Sept. 14 (UPI) -- An Italian court sentenced a man to nine months in prison for writing hundreds of fake, positive reviews of businesses on the travel website, TripAdvisor.com.
The man owned a company called Promo Salento that solicited businesses to write positive reviews for them on the popular travel forum in exchange for a fee. The company wrote hundreds of reviews, but in 2015, some of the companies began sending the solicitation letters to TripAdvisor, which began an investigation.