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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by masonic on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:57PM (#19670775) 

  Per seller stickers
... which themselves would quickly be counterfeited.
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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by krrrh on Monday April 15, 2019 @11:29PM (#19670911)
Amazon could generate unique per unit tokens for vendors to sticker next to the SKU stickers they already require. Totally traceable to a vendor if there is a problem, and not easy to counterfeit.

This is a beginner programming exercise. They have no excuse for not implementing basic safeguards while they spend billions on AI research.

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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by tracker1 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @01:14PM (#19675404)
Amazon applies said vendor stickers when they receive stock from a vendor for inventory.

If Amazon receives product with vendor stickers already attached, they get rejected permanently.

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