The increasing popularity of online review systems motivates malevolent intent in competing
sellers and service providers to manipulate consumers by fabricating product/service …

The use of the internet and social media have changed consumer behavior and the ways in
which companies conduct their business. Social and digital marketing offers significant …

We study the market for fake product reviews on Amazon. com. Reviews are purchased in
large private groups on Facebook and other sites. We hand-collect data on these markets …

Online reviews are of great importance in supporting the purchasing decision making of
online consumers. With the prospering of e-commerce, increasingly fraudulent reviews are …

Background Consumers rely heavily on online user reviews when shop** online and
cybercriminals produce fake reviews to manipulate consumer opinion. Much prior research …

Trust has been in the focus of research on business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce in the
last decade. The rise of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) markets in the context of the sharing …

Online experiments have become an important methodology in the study of human
behavior. While social scientists have been quick to capitalize on the benefits of online …

Growing interest in peer-generated online reviews for product promotion has incentivized
online review manipulation. The latter is challenging to be detected. In this study, to discern …

In this paper, we study an online retail marketplace's incentive to manipulate sellers' product
attractiveness to consumers (eg, through fake sales, fake reviews, or dishonest …

Fake reviews are rising as online reviews become more prevalent. However, little is known
about the mechanism underlying firms' negative fake reviews. This study draws on signaling …