{"id":5251,"date":"2021-05-10T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2021-05-14T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:11:23","slug":"click-farm-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=5251","title":{"rendered":"Click farm on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Click_farm\">Click farm\/fake review is a modern term and a fraud<\/a>: you or a business pay someone to click an ad link or write fake reviews. In Chinese, it&#8217;s called \u5237\u5355. And Amazon had dealt a big blow to such illegal activity recently, according to this Chinese post: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/HlnaojXZOyA51PnHn0whpg\">\u4e9a\u9a6c\u900a\u7a81\u7136\u52a8\u5200!\u767e\u4ebf\u5927\u5356\u5bb6\u8fde\u9505\u7aef\u6389,\u51e0\u5341\u4e07\u4e2d\u5c0f\u5546\u5bb6\u745f\u745f\u53d1\u6296!\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0is about this fake review on Amazon: \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5250 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5498-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a style=\"font-size: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252500326\/Scammers-accidentally-reveal-fake-Amazon-review-data\">Computer Weekly<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">: Scammers accidentally reveal fake Amazon review data<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/scammers-accidentally-expose-amazon-fake-review-data-implicating-over-200000-people-3195000\">IBTimes<\/a>:\u00a0Scammers Accidentally Expose Amazon Fake Review Data, Implicating Over 200,000 People<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is it a continuation of trade war or combating illegal fraudulent activities?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5485.jpg\">Per this Chinese post&#8217; comments<\/a>, it seems a small percentage readers think click farm is, just, \u00a0fine. And <em>if you don&#8217;t do it, you can&#8217;t survive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a horrible environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-2.45.11-PM.png\">I google \u5237\u5355<\/a>, the top one says, it&#8217;s illegal. Upon\u00a0checking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-3.05.24-PM.png\">one of the businesses the above Chinese post claimed<\/a>, Aukey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Aukey\/Aukey\/page\/B4F70606-6B67-46A0-BD18-938B37E59982\">is still active on Amazon.com<\/a>, as of 2021.5.14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-3.01.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-3.01.12-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-3.00.24-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-3.00.24-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-2.53.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-14-at-2.53.57-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click farm\/fake review is a modern term and a fraud: you or a business pay someone to click an ad link or write fake reviews.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=5251\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Click farm on Amazon<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,54,18,85],"class_list":["post-5251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china--","tag-incredible-","tag-things-chinese","tag-us-china","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}