I am quite frustrated :( Targeted fake 1 star reviews from scammers

[Gawbly]

Someone reuploaded my chrome extension and added malware to the code. I wrote a review for their extension warning people that it's malicious, and not 5 minutes later i get bombarded with 1 start reviews from different account of the malicious party. What can i do in this case? 

[Robbi]

Next weekend you could take a walk by the sea breathing some iodine-rich air or if you live near the mountains a walk in the woods.
I'm not kidding, if you're frustrated this is great advice.
Remember that you have implicitly accepted these rules and therefore you shouldn't complain.
I am referring to all the consents you give every day to access services (IT and not).
We live in an Orwellian reality where everything is its exact opposite.

Stop for a moment and look around; misfortunes are something else!!!

For the stars, contact all your friends (from the keyboard) and ask them to vote positively for your extension and at the same time to vote negatively for your "competitor" otherwise fly high and don't lose sleep over it.
I don't think this extension has made you richer or more famous than you already were, is it?

[Gawbly]

Robbi, i appreciate you brother, what bothered me is the months i spent building this and learning my way through javascript, just for a low life to come and ruin it all in a split second.

However, at the end of the day you are 100% right and i shouldn't lose sleep over it. Live to see another day! 

PS. i will surely be taking a long walk in the open next weekend ;)

[Juraj M.]

You can also try the one-stop support:

https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/contact/one_stop_support

(see the "An item that should not be on the store" item)

[Simeon Velichkov]

Definitely, contact the CWS team and they will sort it out for you. I wouldn't even bother leaving a review comment in that case. If you have the means to prove you are the original author of it then I'm sure it will get removed. I think I've seen extensions very similar to mine come and go. Keep working on your extension and once it gets enough traction those type of scammers won't have a chance.

[Oliver Dunk]

Please do report this! The One Stop Support form is the right place for that.

I think we're usually pretty good at responding there but let me know if you don't hear back fairly quickly :)

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB

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[Zakaria Kasmi]

I'm having the same issue, Contacted the Support team multiple times through the One Stop Support form since December 2024, still no action taken.