Fake Love

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This is incredible.

Channel 4 News lifts the lid on dating sites.


''The team members would scour social networking websites and steal people's photos to use on their fake profiles.

Ryan said: "You'd take Helga from Iceland and make her into Helen from Manchester and write a profile. You'd use her features and invent a whole new person."

Each team member would be running as many as 15 different personalities: old and young, male and female. They would use these fake profiles to send flirty messages to innocent users - as many as 400 messages an hour were sent by the team.''

The point of the "pseudo" team was to convince innocent daters to part with cash. A user can register on a Global Personals website for free. But to reply to messages they must pay a subscription - usually around £20 a month. The more messages the pseudo team sent from their fake profiles, the more likely innocent users would be to subscribe, or continue their monthly subscription''

http://www.channel4.com/news/fools-f...-dupes-clients

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Re: Fake Love

And Scammers do the same which is why i think dating sites should require photographic proof of id prior to authorising a profile on their site. Or at least credit card verfication similar to that used by Paypal, where a small fee is (less then £1) is take from card holders card, where the profile creater must then confirm amount take prior to profile going live, or both card verification and photo id verification. That way a site can confirm the card holders UK address matches that of the cards registered address and that it was the card holder (as fraudsters likely can not access the card holders online account) that gave them the card details and therefore varified there identity.

So this dating site in the article, has not only commited fraud, but breach of copyright and image rights of the person in the photo they used too.