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I think this is actually quite common now - where you get permission from a person to use their review of your product but they don't want you to use their likeness.

Maybe sometimes it feels a bit much to ask to use someone's review and also ask for a photo of them.

It is somewhat disingenuous but I don't think I mind too much if they are legit customer reviews.

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Try googling the names, job titles and companies of the people who "wrote" these reviews. I can't see any evidence that these people (and in some cases their companies) actually exist.

I don't believe that these testimonials are real.

When compared to a similar site hosted on the same server[1] the reused pictures and reviews are definitely suspicious[2].

[1] https://teracrawler.io/

[2] see the Our customers feel it section

The pricing is very different, could be some kind of test to see how much people are willing to pay

Actually teracrawler.io and proxiesapi.com are build by the same person, same page design, same footer design (left column of topics, no privacy and terms policy pages), even is the same chat software with the same customer support operator picture.

Sure, that's how I found it, there's links to each other in the menu. I didn't mean to suggest the services themselves are fake, I didn't word it well - just that the pictures and reviews are reused on similar but different services.

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