complete his exit scam.

Surprisingly, he hasn't done that yet; let's see in the next 24 hours —there's a possibility he will, because he knows how to use the forum's features.
That kind of service is why TrustPilot should not be trusted 100%. People are using and exploiting this platform to make money. TrustPilot should have a detection system to trace fake reviews, such as IP address detection, but scammers can use a VPN; they should also have a way to weed out fake reviews.

[Ronsbit]

Hello everyone,

I recently noticed that this user > @247workonly, is promoting a new service titled "TRUSTPILOT Reviews @ US$4 ONLY: Pay AFTER reviews are live."



I advise everyone to avoid this service for the following reasons:

1- This service for generating fake reviews may be used to mislead investors into thinking they are dealing with a legitimate entity based on these reviews, while the seller's real goal is simply to collect money for the service.

2- There is no guarantee that these reviews will remain active in the future as reviews detected as fake may be removed by Trustpilot and could harm the company’s reputation. It's also worth noting that this service violates Trustpilot's policies, which require reviews to be genuine and not purchased or written by fake/multiple accounts. For more details, see Trustpilot’s guidelines: https://legal.trustpilot.com/for-reviewers/guidelines-for-reviewers



3- This user’s account is Newbie, and they created a self-moderated topic for their service. This means they will moderate their topic and may delete any posts they don't like. Additionally, no previous members have used or tried their service, which increases the risk.

Finally, before purchasing any service on the forum, you should always use escrow service provided by trusted members. It's best to avoid services that violate any platform’s policies and to deal only with members who have a good reputation on the forum.

Stay safe.

If he has 1 thousand accounts, how does he get to verify them all because the last time I checked, it took much time to get verified after series of decline. So how could he have been able to get them all verified because only verified account can be able to do a review and this means that his reviews are all fake as he does not really have a first hand experience and knowledge about the product and service he is reviewing thereby putting prospective customers in danger because they would believe what they read and because the review is on a reliable review sites that has long been in existence.
This is how people fall in problem of being scammed because of all these Dave reviews they encounter on review websites thinking what they are reading are all genuine and not knowing that they are all fake and they patronise such vendor and begin to complain of their experience and how they are being treated. I would suggest that such review account here is not taken seriously here.

[examplens]

I spent many years on this forum, and there were always offers to buy fake reviews. I am sure that there are currently other similar active services on the forum. Some attract attention, some don't.. We cannot deal with this because it is not only on the Bitcointalk forum, and it is a general problem on all similar platforms like Trustpilot, Google reviews, etc...

The only two options we have here are zero tolerance (it worked with mixers), or deleting all such posts or leaving them as is.

Only what I am waiting for since morning is a PM that my post has been deleted by the person that created the topic. If that happened, I will give the user a negative feedback because he wants to give fake review on Trustpilot for people that paid him or because I mentioned people to use escrow which he may not like for him not to successfully complete his exit scam.

Even 10 negative tags mean nothing here. A newbie account with 4 posts is insignificant, and it takes very little time to create a new one like that. Someone who decided to buy reviews from him, the negative tag will certainly not deter him from doing so.

[Shishir99]

I posted there almotimmediately the user posted that topic.

Only what I am waiting for since morning is a PM that my post has been deleted by the person that created the topic. If that happened, I will give the user a negative feedback because he wants to give fake review on Trustpilot for people that paid him or because I mentioned people to use escrow which he may not like for him not to successfully complete his exit scam.

I saw the thread as well, but did not post anything there. Since he is running an unethical service that could lead people to financial damage, the DT members should start leaving negative feedback on his profile without hesitation. As for a self-moderated thread, it is known that scammers often utilise this feature to remove any negative comments from their thread. It took me a long time to learn how to create a self-moderated thread. However, these new accounts know how to make a self-moderated thread. I am sure they had more accounts here, which were probably tagged already.