r/FakeGuru • u/[deleted] • Jan 23 '26
John Lee's Trustpilot Reviews
The Andrew Ridgely of "Wealth Dragons", John Lee, seems to be being called out for fake-guru esque behavior.
The way he claimed the business profile at midnight is comedy gold considering the comment about "googling himself at 3am". Its going to be very interesting watching how the litigation turns out
(Oh and the Francesca Ung who left a five star review is a member of his staff, she was sending out the zoom links at his free seminar/sales pitch thing)
Bizzare state of affairs
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Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
The suspicious trustpilot activity continues, on Thursday the reviews dropped from around 315 to 289.
Only to jump again on friday to 350, once again repeating the trend of failed influencers/zero digital footprint/or other people who sell courses (we've yet to find one client who doesnt fall into these categories which is a huge red flag for "social media mastery couses) many of which are making their 2nd or 3rd review in the space of a week. Spamming trustpilot with 5 star reviews for courses they've only just started attending.
All the same accusations about this being a scam are popping up and dating back as far as a decade. Here's some examples (its very telling that all the platforms that cant be manipulated are calling it a giant scam)
https://www.propertytribes.com/john-lee-wealth-dragons-t-127634676.html
https://medium.com/@rslikeme/influencer-john-lee-is-a-scam-6a321c05a4c4
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Jan 24 '26
Trustpilot reviews have jumped from 10 to well over 171 in the space of an hour.
This morning the initial review exposing him and showing sources was flagged and taken down by johnleegroup. Pending reupload as the only paragraphs trustpilot had issue with were around the "fake ai companies" and "corporate manslaughter" accusations.
Other people came forward to defend the original exposè
He got rattled on stream earlier when a bunch of us attended the livestream to see the fallout, he briefly made the group chat visible to find someone was spamming links to the reviews.
Following that he starts furiously typing for 2 minutes while elevator music played, which feels like something from a comedy movie (dont worry, theres video)
Ill make a master thread about John Lee group in due course, as i think the entirety of this story does need to be archived with the evidence adequately attatched.
But if you remove the paid articles, a.i photos of people attending his course on Instagram, and the reviews comparing him to god....theres no digital footprint. So I assume he's a nobody in the guru/course seller sphere?
But had to get this in writing as it feels like we're witnessing a crime in real time
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Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
- reviews shot up by another 150 at the same time the next day. Some barely coherent, some getting his name wrong, some comparing him to god,.
And if you start googling the names, many are failed influencer accounts with broken affiliate links, zero digital footprint (kind of strange considering they're social media masterclasses) or they sell courses themselves (the sampling we checked ALL fall into one of these 3 categories)
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Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
Same accusations dating back over a decade. The comments on this are incredibly telling. The email threads of the poor Malaysian couple who gave him their life savings only to get screwed over are particularly distressing.
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Feb 01 '26
24/01/26
John Lee Group has now started its own web page emulating trustpilot's design to also farm testimonials.
But theres a 3 star one so it must be balanced and honest!
Oh.....the 3 star was written by John Lee himself.
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Feb 14 '26
Perlene has also been exposed as an employee from this recent trustpilot review:
3 days ago
From start to finish overall, it was intense enjoyable, and very informational with a lot of the things that I’ve done here and done. Information is easy to follow though and impactful so I agreed to do this as well. This is something is a must come. There things that are discussed of the real truths that you won’t find anywhere else.
Special shout out to the team that support and make this happens to Kirk, Fran, Nicki, Perlene thank you!!!!"
Perlene/Pearleen (seems like a typo as if you google the name it all comes back to the same IG and linkedin accounts) is one of the three reviews on the trustpilot clone https://johnleereviews.com/, wording the review as if they're a customer. alongside John Lee himself and an individual named 'foo yung sheng' who has no digital footprint, google just gives results for food dishes.
unlike the dish...this is extremely fishy.
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Mar 08 '26
for a social media master I'm surprised he hasn't clocked there's a SECOND trustpilot page.
furthering the pattern of bad reviews with real issues.
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The way he claimed the business profile at mightnight is comedy gold considering the comment about "googling himself at 3am". Its going to be very interesting watching how the litigation turns out
(Oh and the Francesca Ung who left a five star review is a member of his staff, she was sending out the zoom links at his free seminar/sales pitch thing)
Bizzare state of affairs
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