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• Check the reviewer’s record. Look first at the reviewer’s history, says Andrea Eldridge, the CEO of Nerds on Call, a technology service company. “Fake reviews are often posted by accounts with little or no additional review history,” she says. • Show and tell. Talk is cheap, but photos of a resort or restaurant are more difficult to fake. “This is proof that we really stayed in those hotels,” says Olivier Olielo, who publishes the hotel ratings site olielo.com. Think twice before trusting a detailed review with no photos. • Look for extremes. “Fake reviews seem to be polarized — extremely positive or extremely negative,” says Eduard de Boer of reputatiecoaching.nl. If you see a one-star or a five-star rating or a lot of superlatives in the description, chances are you’re looking at a fake.
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