Spotting the fakes among the five-star reviews
Clip: 1/19/2015 | 9m 30s
Spotting the fakes among the five-star reviews
Online reviews of businesses, from your corner coffee shop to your airport cab ride, are now ubiquitous. But fraudulent consumer reviews are also on the rise. Special correspondent Jackie Judd meets a fake review writer, as well as the people who are working to crackdown on reviewers for hire.
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Spotting the fakes among the five-star reviews
Clip: 1/19/2015 | 9m 30s
Online reviews of businesses, from your corner coffee shop to your airport cab ride, are now ubiquitous. But fraudulent consumer reviews are also on the rise. Special correspondent Jackie Judd meets a fake review writer, as well as the people who are working to crackdown on reviewers for hire.
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