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Originally Posted by ApK
I do occasionally get emails from sellers I've bought stuff from offering to send me a free product in exchange for a review, and sometimes they are not the best communicators in written English. If I can clearly associate it with an actual purchase I've made, I occasionally accept. I've gotten some nice things that way. But if I can't, I'd consider it a scam, or spam, at best, as well.
(BTW, When the offer is an item in exchange for an honest review, I sometimes accept. When the offer is an item for a FIVE STAR review, I blacklist them.)
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There are definitely some legitimate companies that will ask for honest reviews in exchange for a free product which you review. This email though seemed to have a bogus company name. They said they represented about 100 other companies but didn’t mention which ones. Plus there was no indication of why they extended the invitation to me or mention of any item I had already purchased. It just smelled of phishing to me, so to be safe I deleted the email and will ignore their offer.
Here is the text of the email. Pay attention to the PayPal portion, as that sounds really suspect to me. Why should the reviewer care how they pay for the item? I would think they could just send the item without having the reviewer actually use PayPal to buy it. That just sounds like they want to get the reviewer’s PayPal info.
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