Fraud in Warrior Forum Market Place

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here is a quick update of some of the things we have been working on at Warrior

We are working pretty hard to clean the Market Place and one of the things we have started to do it's to Ban Sellers that try to "play with the system"

Creating multiple accounts....
posting fake reviews
artificially creating interest in the WSO...

All those are factors that wins automatically a ban from the forum and the marketplace

Enjoy the quick video update

#forum #fraud #inwarrior #market #place
  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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    Thanks Gabriel. Nice to know you Guys are keeping WF a place of integrity by weeding out the "scamsters."

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  • Profile picture of the author Raja Kamil
    Cool. This left only genuine seller and feedback.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shilpa Pattnaik
    Hi Gabriel, I just joined this forum and saw your post.
    It is always great to be aware of things well on very start.
    Thank you :-)

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  • Profile picture of the author JasonFulton
    Great step .
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  • Profile picture of the author JasonFulton
    Ok now here is a question:
    I have bought a coaching from a coach months back through another IM forum . Got great success , now i came to know he is here on WF with his sales thread. He asked me for review , I joined the community today to provide review . What to do in this situation? Should i not provide him my honest review even with genuine screenshots?
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    • Profile picture of the author .
      Originally Posted by JasonFulton View Post

      Ok now here is a question:
      I have bought a coaching from a coach months back through another IM forum . Got great success , now i came to know he is here on WF with his sales thread. He asked me for review , I joined the community today to provide review . What to do in this situation? Should i not provide him my honest review even with genuine screenshots?
      Considering you only have 4 posts in this group and you just open an account. I recommend you not to post any review
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      • Profile picture of the author blueonblue
        Originally Posted by Gabriel View Post

        Considering you only have 4 posts in this group and you just open an account. I recommend you not to post any review
        It is obvious that Gabriel does not know who Jason Fulton is. Jason Fulton is a top product creator of many products on Warrior Plus and is often a WPDOD (deal of the day).

        So he is not a scammer. The fact that he asked before he even posted should verify that. I am not an affiliate of his but a defender. Just because he has no record here, does not mean he is a scammer.

        Do some research and look at people on an individual basis.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amit Patel
    Thank you, for all the efforts you and your team is taking to keep this a safe place.

    This will go a long way. I have been to many forums but as far as Internet Marketing is concerned. This is the best.

    Regards,
    Amit
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  • Profile picture of the author Kent Hopkins
    Thanks for being proactive in preventing this type of abuse. Almost as important, I want to thank you for not trusting it to an algorithm but doing it via humans with brains and reasoning. Too much AI with these types of things. Keep up the great work, this is exactly why people love WF.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
    Gabriel, I think this is a good move, but I also think it's of vital importance to lay down rule to those vendors who establish a WSO to solicit and hard sell via PM.

    The product on offer should be clear, as per the new rules which were established and all questions should be replied to in-thread.

    Vendors re-quoting and replying to the same positive reviews to give the impression that they are new is also decieving and could be considered as 'artificially creating interest in the WSO'.
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    • Profile picture of the author TrickyDick
      Originally Posted by Daniel Evans View Post

      Gabriel, I think this is a good move, but I also think it's of vital importance to lay down rule to those vendors who establish a WSO to solicit and hard sell via PM.

      The product on offer should be clear, as per the new rules which were established and all questions should be replied to in-thread.

      Vendors re-quoting and replying to the same positive reviews to give the impression that they are new is also decieving and could be considered as 'artificially creating interest in the WSO'.
      This has been a big problem for years...

      The "bait and switch"

      The $1 call.....

      Answering questions via PM....

      I think the WSO rules should explicitly prohibit all of these...

      These end up ruining the buyer experience....
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  • Profile picture of the author jhon1050
    Hello,
    Today, the Internet Marketplace is a very important thing of our humane life.
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  • Profile picture of the author NTeddy
    It's good to know that actions are being done against such sellers. Personally, I have fallen to such things back when, i have just started.
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  • Profile picture of the author Earl Lewis
    Good to know
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  • Profile picture of the author sojy john
    Thanks for the reviews you are doing. I'm relatively new to thsi forum and learning stuff here and saw this as the first post. Will be careful going forward.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joyle
    Good work! I will make sure to look out for this stuff in future
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Lovett
    Clean marketplace is very important. Thanks Gabriel.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shawn Ng
    Appreciate the transparency!
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  • Profile picture of the author xcode919
    Great step! these are really required.

    I lost my old account since i don't checked this forum since long as kids are more all around.

    Hope now it get clean.
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  • Profile picture of the author DripRevenue
    Good, maybe this will increase sales for the ones who actually wish to provide value. Having 2 posts and selling a WSO isn't exactly to convincing... Glad to see the Freelancer team making a move on this. The WSO section has lost a lot of momentum and solid sellers (there weren't many to begin with) since the acquisition. Hopefully, this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tony LaRocco
    Thanks Gabriel!
    Appreciate you keeping an eye on the people in the forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author mattlaclear
    Originally Posted by Gabriel View Post

    here is a quick update of some of the things we have been working on at Warrior

    We are working pretty hard to clean the Market Place and one of the things we have started to do it's to Ban Sellers that try to "play with the system"

    Creating multiple accounts....
    posting fake reviews
    artificially creating interest in the WSO...

    All those are factors that wins automatically a ban from the forum and the marketplace

    Enjoy the quick video update

    Fraud in Warrior Forum - What we are doing about it - YouTube
    Thanks, Gabriel,

    As a long-time advertiser here on the Warrior Forum, your recent steps have begun to restore my faith in the validity of spending my ad dollars with you once again. I've pretty much have been away from the forum since Allan Says sold it. It's nice to be back, and I look forward to being active in the forum again.
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  • Thanks for keeping this place safe!
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  • Profile picture of the author workoutstuffptb
    That is great that someone is taking out the time to get rid of the "bad apples" in the forum marketplace.
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  • Profile picture of the author biggerboots
    Thanks for this Gabriel. I'm still new to WF but I've been on many other forums for years and you can tell the fake reviewers a mile off. They really must think we are all stupid. The tell-tale signs include :

    - Lots of 1 or 2 post members suddenly posting glowing reviews
    - Posters inactive for a long time suddenly posting on a WSO thread, then disappearing
    - Posters who leave a positive review then post nothing else anywhere on any forum

    In fact, the only thing worse than fake reviews is bought reviews. Some people are buying fake reviews on other marketing forums or Fiverr etc. Let's stamp it out.
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    • Profile picture of the author TrickyDick
      Originally Posted by biggerboots View Post

      Thanks for this Gabriel. I'm still new to WF but I've been on many other forums for years and you can tell the fake reviewers a mile off. They really must think we are all stupid. The tell-tale signs include :

      - Lots of 1 or 2 post members suddenly posting glowing reviews
      - Posters inactive for a long time suddenly posting on a WSO thread, then disappearing
      - Posters who leave a positive review then post nothing else anywhere on any forum

      In fact, the only thing worse than fake reviews is bought reviews. Some people are buying fake reviews on other marketing forums or Fiverr etc. Let's stamp it out.
      The buying of reviews ***was*** disallowed a long, long, long time ago....

      Back in the day, there was a ton of "purchased" reviews... One popular "Coach" had all six of his "video reviews" from Fiverr at one point. LOL...
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  • Profile picture of the author professional23
    Thanks for letting us know the things are going in right direction

    Regards
    Originally Posted by Gabriel View Post

    here is a quick update of some of the things we have been working on at Warrior

    We are working pretty hard to clean the Market Place and one of the things we have started to do it's to Ban Sellers that try to "play with the system"

    Creating multiple accounts....
    posting fake reviews
    artificially creating interest in the WSO...

    All those are factors that wins automatically a ban from the forum and the marketplace

    Enjoy the quick video update

    Fraud in Warrior Forum - What we are doing about it - YouTube
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  • Profile picture of the author smith2301
    thanks for sharing your views. I will try to more concious.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Sumod
    I am very new to the forum and trying to find out how things work. Thank you for the information.
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  • Profile picture of the author sparrow
    keep up the good work
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  • Profile picture of the author Mian Silli
    hi,
    That is great work to stop scammer. they are bad mark on marketing face. Stopp scammers is give a chance to those who work hard and those are genuine.
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    Thanks for that. We appreciate your efforts.
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    that will be a good thing for this platform.
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  • Profile picture of the author palanquin
    So, when we find a nice bight shinny object with blatantly false "reviews" what is the procedure?

    I found one yesterday, too obvious. I did some research, and in private, I suggested he rethink his presentation and remove the false reviews, with the false head shots.

    I was called a neurotic old man. Well, my tweenagers and husband thought it was funny!
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    palanquin -

    Use the little red ! in the triangle below your user name....that sends a report to mods who will investigate.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Thanks Kurt - nothing like scrambled instructions....sorry about that.
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  • Profile picture of the author NickCesarz
    I've been gone for a while. Appreciate all the hard work.
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  • Profile picture of the author vsdtech
    This is good to hear,I am real and don't need any fake action to be real.
    Kudos to Warriorforum Team. Please intensify efforts to completely get rid of fake sellers here
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  • Profile picture of the author simonmc
    How is this keeping the market place safe when some sellers only ever respond via PM. This should be outlawed as this is where the scams are hidden from those most at risk of falling for them.

    If the offer is genuine and is good enough to be sold then why hide everything in PM's?

    I also noticed a seller that hides answers in PM's was banned only to come right back in with the exact same offer under another username and continues to hide answers in PMs.

    How is that making the market place more transparent and better and safer if a banned user can just roll right back up again with eh exact same offer and conduct business in the exact same way just with a new user account.

    Sorry but I don't understand how it's safer when these things go unchallenged.
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  • Profile picture of the author blaurenthompson
    Thank you! Definitely great to work on keeping the forum safe for everyone to use!
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  • Profile picture of the author tg187
    I see someone posting a CPA method who has stolen earnings screenshots from another course.
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    • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
      Originally Posted by tg187 View Post

      I see someone posting a CPA method who has stolen earnings screenshots from another course.
      Have you reported the course to a Admin ?
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  • Profile picture of the author pragati260
    great ! site
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  • Profile picture of the author linord
    Thank you for keeping this place clean of frauds and liars!
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    I see someone posting a CPA method who has stolen earnings screenshots
    You've posted in several WSO threads - and no mention of this. If you have proof, report it. Otherwise, it's an unproven allegation.
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  • Profile picture of the author samratchauhan
    Good initiative

    Keep it up Gabriel
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    Wow. Thanks for your useful information.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    This is definitely a giant leap in the right direction

    If I may add to your list, you may want to be on the lookout for paid 'social proof boosts'

    Those are particularly tricky... and effective.

    Sadly, the buyer ends up holding the bag.
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  • Profile picture of the author .
    And we just banned 5 "old sellers".....
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  • Profile picture of the author ebiznizman
    Thanks for you guys
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  • Profile picture of the author Nortus Fitness
    Thanks for keeping this destination scamsters.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cybernetmarket
    Thanks for cleaning house. If only people would be honest
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  • Profile picture of the author Barbara Dingwall
    Good to see this, as I'm not interested in anything fake.
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  • Profile picture of the author newxxx
    how do i report another fraudulent seller on warrior forum ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Roger99
    Thanks, Good Post
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamestt89
    Thanks for keeping the warrior forum a safe place to do business!
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  • Profile picture of the author thomarv37
    I stopped buying WSO's several years ago and left WF because it seemed like it was a haven for scam artists. I'm glad you have taken this step to remove these scam artists!
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  • Profile picture of the author Sid Owsley
    Thanks Gabriel
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Duchesne
    Thanks for the info Gabriel. As a new member I'll watch out.
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  • Profile picture of the author xInd
    Thank you Gabriel, glad to see you are doing a great job here.

    Perhaps you could create an option like being a war room member, where we pay a small fee to have our phone number, address, business info and or ID verified?
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  • Profile picture of the author sftslab
    Thank you for sharing such useful stuff and very much appreciable.
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  • Excellent job, Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author goindeep
    Been away for a while and I was a very vocal critic. Good to see you guys are working on improving and cleaning this place up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Justseo
    Originally Posted by Gabriel View Post

    here is a quick update of some of the things we have been working on at Warrior

    We are working pretty hard to clean the Market Place and one of the things we have started to do it's to Ban Sellers that try to "play with the system"

    Creating multiple accounts....
    posting fake reviews
    artificially creating interest in the WSO...

    All those are factors that wins automatically a ban from the forum and the marketplace

    Enjoy the quick video update

    Fraud in Warrior Forum - What we are doing about it - YouTube
    Thanks for the update Gabriel, great to know that you guys are working hard on ensuring our security.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashishmajhi
    Thanks Gabriel

    you guys are working very hard to make Warrior Forum a better platform.
    Just keep it up and have a nice day.

    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greevi24
    thanks for the info
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  • Profile picture of the author venkat9985
    Banned
    nice..Appreciated
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  • Profile picture of the author Idol
    That's great step towards removing bad sellers and keeping the forum clean. Beside this, there are also scammers who are creating accounts just to scam good buyers here. I think there should be a section (sticky) in this forum to list them and warn everyone about those scammers.

    Appreciate for the steps taken.
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  • hi all am new here so please can some one HELP
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      I'm banning you with that username
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  • Profile picture of the author Activatorman
    Staying on top or potential fraud both in forums and with websites is an increasing problem. Whilst we are all aware of it, there are solutions out there that are helping. I have been developing specialist technology for websites. So its good to see the work going on here to keep it safe. Thanks
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