Scammers Are Trying To Extort Chicago Restaurants With ‘Bomb’ Of Fake Negative Reviews
Scammers Are Trying To Extort Chicago Restaurants With ‘Bomb’ Of Fake Negative Reviews
by optiplex9000
5 Comments
_-Cleon-_
This is new?
I stopped bothering with online reviews years ago precisely because so many of them were fake.
Mediocre_Breakfast34
Lol this happens all the time
itsam
scammers or restaurant review sites? wasn’t foursquare or yelp found to be leaving negative reviews like 10 years ago so you would pay them to remove them
GoatBnB
Stay with me here….
The article states, “The review bombs also come at a time when many local, mainstream news publications have cut their full-time food critics or restaurant coverage. That leaves restaurants, already operating on thin margins, competing for attention from social media influencers, Singh said.”
I’m probably going to get downvoted to hell for this, but what are the chances of struggling places hiring someone/doing this to themselves to get press, like in the linked article?
mrbooze
> As a result, Alpana’s score on Google dropped from a 4.5 rating to a 4.1, “a death blow for restaurants,” Singh told Block Club.
Is a 4.1 rating really a “death blow”? Do people refuse to eat anywhere less than a 4.5? I consider anything 4+ to be presumed solid, 3+ basically good. (Like literally for me a 3 out of 5 review means “I liked it”)
5 Comments
This is new?
I stopped bothering with online reviews years ago precisely because so many of them were fake.
Lol this happens all the time
scammers or restaurant review sites? wasn’t foursquare or yelp found to be leaving negative reviews like 10 years ago so you would pay them to remove them
Stay with me here….
The article states, “The review bombs also come at a time when many local, mainstream news publications have cut their full-time food critics or restaurant coverage. That leaves restaurants, already operating on thin margins, competing for attention from social media influencers, Singh said.”
I’m probably going to get downvoted to hell for this, but what are the chances of struggling places hiring someone/doing this to themselves to get press, like in the linked article?
> As a result, Alpana’s score on Google dropped from a 4.5 rating to a 4.1, “a death blow for restaurants,” Singh told Block Club.
Is a 4.1 rating really a “death blow”? Do people refuse to eat anywhere less than a 4.5? I consider anything 4+ to be presumed solid, 3+ basically good. (Like literally for me a 3 out of 5 review means “I liked it”)