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I received a [spammy] message from one of my Whatsapp contacts with the content along the line of : In order to unlock the full features of the new BBM, forwad blah blah blah to 10 of your friends.

It could just be a spammy message that caught on really well and might not have nothing to do with Blackberry buying fake reviews IMHO

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So could this be the next step in forcing people to leave you good reviews? Set the app up so if you leave a good review there's a 70% chance it will unlock some optional features. You get a ton of good reviews and plausible deniability: I mean, it's not like leaving a good review always unlocks the app. Obviously this isn't some brilliant scheme to jump to the front of appstore rankings.

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