>“Writing fake reviews has always been fraud, but this is the first time we’ve seen someone sent to jail as a result,” said Brad Young, vice president, associat

>“Writing fake reviews has always been fraud, but this is the first time we’ve seen someone sent to jail as a result,” said Brad Young, vice president, associate general counsel at TripAdvisor, in a statement. I don't get this. Writing a fake review doesn't seem like fraud to me. What seems like fraud is a company passing off a fake review as it is legit. Which would mean that the company that paid for the fake review should be the one in legal trouble not the person writing the fake review. Edit: I should clarify while leaving my original comment up. I phrased this poorly. What I should say is why is only the company who wrote the reviews being punished instead of the both the company who wrote the review AND the company that paid for the fraudulent review in the first place?