Posts Tagged &#8216;Daily Mail&#8217;

Credits: The Daily Mail, By Antonia Hoyle, 17 February 2016 Would you dare let a STRANGER sleep in your bed? Renting out your home on Airbnb is the latest middle-class wheeze. But you could also be in for a nasty surprise… ‘The crooks exploit a weak link in what should be a secure system,’ explains Chris […]

KwikChex mention in Daily Mail article regarding online reviews

19th October 2015

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Credits: Mail Online By: Tom Rawstorne Disturbing proof the online review that made you book your holiday may be FAKE: Investigation reveals an entire industry is dedicated to generating bogus appraisals for cash ‘If you want to give a good impression or mislead consumers into trusting you, the best way to do it is to […]

Investigators suspect fraudster still targeting elderly for scams – but, incredibly, say they can’t afford to prosecute after savage cuts

Credits: Daily Mail By: Sarah Bridge Mail on Sunday article about serial timeshare fraud offender Frank Madden reveals problems Trading Standards face – and includes how KwikChex is cooperating with them to assist investigations and prosecutions. All consumer reports to KwikChex and the Timeshare Task Force are also made available to the relevant authorities regardless […]

Google reaches out-of-court settlement in UK defamation case

25th November 2014

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Credits: Mail Online Reporting by Liisa Tuhkanen; Editing by Tom Heneghan Google Inc said on Monday it had reached a settlement with a British businessman over defamatory postings in its search results describing him as a pedophile, a murderer and a money-launderer. Above excerpts and read the full article on www.dailymail.co.uk

More than SIX THOUSAND people have their pasts erased from Google

13th October 2014

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Credits: Mail Online By: Thomas Burrows * 18,304 requests from Britons to remove links to more than 60,000 URLs * UK has third highest number of requests, behind France and Germany * EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ allows EU citizens to ask for links to be removed from Google search results * Google has published […]

Hotel’s Yelp rating plummets to ONE star after it’s revealed they charge wedding couples $500 for any guest that leaves a negative review

11th August 2014

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Credits: Mail Online By: Alexandra Klausner * The Union Street Guest House in Hudson, NY doesn’t allow negative Yelp reviews for wedding guests * Of the 572 Yelp reviews online, 554 of them were posted on Monday after media outlets drew attention to the hotel’s policy * Please know that despite the fact that wedding […]

Mail On Sunday reports on KwikChex role in Timeshare Task Force

11th August 2014

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Credits: Mail on Sunday By: Sarah Bridge Fears of bigger bills for timeshare owners stall EU’s war on rogue firms * Many timeshare owners now desperate to quit unwanted properties * Some contracts continue after death, with costs passing to children * EU plan to clean up industry on hold after claims it might make […]

HK court: Tycoon can sue Google over autocomplete

7th August 2014

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Credits: Mail Online By: Associated Press A court has ruled that a Hong Kong tycoon can sue Google over its autocomplete results suggesting he has links to organized crime. In a judgment released Wednesday, the court dismissed the Internet search giant’s objections to tycoon Albert Yeung’s defamation lawsuit. Above excerpts and read the full article […]

Businessman who has submitted 512 TripAdvisor reviews in one year accused of blackmailing a restaurant into giving him a free meal by threatening it with poor scores

23rd July 2014

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Credits: Mail Online By: Lizzie Edmonds * Chris Hobson, 46, who wrote 512 reviews in 2013, is site’s ‘top reviewer’ * But he is now facing legal action over one of his scathing critiques * Director of Double Barrel Steakhouse and Grill claims his words are libelous * Sarah Bird says man threatened poor score […]

TripAdvisor user sued for posting scathing review accusing Oregon hotel’s rooms of being ‘nasty’ and staff being ‘high or drunk’

27th May 2014

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Credits: Mail Online By: Ted Thornhill * TripAdvisor user left review of Lincoln City hotel it’s claimed is ‘malicious’ * ’12Kelly’ wrote that some staff at The Ashley Inn ‘were high or drunk’ * The anonymous user also alleged that the owner smoked drugs * At the time of writing 158 reviews of the hotel […]

‘Give us free meals or I’ll put a bad review on TripAdvisor’: Anger at blackmailers using online ratings website to extort free rooms and dinners from hotels and restaurants

14th May 2014

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Credits: Mail Oneline By: Sam Webb * Restaurants and hotels report rise in diners dropping website’s name * They threaten to post negative review if they don’t get free food or wine * One steak house owner says alarming trend ‘just isn’t right’ Above excerpts and read the full article on www.dailymail.co.uk/

Don’t trust online reviews! A fifth are left by people who have NEVER tried the product

27th January 2014

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Credits: Mail Online By: Victoria Woollaston * More than a fifth of Americans have reviewed a product they’ve never used * This rises to almost a third of parents with children under 18 * The majority (32%) claimed they did so simply because ‘they felt like it’ * While 22% admitted they just didn’t like […]

Amazon deletes thousands of obviously fake book reviews to the anger of several authors

4th January 2013

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Credits: Mail Online By Damian Ghigliotty * Writers say thousands of mostly positive book reviews have been deleted from the online shopping site in recent months * Amazon will not disclose how many reviews it has erased * Several writers have voiced frustrations with the move * Others are pushing for more vetting of book reviews Amazon […]

‘Dear staff. We could do with some positive comments’: Hotel boss is caught telling his workers to post fake reviews on TripAdvisor

12th October 2012

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Credits: Mail Online By Emily Allen General manager Frank Long vowed to ‘deny everything’ if details of the scam emerged One review said it was the ‘friendliest airport hotel ever’ and made special reference to the staff “A hotel boss ordered his staff to write bogus reviews of his hotel after it had a series […]

An end to internet trolls? You must be joking!

7th July 2012

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Credits: Mail Online By: Donal Blaney ‘The spin doctors at 10 Downing Street have done well today. The media has bought – hook, line and sinker – the spin that the Defamation Bill will mean an end to the scourge of internet trolls.’ Above excerpts and read the full article on www.dailymail.co.uk

TripAdvisor removes ‘reviews you can trust’ slogan after ASA investigation is launched

13th September 2011

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Credits: The Mail Online By: Travelmail Reporter “TripAdvisor has removed the slogan ‘reviews you can trust’ from its website, replacing it with the phrase ‘reviews from our community’.” “The website is currently being investigated by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) over allegations that fake reviews have been posted on the site.” Above excerpt and full […]

“Hotels prepare to do battle in court with TripAdvisor over reviews”

11th September 2010

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