Amazon has filed its first ever lawsuit against four websites that sold fake reviews. They are cracking down on these purchased, misleading reviews sold by buyazonreviews, buyamazonreviews, bayreviews and buyreviewsnow. Thankfully, it was only across a few product pages – which were removed promptly.
"While small in number, these reviews threaten to undermine the trust that customers, and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers, place in Amazon, thereby tarnishing Amazon's brand," the suit says.
"Amazon strictly prohibits any attempt to manipulate customer reviews and actively polices its website to remove false, misleading, and inauthentic reviews."
According to The Next Web and Geekwire,
The suit was filed on Wednesday in King County Superior Court, and accuses Jay Gentile of California (operator of the fake websites) of false advertisement, trademark infringement and violations of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and Washington Consumer Protection Act.
