Leaving a fake review for a friend’s business isn’t support. It’s lying on their behalf.

Helping someone by lying puts your friend in a position they never asked for. The review reaches a stranger who is deciding whether to trust the place, and the answer you handed them is false. If it unravels, the damage lands on the business rather than on the person who typed it. That is an odd gift to give somebody you care about.

There is a real version of this. Go in, buy something, write what actually happened, tell people you know. Honest support travels slower and it does not collapse.