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Apple App Store & Google Play Flooded With Fake Reviews

  Apple App store and Google Play flooded with fake reviews Analysis of nearly a million reviews reveals how apps could be gaming the biggest app stores to mislead consumers HW Hannah Walsh Apple's App Store and Google Play are failing to filter out fake and suspicious reviews from their platforms, a large-scale analysis by Which? has found.  Using a unique model for classifying suspicious review activity on apps, we found as many as 25% of the top 100 apps on Google Play in certain popular categories have suspicious reviews, while in Apple's App Store, this figure was 17%. Over the years we’ve exposed fake reviews on a variety of platforms, for both products and businesses. So it might not come as a surprise that there’s a thriving business for fake reviews on app stores, too. Our latest research reveals the scale of the issue. Find out  how to spot a fake review   with our in-depth guide. Dodgy apps on Apple and Google app stores We conducted a large-scale analysis of the rev