Do we report guides with 2 accounts

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I have found a guide that has two accounts one with Joseph xxxxx, one with Joe xxxx. They review places with a cut and paste so the establishment gets double review. I feel this is not a fair representation.

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Definitely @Knobby .

Welcome back. As in Local Guides program policy, we shouldn’t use two accounts for a person in the program. If you can help share those reviews links here, it would be helpful.

Contributions to Google Maps should reflect a genuine experience at a place or business. Fake engagement is not allowed and will be removed.
This includes :

  • Content that is not based on a real experience and does not accurately represent the location or product in question.
  • Content that has been posted due to an incentive offered by a business - such as payment, discounts, free goods and/or services.
    This includes content posted following requests for revision or removal of a negative review in exchange for an incentive.
  • Content that has been posted from multiple accounts to manipulate a place’s rating.
  • Content that has been posted using an emulator or other device tampering service, modified operating system, or other method to mimic genuine engagement, manipulate sensor data or results, or otherwise thwart or confuse normal operations.

Please go through this contribution polices too.

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2 LINKS: [REMOVED]

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Thank you @Knobby , I can see same images uploaded through two different accounts. Dear @TusharSuradkar, please see through this; as above two Account might be using for fake engagement!

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Hi @Knobby,

Thank you for reporting the accounts. We will escalate this to the relevant team. Please be advised that I have removed the links to protect yours’ and everyone’s safety.