In Taiwan, people have been caught red-handed trying to make harsh comments about themselves and competing companies in various forums. Samsung. This year In another post about this in April As you may know, Taiwanese authorities have accused Samsung of conducting fraudulent advertising activities in the country.

The Korean company is online HTC It was suspected at the time that some students had been recruited for the purpose of spreading negative comments about it. There are also allegations of spending money to write good reviews about their products Galaxy Against the device manufacturer. The country’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) then launched a formal investigation into Samsung’s activities. And by the end of October, the Korean company was guilty Convicted.

Is Samsung using “Dirty Tricks” to stay ahead of the competition?

The FTC says a large number of people were employed on Taiwanese online forums to post positive reviews in favor of Samsung and negative posts about competing company’s products. However, in this case, the FTC did not mention the name of any organization specifying the location of the competing company. Needless to say, HTC is one of Samsung’s main targets in Taiwan.

Of course, come from Korea Samsung Couldn’t do this alone; Instead, several local Taiwanese marketing companies were involved, with two companies paying a total of, 100,000 in fines.

While Samsung may not have been aware of the issue at first, after the latest information was released, they said that the bestseller would be committed to maintaining a transparent and honest communication with its customers. Android Phone maker.

Incidentally, Taiwan’s Fair Trade Agency fined Samsung at least twice last year. One allegation was syndicated illegal pricing of optical disk drives and the other was misleading advertising of the Galaxy Y Duos.