SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — There’s an ongoing scam targeting small businesses here in Phoenix and around the nation.
The scammers are raiding the internet with negative reviews and it’s causing small businesses a lot of problems.
Kim Coates and Isaac Navias say their company is being unfairly targeted with negative, fake reviews.
“This one says, ‘Product broke in just one day, asked for help. They walked away, worst experience I’ve ever had, this company is truly bad,’” Navias said.
The couple runs a digital marketing company in Scottsdale called LocalFi . It specializes in helping business promote their products and services online, so they know how important it is to have positive reviews on Google.
So when they woke up one day to a series of fake reviews about their business, t