Revealed: What is the black technology that can delete comments and restore links?

Later we learned that this black technology can not only create investment links, but also delete negative reviews, restore links, obtain authorization from big brands, and even be used by unscrupulous sellers to attack competitors.

I believe that after reading this, most sellers have become interested in this black technology, and some even want to learn about it and then operate it themselves. But here is a serious reminder to all sellers: you can understand it, but you don’t have to practice it. After all, if you choose to make a profit in a way that does not comply with the rules of the Amazon platform, you will have to bear the corresponding price.

Below we will reveal to you the basic principles of this black technology tool swaks and how it can delete negative reviews, restore links, obtain authorization from big brands, etc.

Introduction to swaks tool

When it comes to the swaks tool, we need to first explain SMTP to sellers. SMTP is a protocol that provides reliable and efficient email transmission. And swaks (Swiss Army Knife Smtp) is a powerful, flexible, scriptable, and transaction-oriented SMTP testing tool written and maintained by John Jetmore.

Currently, the tool is free to use. The official website is: http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ (copy to your browser and open)

Basic usage of swaks

As for the basic usage methods, sellers can refer to the picture below for more information↓↓↓

▲ The screenshot comes from CSDN blogger Qianxiao996

Advanced usage of swaks

In addition to the basic usage of swaks, blogger @拆家队萨队长gave the advanced version of the operation method: In the Kali Linux environment, use swaks to forge emails and forge senders (basically the same as the phishing mailbox principle of the year). Click on a normal email to display the original text of the email, copy the original text, and save it as email.txt.

▲ The screenshot comes from CSDN blogger Qianxiao996

The received item can be deleted. It is for receiving information and is not needed when sending emails. The to item can also be deleted. You can directly use swaks --to instead. Be careful not to forget to add --from, otherwise a certain mailbox (such as QQ) will report that it was sent by Kali.

▲ The screenshot comes from CSDN blogger Qianxiao996

Because the above content involves some code knowledge, sellers may need to learn some code knowledge before they can understand it.

Of course, the above content is only for sellers to know the swaks tool and understand its operation.

Regarding the above content, the editor can summarize it in one sentence: Sellers can use Swaks to forge emails, forge senders, and send emails with any content to any target.

Previously, an Amazon seller asked in the forum: How do service providers generate registration links? They don’t trigger postcards, and they register a lot of small accounts to sell? Does anyone understand?

In fact, in addition to regular investment links, there is a high probability that Swaks or other similar tools are also used, which I will not go into details here.

▲ The screenshot comes from Zhiwubuyan

So how can you use Swaks to forge emails to delete negative reviews, restore complained links, obtain brand authorization, or even attack competitors?

Forged emails to delete negative reviews have become the mainstream model

Negative reviews have always been a headache for sellers, so Amazon sellers have always had a very high demand for negative review deletion services. Previously, service providers would find channels to purchase the real email addresses of buyers who left negative reviews, and then send emails to buyers to offer compensation in US dollars to ask them to delete the negative reviews. The service providers earn the difference between the bribes given to buyers and the service fees charged to sellers.

However, due to the low rate of review deletion, it has gradually been replaced by forging emails to delete negative reviews, which has become the mainstream mode currently used by service providers. So how does it work? The editor will share the general operation method here:

According to relevant service providers, the success rate of deleting reviews using this method is currently as high as 80%.

Some sellers may think that it is safest if Amazon officially deletes negative reviews. But imagine if such behavior is discovered by buyers and reported to Amazon, the sellers are likely to face penalties such as account suspension.

Forged emails to restore links and attack opponents

In addition to receiving negative reviews, sellers may also receive infringement complaints, causing the link to become a fake. Sellers can also use this method to forge the complainant's email address to withdraw the lawsuit.

The relevant service providers said: We have done 1-2000 times to restore the link by forging emails, and only 1-2 were checked by Amazon. In addition, there are also big brand authorizations using forged emails, but now many sellers dare not do this, which can be said to be an obvious infringement.

In addition, according to the service provider: Swaks tool can also attack competitors by forging email addresses. Sellers can query the competitor's store and email address, then find a bad review in its store, and then get the corresponding buyer's email address. Then, they forge the buyer's email address to report to Amazon, list the other party's store and ASIN, and accuse the other party of contacting them to delete the bad review. Amazon may close the other party's account.

I hope that the above content can satisfy everyone’s curiosity about “black technology” to some extent. At the same time, I also hope that it can encourage Amazon to officially fix related bugs.

However, the above methods are harmful to the security of the sellers’ accounts and healthy competition in the Amazon market. Sellers should return to the essence of operation and operate legally and in compliance with regulations by making efforts to select products, analyze peers, and master the rules of the Amazon platform.

Finally, I would like to remind all sellers again: please do not imitate the above methods! At the same time, I hope everyone can have a rational discussion on the topic of "Amazon's black technology".