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Re:Amazon Review Scam by kirillzubovsky on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:58PM (#25042695)
What if friends of these fake review circles get themselves hired into Amazon to be on the teams that validate the reviews? It is possible that Amazon is so big, they would not detect this problem.

You could be a good corporate drone and do your job for 97% of the time, and in 3% of the cases delete bad reviews for your friends. Unless someone is doing really great statistical analysis, this could fly under the radar for a very long time.

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Re:Amazon Review Scam by probably_wrong on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:26AM (#25043548)
I think it's possible. There was a case back in September [1] where six "third-party sellers consultant" were charged with allegedly bribing up to ten Amazon employees to restore deleted items.

Of course, those people were caught and that goes against the "not detect this problem" part. But if you were to scale down this operation from 16 people down to just one or two, it seems like it could work.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-marketplace-fraud-scheme...

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Re:Amazon Review Scam by hahajk on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:05AM (#25044634)
> Of course, those people were caught and that goes against the "not detect this problem" part.

We just never heard about the ones that weren’t caught ;)

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