mo4ch:>Extent of Amazon review scamming revealed: hacked accounts posting 2,500 times | Mo4ch News

Amazon sellers are using hacked accounts to award themselves five-star ratings, with one hijacked user posting as many as 2,500 bogus reviews, a consumer watchdog has found, urging regulators to act.Legitimate accounts are being hijacked to post fake reviews – sometimes thousands of them, UK consumer watchdog Which? found in an investigation into tricks sellers have been using to evade Amazon’s onsite review police and fraud detection algorithms. Some of the hacked users were told to delete the reviews themselves when they reported the problem to Amazon. Which? is demanding the e-commerce giant deal with the problem – and calling on regulators to make sure it does.Also on rt.comAmazon patents ‘helpful’ surveillance delivery drones that totally don’t spy on your neighbors“If they fail to put more rigorous systems in place, then the [Consumer Markets Authority] must intervene to ensure that fake reviews and other misleading tactics can be stamped out,” Natalie Hitchins, Which? head of h…