Heather M.
Beware of Fake Five Star Reviews
I have been a member of Luckscout for 3 years and the ongoing behavior from the owner is deeply disturbing. As a result, I can no longer support this platform nor recommend it to anyone else. The recent wave of 5-star reviews on this profile is the direct result of manipulation by LuckScout's owner, Vahid. On August 2nd, he issued an ultimatum to the community in an update titled "An Important Update About LuckScout’s Future," stating that he would shut down the platform unless users stepped up to actively "debunk" negative reviews. In a disturbing direct quote from this update, it is stated "August 2026 may be the final month of the current LuckScout program. Unless I see meaningful support from members who genuinely want this program to continue, August 2026 may become the final month of the current version of LuckScout. Support doesn’t simply mean sending encouraging emails. That’s not what I mean. Nor do I mean posting reviews or comments on LuckScout itself. As I explained, some malicious people have spread false information, negativity, and insults about LuckScout and me on other websites across the Internet. If you genuinely want to support us and see this program continue, your honest reviews on those platforms can help counter the misinformation and negativity that have been spread about LuckScout." As a result of this update made by Vahid, there has been an influx of positive reviews posted here on Trustpilot regarding Luckscout to offset genuine criticism of the platform. Because users on this platform are reliant on the owner to maintain their point systems and cash-out eligibility, this ultimatum forces a heavily biased influx of positive feedback. Mobilizing an entire user base to strategically target a review profile to drown out valid criticism directly violates Trustpilot's guidelines against selective, biased review generation. Potential users should be highly skeptical of the sudden surge in positive ratings. They do not reflect genuine, independent consumer experiences; they are the result of users trying to keep the platform from being shut down by management. UPDATE: Vahid, your statements in this reply completely contradict the reality of your own words and actions. I will absolutely not be using Trustpilot’s private portal to supply my account information to your business. You claim it is a neutral "verification," but providing my account details directly to your management team that has a documented history of targeting detractors and making vague legal threats is inherently unsafe. I am, however, bypassing you entirely and submitting my full, unedited three-year history and all relevant screenshots directly to Trustpilot’s compliance team for an independent investigation. Your defense relies entirely on a hyper-literal shield around the word “honest,” while completely ignoring the coercive environment you created. When you explicitly tell users that the platform might shut down that very month unless they go to external websites to "counter the misinformation," you are holding their accumulated points and cash-out eligibility hostage. Users financially dependent on your site know exactly what kind of review they must write to ensure the platform survives. To call this a neutral, un-pressured invitation for feedback is completely dishonest. You claim that you only acted because “hostile voices dominate public discussion,” but you completely omit the fact that you actively engineer that imbalance yourself. You tightly moderate, censor, and delete any basic questions or criticisms regarding payments or system transparency on LuckScout itself. By silencing any voice that isn't praising the platform internally, you force users to turn to external review sites just to express genuine, unfiltered experiences. You cannot systematically muzzle your users on your own site and then complain that third-party platforms are the only places carrying critical feedback. Furthermore, your attempt to use Amazon as an example of a successful business that ignores Trustpilot ratings is pure hypocrisy. On your own website, you tell your members a completely different story, explicitly stating that Amazon’s low rating is actually because "Trustpilot is trying to pressure Amazon into paying them... to manage all the fake and misleading reviews." You call Trustpilot an “extortion platform” and a “scheme” behind closed doors, yet you pivot to treating it as a legitimate benchmark when defending yourself here. Finally, Section 3 of your update threatens anonymous critics with international lawsuits. That is not welcoming critique; it is aggressive intimidation to force silence. What you are doing is wrong, Vahid. You will not silence me here.
Response from LuckscoutSep 10, 2026
UPDATE IN RESPONSE TO THE REVIEWER'S UPDATE: In their update, the reviewer says they will submit their alleged three-year LuckScout history and screenshots directly to Trustpilot for independent investigation. We welcome that. Based on the identity presented with this review, we cannot identify a corresponding three-year LuckScout membership in our records. However, the reviewer does not need to disclose private information publicly or directly to us. If they prefer to provide evidence only to Trustpilot, we welcome Trustpilot independently verifying the claimed experience. Now to the central allegation. The reviewer titled this review “Beware of Fake Five Star Reviews” and alleges that LuckScout manipulated members into producing fake reviews. Yet the announcement quoted by the reviewer explicitly asked members for “your honest reviews.” It did not instruct anyone to leave a 5-star review, specify any rating, or offer points, money, payment eligibility or other benefits in exchange for a positive review. Most importantly, no member's accumulated points, legitimate payment eligibility or account status was conditional upon posting a positive review—or any review at all. The reviewer claims members' points and cash-outs were being “held hostage.” We categorically reject that allegation. Inviting genuine members to share their honest experiences is not the same as instructing them to fabricate positive experiences. LuckScout had positive and 5-star reviews long before this announcement, and this reviewer cannot know that other members' experiences are “fake” merely because they are positive. For additional clarity, we have added a dated September clarification to the original LuckScout article. It explicitly states that members are free to leave positive, neutral or negative reviews—or no review at all; no particular rating or sentiment is requested; and reviewing does not determine accumulated points, legitimate payment eligibility or account status. The reviewer also alleges that criticism is censored and members are banned for questioning payments. We reject that sweeping characterization. Moderating a community and enforcing its rules is not the same as prohibiting criticism. The reviewer characterizes an earlier section concerning possible legal remedies as an attempt to silence anonymous critics. We have transparently clarified that section too. People are free to criticize LuckScout or its owner publicly or anonymously. Genuine criticism is different from harassment, threats, impersonation or potentially unlawful conduct. Likewise, earlier strongly worded comments concerning Trustpilot reflected personal criticism of Trustpilot's business model and processes. They do not establish that LuckScout manufactures fake reviews, conditions payments on positive reviews or punishes members for refusing to leave them. The facts are straightforward: Were members instructed to write 5-star reviews? No. Were members offered points or payments for positive reviews? No. Was legitimate payment eligibility conditional upon writing a positive review? No. Was account status conditional upon writing a review? No. Were members explicitly asked for “honest reviews”? Yes—the reviewer's own quotation shows that. The remaining question is whether this reviewer genuinely maintained the three-year LuckScout membership they claim. They say they are submitting evidence directly to Trustpilot. We welcome independent verification and will cooperate with Trustpilot. Even if Trustpilot verifies their claimed membership, that would establish their ability to describe their own experience. It would not establish that other members' positive reviews are “fake.” People can have different genuine experiences with the same platform. We will leave readers—and Trustpilot—to distinguish between evidence, opinion and accusation.
