In addition to Club Ki-Fair's model - buy a product, prove you reviewed it and get a refund on PayPal - vendors will sometimes send along information to customers with their purchases about how to receive gift cards in return for reviews. (The company didn't respond to a request for comment about the disappearance of the listings after this article was published.) I didn't review any products or accept any refunds.Īfter this story was published, the Facebook group disappeared from the social media site, and products from Fairywill, Kipozi and Sboly - all brands promoted on the group page or by its administrators on their personal pages - were no longer listed on Amazon. ![]() Based on screenshots I saw, it's clear that an Amazon review was required for a refund. I saw offers of products on the group and instructions for getting refunds on group administrators' personal Facebook accounts. I witnessed it after getting accepted into Club Ki-Fair, which I monitored for several weeks. "Some use social media services on their own in other cases, they hire a third-party service provider to perpetrate this activity on their behalf."Īmazon avoided naming any social media companies, but I found the activity easily on Facebook. ![]() "We have seen an increasing trend of bad actors attempting to solicit fake reviews outside Amazon, particularly via social media services," the blog post read.
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