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Fergus M.

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1 Review by Fergus

  • Scamadviser

8/12/23

There's a lot of bogus reviews on this platform and Trustpilot, some reviewing the wrong products or service (their top positive review is about lubricants, not scam identification), some which look like they are generated by bots, and some (at least in fairness) where people are just negatively reviewing this website because they fell prey to a scam themselves. However, dig a bit deeper into the negative reviews and you'll see a pattern increasingly emerging. Go onto Trustpilot, select the list of 1-star reviews and you'll see that these are often the most coherently written - competent, articulate, legitimate business owners complaining because they have been wrongly listed. The number appears to be increasing at the moment, while the site leans too heavily on flawed tech - this last week, there seems to have been a 1-star review every day, most complaining due to the targeting of low-traffic / newly-established websites. This site says they do manual reviews of websites, but that involves handing over personal documents and info which this company does not have the right to own, and at a guess sells on to third parties. They claim they do not ask for any money from these manual reviews, yet they appear to be making money somehow; it requires funds to set up and maintain such a large website and technological system, so it must be financially viable at some level of the operation. You have to wonder what benefits the staff of this company get from this operation; it can't just be the 'feel good factor'.

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Fergus M.'s review of Scamadviser earned 2 Very Helpful votes

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