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by bilbopotter 2169 days ago
Online reputation is very easy to build. These people are scammers they're hardly going to worry about giving themselves good reviews. It's done all over amazon, trip advisor etc yet somehow the darkweb has a full proof online reputation system - don't make me laugh.
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Dark Web reviews are linked to purchases. you can't just had a load of fake reviews without completing a transaction which means you have to pay a fee to the darknet site. So it is possible but it can be expensive, the easy option is to run a legitimate service and then at some point you could just start taking people's money and not providing the service. Of course this has a limited shelf life, because new reviews are going to be a positive