#TRUSTJACKED

We are all being #Trustjacked by Trustpilot

Trustpilot have failed for years to show it is a Trustworthy company and secure reviews collection platform.

As a company owner I realised something was wrong with Trustpilot when a competitor was showing very high Trustscores and Trustboxes. Worse they had dozens of fake reviews on Trustpilot that had already been removed from other platforms.

Trustpilots compliance did remove many but it revealed another Truspilot reviews security problem, victims of my competitor were logging into their Trustpilot accounts and finding fake positive 5 star “verified order” reviews in their accounts.

This means consumer accounts are hacked by either Trustpilot staff or by companies paying Trustpilot for “special features”.

What was interesting was despite these clear breaches of Trustpilots Terms of Service the flagging system did not alert visitors to this clear breach of trust.

This took several months fot Trustpilots compliance to investigate yet they missed how many other websites owned by the same competitor had been gamed, cherry picked and negative reviews removed to try and keep their Trustscore over 8.0.

However their websites and marketing showed fake Widget Fixed Trustscores in the Trustboxes - again a breach of Trustpilots Terms of service, not just decieving consumers but also unfairly helping cover up scams operated by a well dicumented industrial scale document spooling scam.

Trustpilot by assisting these scams has damaged not only consumers but good companies like mine left competing against conmen who can make more money to spend on marketing their scams and pying Trustpilot to help cover it up.

This is not a one off situation, the #fieldsdatarecoveryscam operates across many UK, US and European websites many showing Trustpilot Widget Fixed Trustboxes for years.

The point of this review is Trustpilot has shown it cannot be Trusted, does not care that its reputation management for sale is really more akin to a mafia type racketeering pay as you go cover up.

Trustpilots $192.5 million of investment and 60 million reviews may seem like big numbers.

But how many websites really pay Trustpilot and who really has access to the perosnal data collected.

Good companies will treat consumer data safely because of the GDPR but may not realise what sharing their client details with Trustpilot really means.

If Trustpilot cannot explain how reviewer profiles are hacked and who is changing the reviews then there is a real problem with Trustpilots #transparency and trustworthyness.

The 2019 flagging system usage update is effectively a cover up of the previous use of the flagging system to hide negative reviews.

It is a disgrace that the word TRUST has been hijacked by Trustpilot.

But What Did Peter really get $140million for?

I feel #Trustjacked -  Fake Trustboxes, Fake Trustscores 

Have you found something wrong about the Trustpilot Trustscores?

Did you realise your reviews and contact details are being hijacked?

Do you know who your personal details are shared with?

Do you understand what #TPwidgetfixing is and why it is used by scams conmen and fraudsters?

Have you been affected by the FieldsDataRecoveryScam or and Fields Group website or reseller like DataRecoverySpecialists dot co dot uk? Search Google for more information.

Have you realised #trustpilot has been #trustjacked by #reputation #management #racketeers who game and cherrypick to get fake trustscores?

When it comes to leaving reviews on Trustpilot most individuals do not realise their reviews, reviewer profiles, buying habits and future adsense adverts are being hijacked by Trustpilot.

Company websites are also hijacked into joining and paying Trustpilot for reviews collection.

For both consumers and businesses I do not think Trustpilot is to be trusted, it is a good idea but it is also hijacked by conmen and its own sales hungry alcohol fuelled salesteams.

Trustpilot is a data protection nightmare under the GDPR - our data is shared with many subprocessors worldwide.

I may be wrong but I suspect the future of Trustpilot is North America reviews.

In over 10 years Trustpilot failed in Europe and needs the US consumers to fall for Trustpiloteverywhere marketing but the word Trust is bought by the highest bidder. Some of the biggest internet scams use Trustpilot.

Others are webmarketing managers trying to use Trustpilot to enhance their Trustscores or push negative reviews off screen.

You can spot them on the Trustpilot homepage carousel.

There are more trustworthy, better managed and secure reviews collection platforms that charge less.

Trustpilot is effectively an online protection racketeering business reputation management system.

Often companies are hijacked or conned into joining.

As a member of the trustpilot community I am sure I have a good community spirit but I do not believe Trustpilot to be a good development, it is however the logical outcome of Google PPC / Adsense SEO domination.

Be clear on the subject of transparency Trustpilot compliance is more opaque than transparent.

Trustpilot is trying to be both a product sold by Trustpilot sales machine to justify the investment that finances its growth and the champaign lifestyles of its Trustys in conflict with its founders principles.

Trustpilots compliance teams cover up the weaknesses, scams and effectively ransom holding of websites.

Most companies after being hijacked into joining Trustpilot are left with the choice of Gaming, CherryPicking, Profile Hacking or ignoring trustpilot.

The purpose of Trustpilot is to sell reputation management, anything else is a by-product.

That is the real Trustpilot Reality - buy into it you join the club and be a happy trusted consumer trying to share your honest experience or be a company who works out how to use fake trustboxes - fake trustscores because who cares - certainly not Trustpilot.

The world is being Trustjacked by Trustpilot.

Will the ICO investigate?

Trust is hijacked by conmen.

Reviews cannot be trusted.

Trustboxes and Trustscore are wrong.

Professional are adding insult to financial injury by effectively helping conmen.

You too will be #trustjacked if you have not been already.