dating sites using fake profiles to lure u in

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ke-profiles-to-get-members-to-upgrade-service

what...?????????!!!!!! fake profiles on those honest dating sites!!!!???????!!

 

TDK take note of the bolded part too:

An online dating service has agreed to stop luring the lovelorn with bogus profiles of prospective dates. JDI Dating Ltd. made the settlement, announced today, with the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC said FDI was computer-generating alluring, yet fake folks who would get people to upgrade to paid memberships.
JDI is based in England and has 18 websites. They've got names like cupidswand.com, flirtcrowd.com and findmelove.com. JDI's website says the company has 12 million customers over all the sites, with 20 new sign-ups every minute.
The FTC says this is its first action against an online dating service. It detailed the scam:

"The defendants offered a free plan that allowed users to set up a profile with personal information and photos. As soon as a new user set up a free profile, he or she began to receive messages that appeared to be from other members living nearby, expressing romantic interest or a desire to meet. However, users were unable to respond to these messages without upgrading to a paid membership. Membership plans cost from $10 to $30 per month, with subscriptions generally ranging from one to 12 months.
"The messages were almost always from fake, computer-generated profiles — 'Virtual Cupids' — created by the defendants, with photos and information designed to closely mimic the profiles of real people."

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One of those fake profiles is shown in the picture above. Her name is HeidiHi, and she enjoys spending time with family, going to bars and pubs, and dancing. Someone named Roxanne says HeidiHi has the "best sickest sense of humour ever and is all round great fun." Oh, and don't worry folks, when it comes to smoking, she's "trying to quit."
The FTC is making JDI pay site users $616,165 in redress. And the settlement prohibits LTI from misrepresenting "material facts" and its policies on refunds and cancellations.

NPR has covered deception in online dating before. Earlier this year, All Things Considered Host Audie Cornish spoke with Christian Rudder, president of OkCupid, about how that company has manipulated some dating profiles in the name of research. OkCupid basically told people they weren't compatible when they were, or that they were, when they really weren't.

 

What am I suppose to be taking away from this? Have we spoken about this before?

 

You've referenced OKCupid for stats on discussions.

 

That's why I'm sticking with OkCupid. I've thought about Match but the idea of paying for a dating site doesn't appeal to me given how the gender advantages are so imbalanced.

 

i thoght u had to pay on that one

 

How so?

 

Oh ok well like I said in the past and so have other men every race of woman seems to consistently say in bold letters NO BM. Don't really see that with other races.

 

They have a paid version called A-List that gives you a few more features for a few dollars a month. The pricing actually varies by age and gender, if you change your age to be in your early 20s it's probably $3-4 bucks a month. If you're older it costs more.

Because women can basically sit back and wait to be approached while not having to send out many messages. There are a few that do but generally if you're a woman on a dating site the only thing that you really have to do is exist. If you look halfway decent you'll get tons of guys making the first move.

 

Yah it wasn't about that, it was about income level, etc. and attraction/compatibility, which is what they got in trouble with.

but anyway.....I've never seen that particular wording. I have seen where someone would put they ONLY date black women/men (whatever it is) and some that will put things like being racially open.

Interestingly enough, I've been hearing a lot of women say that they refuse to date middle eastern men lately.

 

I didn't know that about different prices for different age groups. I do know that some of the sites give women more privileges than men for free, or at a cost.

 

I think that POF does that, for example I think that only women are allowed to send pics. That, and the interface is straight out of 1998.

On the other hand, I did meet one of my good friends on that site so I guess it isn't all bad. And women seem more inclined to send the first message which is also nice.

 

oh in that case you are absolutely right and it gives a very false sense of reality. Guys hitting you up doesn't mean they like you just means they'd hit if given the chance and it makes women think they have far more good options than they really do.

 

How often do you look at female profiles

 

Sounds suspect if you ask me

 

I said hearing, not reading. I'm talking about out in life. I don't know that they are actually putting things like that on profiles. I think women are less likely to put it out on blast and just don't respond to the men they aren't interested in, or they will say something in a direct message.

 

I got pulled into one of those reunion sites

I received a email message from the site that someone I knew was looking for me there

So of course I signed up to see if some of my people from HS (you know the site just had to have a sign up fee) were trying to get in touch. As you can imagine, the 'person' who was really looking for me was just the webmaster/bot

I ended up getting my money back after telling them how shitty they were...I know I wrote about this before

That was like the one idiot moment I had while using the net lol

That.....and almost giving out bank info to one of those scammers with a million dollars

 

When I have some time I'll show you. I know it's probably hard to imagine bit it's very real boo.

 

yeah....i seen em too

 

Oh I don't doubt it. I've seen men put things in their headline like no BBW, ONLY black women, etc.