Google Files Lawsuit Over Fake Review Scams by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 16, 2023 Google has filed a lawsuit to discourage scammers from posting fake businesses and fake reviews using Google Maps and Business Profiles. The defendants abused Google products to create fake online listings for businesses that do not exist and increase their online … Continue reading Google Files Lawsuit Over Fake Review Scams
Amazon Leads In Fake Reviews As Consumer Trust Continues To Erode by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, May 12, 2023 Consumers are concerned about fake reviews across all ecommerce sites, but one site in particular remains high. A recent survey of 13,000 consumers from PowerReviews — How Fake Reviews Destroy Consumer Trust – and How Brands and … Continue reading Amazon Leads In Fake Reviews As Consumer Trust Continues To Erode
By Chris Morris November 10, 2022 People warned Elon Musk this was going to happen. The launch of Twitter’s $8 per month paid-for verification, said skeptics, would lead to a tsunami of spoof accounts—and it appears those concerns are coming true. Despite Musk’s claims that the pay system would “defeat the bots and trolls,” … Continue reading Fake ‘verified’ accounts explode across Twitter
FTC Wants Platforms To Crack Down On Fake Reviews by Wendy Davis , Staff Writer @wendyndavis, September 15, 2022 The Federal Trade Commission has tried to curb fake reviews online since at least 2009, when it issued guidance stating that people who posted endorsements should disclose any relationship with the company being reviewed. In subsequent years, … Continue reading FTC Wants Platforms To Crack Down On Fake Reviews
By Clint Rainey September 07, 2022 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is ordering Credit Karma, the free personal-credit monitoring site, to pay $3 million to users who received “false ‘pre-approved’ credit card offers” that ended up hurting their credit scores. The agency filed a complaint alleging that from February 2018 to April 2021, Credit … Continue reading Credit Karma might owe you money over fake ‘pre-approved’ card offers: Here’s how to find out
Twitter sues Elon Musk for attempting to back out of $44 billion buyout deal The suit sets the stage for a lengthy legal battle. I. Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Andrew Kelly / reuters Twitter is suing Elon Musk to force the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company. … Continue reading Elon Musk accuses Twitter of fraud for hiding real number of fake accounts
By Chris Morris July 19, 2022 Flooded with fake and misleading reviews on many of its products, Amazon is going on the offensive, filing suit against the administrators of what it says are over 10,000 Facebook groups that are used to manage those reviews and incentivize people to post them. In a suit … Continue reading Inside the thriving business of writing fake Amazon reviews
4% Of Q1 CTV Programmatic Inventory Was ‘Fake’: Report by Karlene Lukovitz @KLmarketdaily, June 28, 2022 In this year’s first quarter, 4.43% of all CTV programmatic marketplace ad calls were for fake content — including screensaver channels, photo widgets, games and mobile pretending to be CTV streaming content. That’s according to the first CTV benchmarks report from contextual and brand … Continue reading 4% Of Q1 CTV Programmatic Inventory Was Fake: Benchmarks Report
Nearly a third of retail sites’ organic and direct traffic is from bots and fake users. Constantine von Hoffman on June 2, 2022 The ad fraud business is booming, according to two new studies, which found increases in both fraud attempts and fake traffic. Some 17% of all traffic from affiliate programs is fake, according … Continue reading Studies find big increases in ad fraud attempts and fake traffic
Jack Dorsey’s ‘first tweet’ NFT sells for $2.9 million Dorsey donated the money to charity. K. Bell @karissabe March 22nd, 2021 Toby Melville / Reuters Fifteen years after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent the world’s first tweet, the message has sold for nearly $3 million as an NFT. The winning bid came from Sina Estavi, … Continue reading NFT marketplace halts most transactions due to proliferation of fake and plagiarized tokens
