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After fleeing a restaurant when a women he met online wasn’t who he thought she was, one man was surprised to get a call from the police.
Some ask what’s in a name, but women with these monikers proved to be more popular than any others on one well-known dating app.
What’s it like to dupe lonely Japanese guys and get paid to do it? We talk to someone who did just that.
Dating is never easy, is it? Going out and meeting strangers and talking to them can be painful, awkward, and downright terrifying. Fortunately, Internet dating sites have helped us cut through the trial-and-error process to find people we have deep, personal connections with — or, at least, who swiped right.
Unfortunately, online dating is also ripe for abuse, exploitation, and scams. If ever you needed a cautionary tale for being careful about who you give your money to, this group of dating site executives who ran multiple scam sites should suffice. Of the 2.7 millions users on the site, only one was a woman. The rest of the “women” the male members were chatting with online were all paid fakes!
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