A man has been jailed in Italy after allegedly writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor
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- A man who allegedly wrote fake reviews for Italian restaurants and hotels on TripAdvisor has been jailed for nine months, the company said.
- He has also been ordered to pay an 8,000 euro ($9,300) fine.
- The man, who was not named, offered to sell glowing reviews to businesses across Italy to bump up their ratings on the TripAdvisor site.
A man who wrote fake reviews about Italian restaurants and hotels on the online travel site TripAdvisor has been jailed for nine months and ordered to pay an 8,000 euro ($9,300) fine, the company said on Wednesday.
TripAdvisor said in a statement that the sentence was handed down in June by a court in the southern Italian city of Lecce. There was no immediate confirmation from the court.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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