Adelyn Horton emailed me. The name is not significant. The company she represented was vague. She had some special pricing she needed to tell me about. Her monthly service was $249, but if I made a 12 month commitment she could make it $149 per month. She could raise my Google, Facebook, BBB review scores. I suppose we all want to be 5.0 Stars. I hang around in the mid 4’s. While I’ve been approached by companies who could try and get rid of my bad reviews…. you know the customers who give me low rankings when it rains.
Adelyn had a different angle, she promised ten 5 Star reviews every month. Grade school math taught me the law of averages. 100+ 5 star reviews was certainly going to raise my score. That would in turn raise my moral. Which would most certainly raise my business. Which has to raise ones ego, you get the point. She doesn’t have to be a Silicon Valley tech genius, she simply needs to create hundreds of fake Gmail profiles. Log in, write a glowing review, switch to another profile, write a glowing review, and so on. Raine S gave me 5 stars, Bert T gave me 5 stars, Kiradech R gave me 5 stars. Maybe you are siting there thinking…is this really happening? Am I reading these kind of reviews before buying the barbell set, the frying pan, or the vitamin loaded gummies. Yeah, you are.
Prisoners in jail spend most of their day thinking about how to get out. Though Google intended to create something good, there are always people thinking about how to take advantage of the system. Personally, I’m really off reviews. Leave a good one, leave a bad one, no one can be sure if it’s a person or Adelyn.
