The Deceased Leaving Negative Google Reviews?

Aug 30, 2016 - 8:03 am 7 by
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William Rock posted in the Google My Business Help forums evidence that shows that deceased people are coming back to life to post negative reviews of businesses in their Google business listings.

If you look at this business you will see a review left by Emma Aronson three weeks ago, it even has her profile picture.

But that Emma Aronson lost her life over a year ago, so how did she leave a review just a few weeks ago?

Here is here review in the profile, notice the name, profile picture and that it was from three weeks ago:

Dead Person Google Review

Here is Emma's photo from the Fox news story:

Emma Aronson

Looks to be the same person.

Sadly, it may be a case where a spammy company took control of her account and is using her profile to leave negative reviews of companies.

William called this sick and wrong, and he is right. Google has not yet responded in the thread.

Forum discussion at Google My Business Help.

 

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