Google Places Negative Review Spam Rampant ? Google Needs to be Accountable for Cases

[Google Places Blogger]

Certain types of negative review spam (actually I want to call it FRAUD) could be easily nipped in the bud by Google's algo. It frustrates me to no end that businesses have to deal with issues like this. In this case it appears to me that a company is paying mechanical turks or other cheap labor to post THOUSANDS of fake negative reviews for HUNDREDS of moving companies all over the US. I think if this company is caught they should be sued. This is criminal!

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[janellelk]

We had this happen to us!! It was completely frustrating. They did this weird google user profile loop too.. so a profile was masked by another one. Maddening!