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i just went in to their maps listing and suggested an edit, then chose "doesn't exist here". so, hopefully that might help lol

are they based in the US? how long have they been in business? you mind telling us what niche they are in?

dm'd

hmm...interesting. what do you mean if it already exists though? like someone else had already created it and you are just trying to get access? this definitely has to have something to do with their method.

hmm..i wonder if this might be the way they are making all of the fake GMB? somehow the other departments you mentioned are throwing validate by phone only instead of video, so there must be a way to trigger that.

yep, if you check my post history you will see the moving industry in the south east US has been like this all year. i just don't know how they are even doing it.

hijack a GMB listing with established reviews??

its the moving industry getting hit hard in the south east, but i haven't seen the negative review attacks (yet). they are just totally oversaturating the local listings and pump each one with 5 stars daily. each name they use for the listing is just keywords related to moving. i've been...

what industries?

yes, i know :( however, this is on a scale i have never seen before and i have been doing this for a very long time. from what i can gather, this is a major operation and "they" are spending huge amounts of money on whatever this loophole/exploit is they have discovered. my industry's cost per...

brightlocal.com is good and will do this.

i had posted this as a comment in another thread, but figure i would make a thread about it also. we are seeing multiple fake GBP being generated, what seems like daily, with fake 5 star Google reviews in the moving industry through many citys throughout the USA. i know other service industry...

any updates on this? we are now experiencing the same thing in the moving industry in the USA. exact same concept. how are they getting so many Google guaranteed GMB pages? this has drastically increased the cost per lead and has buried our legit business with 100+ legit 5 star reviews. i...