The power of fake reviews - a tale from r/offmychest

[pbarnhart]

A very insightful post on Reddit by a review scammer. Interesting to read it from their point of view.

Used to work for my cousin's restaurant and did an entire fake review campaign to make it look like the best. They went from failing to the biggest in the area.

Check the rest of the story on Reddit

 

[Phil Rozek]

Thanks, Phil. Interesting read, but sad. The "last-ditch" part is (a little) understandable. The part about hurting competitors' reputations isn't. I'm sure karma will catch up with that guy.

 

[Tim Colling]

Wow. I wonder whether it is true, and I also wonder how much it exaggerates what really happened and what the outcome was.

 

[Eric Rohrback]

If only we knew what the restaurant was, it would be an interesting study...

 

[dscweb]

Good point Tim. The Reddit writer said, "I've had many years of making shit up online for fun. " So is this another made-up story?

It smells as if some of it is true.

How much? Who knows?