They also cited «distractions» as having an effect — referring to media accusations that
the company created fake profiles to lure members to the site.
He claims that rather than being victims of scammers, dating sites allow professional scammers — mostly from Nigeria, he says — to operate on their sites because the government have become wise to
companies creating the fake profiles themselves.
Not exact matches
One of former Ashley Madison employees sued the
company for $ 20 million citing injury earned while
creating thousands of the site's sex bots:
Fake profiles designed to initiate communication.
«Reputable online dating
companies are keener than ever to clamp down on
fake profiles created by scammers, and we are now even more effective in helping our clients prevent these
fake profiles from ever appearing on their websites.»
The
company has been accused of
creating fake profiles in order to lure customers to purchase premium services.
«In the light of recent publications in the media accusing one or many dating application services, I judged necessary to have a closer look at the state of our user base and to certify that it is exclusively using a registration submitted through «Facebook connect» and consequently can not be composed of any kind of
fake profile created by the
company itself, and to guarantee the proper functioning of the registration system on the Happn app.»
But with the issue of
company -
created fake profiles in circulation again, we may see more
companies looking to reassure singles of their practises in this area.
The Nebraska - based
company said IAC had violated several federal and state laws by «developing, approving and posting [Meltech's] photographs on their web sites in
fake profiles», and collecting membership fees from those who
created the
profiles.
In today's SkaDate Dating Software digest: Queen Sofia of Spain gets involved in a notorious case featuring dating site advertisement, big names compete in online dating business, while UK's largest internet dating
company is exposed of
creating fake profiles to make users pay for the service.
This year the
company was at the centre of a BBC investigation which accused Cupid of
creating fake profiles in order to lure paying members back to the site.
TECH CRUNCH - Aug 31 - That's hard to believe, given that the leaked emails also revealed the
company paid people to
create fake profiles.
GIZMODO - Aug 27 - According to Ashley Madison's internal emails, the
company was actively paying people to
create fake profiles.