I was alerted to this Google profile that had posted suspicious reviews. It appears that this is not only a fake profile, but it is also using a tool to scan GBPs and write reviews. The average person can write one to two reviews per minute. This reviewer wrote an alarming number of reviews in a short time frame. I stopped counting after I counted 1082 reviews posted within one hour. There is no way that anybody could write that many reviews in that timeframe. It took me ten minutes to scroll through the reviews on my phone. It takes Google time to load additional results. This profile wrote three-sentence reviews. The kicker is that the latest review states, “US English review test,” The review shows that it was edited after it was initially posted.
This test is scary. If Google can’t see that 6,513 reviews were posted in a short period of time and remove them all, then the spammers will have a field day. Google lists the profile as having 5,662 reviews and 1 rating. Google removed 851 reviews. Google removed 13% of the reviews. 87 of the reviews are still live on Google. I don’t know when the removed reviews were posted. Were they posted yesterday or days prior?
If Google can’t identify this type of abuse, it will get worse.