Hi everyone, I'm a student at a post-secondary school and a few days ago, I was approached by this kid who asked me to leave him a Google review on his garage door repair business page. He had a pretty convincing story at the time about how it was for his business class and how his professor was counting one review as a sale, so I ended up falling for it and left him a quick 5-star review, since I was already logged into my Google account. I deleted it after he left when I realized his story didn't make any sense. I also noticed the business had over 50 five-star reviews, all left from other students in the last few hours.
A few days later, the same kid came up to me (either had forgotten me, or just didn't care) and asked if I could create a Google page for him. I obviously said no.
I guess my question is, is there anything nefarious going on here? My best guess would be he's just making these businesses to sell leads to an already existing business. If that's the case, then that's fine, I respect the hustle. But my bigger concern would be these pages being used as fake local service businesses used to scam people who call them.
Appreciate your input!