Wednesday, July 22, 2015

SEO - Marketing - Advertising

9:05 PM Posted by ScrollCash

SEO - Marketing - Advertising

Exposing-Fake-Google-Accounts-and-Fake-Google-Reviews

Posted: 22 Jul 2015 08:42 PM PDT

I have been researching and investigating fake Google accounts and fake Google reviews the last few months. Please check back as I will be updating this article often.

I wrote another article that I hope you read about all types of fake reviews from multiple companies, e.g. Yelp, Amazon, Google, etc.

This article is focused only on Google. If you read my previous article then you understand why this is so important and how this topic negatively affects many millions of people. In this article I am going to use a case study and a real life example.

I own a software product that is sold in the Google Chrome store. It is an online password manager and it has only been in the Google Chrome store for less than a year (press release), so every review is very important at this stage. We have all 4 and 5 star reviews except for one "fake 1 star Google review" from a person named Marty Topping.
Now at first you should ask how do I know it is a fake Google review?
Because what this Marty Topping claimed in his fake and false Google review is technically impossible. Note to fake negative review writers, if you do not want to be exposed at least come up with a fake claim that is believable.
Then we tried to contact this person who only has one review on Google plus and furthermore uses a fake business address.
If you try to email the company clockwisemediagroup.com, guess what, their email does not work.

So they use a fake business address, have a fake website with pictures of people and even with people and their fake families. You phone their company and all you receive is a voice mail of a person named Tracy, who when we check her background she mentions a totally different company she works for on LinkedIn.
If you look at the website clockwisemediagroup.com the content on this site is from 2008.

So is Marty Topping even a real person?
If yes, then why did he write this fake review?
Did someone hire him to write fake Google reviews?
Or is this part of a bigger fake Google account and fake Google review world-wide organization?

I am not sure yet.
If it is bigger, than this Marty Topping name is used in the "who is" information for the domain registration.
I am wondering now if this fake Google account and fake Google review is just one of many used by a company that buys and uses old websites so they have many fake Google accounts that are long aged and associated with old domain names.
I am currently in the process of investigating this further and will report my findings on a daily basis.

Do I blame Google for this?
YES I do blame Google also.
I mean who allowed this person and all the many hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of other fake Google accounts and fake Google reviews to be online?