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The First Group review: Proof, 98% fake reviews on all review websites. 8

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I am doing research to develop software to sniff out fake online reviews, to get the software to work I need to tell it what is makes a fake review stand out from real reviews. To do this I have spent a lot of time looking for and researching fake reviews, boy oh boy! with The First Group, I found the mother lode.

If you are doing research and looking to invest in property in Dubai, you might like to see what I found, let me walk you through these simple steps before you invest with TFG.

Go to the Sitejabber review website and bring up TFG's reviews.
I can't post links so you will have to do a quick search.

Everyone knows to skim over the 5- star reviews written by reviewers that have just written one review and the review looks like it has been written by a marketing person because there is a very high chance that it has, but take a closer look at reviewers that have written by people with more than one review.

So, let's review the reviewers, look at reviews written by Michael B., Amir B., Craig N., Ivan D., Lego L. and Violeta M. All these people have written great 5-star reviews for TGF, but incredibly, they have ALL written 5- star reviews for a company called AliPartnership as well, suggesting this is a coincidence would be ridiculous but is evidence that TFG have outsourced their fake review writing to people with multiple accounts and multiple clients.
Arnold A. is also a fake review although has not written a review for AliPartnership. Out of 8 reviews written by reviewers with more than 1 review, 7 of them are absolutely fake.

All of the other 5-star reviews apart from 1 are very suspect too, they had the accounts set up the at the same time the reviews were written, they just the right length, not too long, and they reek of being written by marketing people, very squeaky clean and perfect. With the undisputable evidence that the other reviews are definitely fake, these are almost certainly fake too.

So TFG's tally on Sightjabber at the time of writing this should look more like,

5-star reviews, 1
2-star reviews, 1
1-star reviews, 6
Fake reviews, 33

These numbers are reinforced if to look at the amount of reviews TFG's competitors receive.
TFG's Social Media people only respond to negative reviews, never positive ones, not much point when they know they are all fake. There is evidence of fakes reviews on all the review websites including this one.

Signs of outsourcing can also be found on the Trustpilot review website too, take a look at this, A review by Megan on the 5th of August and a review by Keryan Koloban on the 29th of August, you will notice they have the same heading "Extraordinary" you may also notice that Keryan's review was updated on September 10th. Before the update both reviews were the same, two reviews written by different people on different dates exactly the same, word for word. I know when TGF's fake review writers noticed their mistake they would change it, and they did, but not before I had taken a screenshot that I will post with this review.

I have read hundreds of fake reviews over the past few months and normally I wouldn't write a review like this but I feel duty bound to write this one for 2 reasons.
1st, The vast majority of TGF's reviews are fake, on all of the review websites including this one.
2nd, This is an investment and development business, a business where trust is paramount and they ask you to trust them with hundreds of thousands of your dollars when they obviously can't be trusted from the getgo.

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Abu FAHAD 345876
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Nov 25, 2019 12:50 am EST

Trustpilot have now removed many of the fake reviews, so have Sitejabber. They started asking their clients to write reviews to try and save their overall star rating but they only got more bad reviews. Some fake 5-star reviews still remain.

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Bobdown11
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Jan 14, 2020 3:58 am EST

After having most of their fake reviews removed from Trustpilot and Sitejabber both websites were flooded with real bad reviews. TFG tried to offset the bad reviews by asking real clients to write reviews but all they got were more bad reviews. Now it seems they are back to writing their own fake 5-star reviews again but trying not to make the same mistakes but now they are making different mistakes.
Look at their page on Trustpilot. Look at all the positive reviews dating back to the last time they were busted. See a patton? All the positive reviews are very short and have a title that is the same as the first line of the review. I know the website with take the first line of the review if the title space is left blank but all of them?! Given that these reviews are so similar and given their history with fake reviews, it would be a safe bet to say all these reviews were written by the same person.

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Jun 30, 2023 11:00 am EDT
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I tried to put my very bad experience with First Group on Trustpilot, but it didn’t show up!

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Bakhtiyor Achilov
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Apr 28, 2024 9:56 am EDT
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Если вы хотите потерять свои деньги и доверие к инвестиционной привлекательности Дубая, тогда вы находитесь в правильном месте, потому что компания The First Group поможет вам расстаться со своими реальными и мечтами в светлое и безденежное будущее в старости. Не инвестируете в них. Это мошенники.

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manju raghavan
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Jun 26, 2024 12:04 pm EDT
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Please keep away!

Please keep away!

Worst company to invest your hard earned money. The First Group Dubai.. please stay away!

Invested back in 2017 during family holiday..Still waiting to hear project operational date. Poor communication from TFG therefore demand a full refund

Manju Raghavan

Member of Friends and family investors group (FFI)

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Prince_creme
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Aug 31, 2024 6:17 pm EDT
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Des voleurs, des arnaqueurs de haut niveau, service marketing psychologique poussé, évitez-les sinon tu signeras un truc auquel tu n'es pas du tout prêt. Charbel, Monique, soyez maudits.

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Nancy Holloway
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Sep 21, 2024 8:31 pm EDT
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SCAM! They are fraudulent trading platform . they are too good to be true no one should believe them, I personally fail into their trap.
i reported them to alex victim help ﹫maℹl. ¢om
and they did excellently by getting my money back to me

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Nancy Holloway
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Oct 08, 2024 8:55 am EDT
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SCAM! They are fraudulent trading platform . they are too good to be true no one should believe them, I personally fail into their trap.
i reported them to alex victim help ﹫maℹl. ¢om
and they did excellently by getting my money back to me

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