The move, the latest in the struggle to kick Amazon fakes off the story, cleaned up the site of some of the stores that paid for reviews and had other terms of service violations. This year, Amazon closed 3,000 Chinese online merchant accounts on its platform, kicking about 600 Chinese brands off its huge platform. Amazon bans fake sellers in the thousands With just these three companies out of the ecosystem, Amazon took out nearly 350,000 people who were writing fake Amazon reviews, in countries like the US, UK, Germany and France. Some of the largest fake review brokers, Fivestar Marketing, Matronex, and AppSally found themselves in hot water.Īccording to Amazon, sites like AppSally was selling fake reviews for just $20 and encouraging fraudulent sellers to send empty boxes to the people writing the fake reviews, to go around Amazon’s checks. In February 2022, Amazon took legal action against three review mills, which it called “Fake review brokers” and accused of manipulating their customers.

Let’s see what’s happening with Amazon and a few helpful tips to avoid Amazon fakes.įake Amazon Reviews Are Sold In Bulk With An Average Of Seven Dollars Per Review They’re taking steps to fight this but, until they do, you should know how to protect yourself online.

With users having to wade through endless listings of questionable goods and a lot of the products sold being fakes, Amazon has a serious problem with its fakes.

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