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I’m clueless about mobile stores and reviews. How does such an app get so many positive (obviously fake) reviews?

• squeaky-clean 6y ago
  It's really easy to find services like this just by googling the right thing. I've never used one, but just from a quick search $630 can get you 200 five-star reviews. I don't know if the site I found will let you repeatedly purchase for even more reviews, but several of these sites came up when I googled so it would also be pretty easy to just use 5 different fake review sites to get up to 1000 fake reviews. If the price is consistent across them, that means 1000 reviews costs about $3.1k. Expensive, but it apparently only takes 1 tricked user to become a profitable scam. Not saying a similar scam would not have fooled me, as I'm looking at the screenshot in the article with the knowledge that it's a scam, so it's an unfair comparison. However the first thing that immediately stands out to me is there are no 2,3,4 star reviews on this app. The reviewer comments are also very generic and have many grammatical errors in each featured one in the screenshot, and the featured reviews are all from Sept 1.
• rasz 6y ago
  Want a $1? download and like 5 of our apps! works great in countries with $1/hr wages.