If you are considering Upgrow.com or looking for Upgrow.com reviews, we want to formally and publicly announce that our agency, Upgrow (website www.Upgrow.io), has an imitator, Upgrow.com, which is in no way affiliated with our company.
While they are not a direct competitor in the performance marketing agency space, they have an Instagram following service (presumably bots or click farms); Upgrow.com has gone to great lengths to leverage our brand and reputation.
For example, they have pretended to imitate our founders and team as their own, as seen below. I promise Danny and I are not the founders of this company:
While you may not see this anymore on their website, you can look at the history of it at https://web.archive.org/web/20231205025337/https://www.upgrow.com/about.
Upgrow.com has also set up social media and review website profiles that reference our Upgrow website and social media profiles, as a way to confuse users and make themselves appear more legitimate. They’ve filled these review websites with fake positive reviews and have also listed our Upgrow business address as their own across their review and social media profiles:
In a Google search for “Upgrow”, “Upgrow reviews”, or “Upgrow marketing”, users see our brand as well as this Temu Upgrow. This is clearly confusing to users and has led to our traffic accidentally going to their website, as well as their customers coming to ours.
We get emails and calls daily from Upgrow.com customers who are disappointed with the service and are unsuccessfully attempting to reach their customer support. The Upgrow.com service creates many public bad reviews, occasionally mistakenly given on our Upgrow profiles.
The positive reviews that Upgrow.com has appear to be fake and written by AI. Notice a trend with their Trustpilot Reviews
🚩 Red Flags Indicating Possible Fake or AI-Generated Reviews
1. Reviewer Patterns
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Nearly all reviewers have only 1 review on Trustpilot. This is a strong signal of low authenticity.
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No profile photos or bios — another common trait among inauthentic reviews.
2. Language Style
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Overly polished, generic praise like:
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“They have helped our business grow tremendously.”
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“Super responsive team!”
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“I would highly recommend them.”
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Many use identical phrases and formats — short intro, general praise, and vague description of services.
3. Review Timing
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Most reviews were posted within a short window (within weeks of each other) — indicating batch posting, often done to inflate ratings artificially.
4. Specific Examples:
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“Mary Wilson” and others use copy-paste style with generic “great experience” language and no specifics.
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“Highly recommend” is used repeatedly — often a dead giveaway when the rest of the review is vague.
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Some names seem randomly generated, and a few have duplicate phrases across different reviews.
While we are currently pursuing trademark, legal, and other means to put a stop to this, it is a slow process. In the meantime, we wanted to inform the public to be aware of this deception and provide clarity on the situation.
Here are some key actions you can take:
- Contact your bank/credit card institution to dispute their charges and report them for fraud.
- Share your experiences on Reddit, Trustpilot, SiteGrabber and Reviews.io (be sure to mention Upgrow.com (scammers) – not Upgrow.io (us)).
- Report phishing to Google
This is a very unfortunate situation and we hope this post helps others avoid these scammers — please share this!
