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Lonely Hearts Tricked Into Paying For Spam

stuff.co.nz — An Australian Court has granted interim orders against three companies over allegations of setting up false dating profiles and SMS spamming.

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  • nahsrocketeer75, on 06/02/2009, -1/+14There's something extra scummy about taking advantage of lonely people.
  • Firefoot, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5Those dogs need to be punished.
  • SpyDerMann, on 06/03/2009, -0/+4The other day I saw an ad for a dating site, and saw this familiar picture of a girl who was supposedly from Latin America. Hey I think I got a deja vu feeling. Where have I seen her before?

    Ah, I remember now. She's a japanese bikini idol. Hmmmmm. I didn't know japanese idols were born in Latin America.
  • ra9e, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3I'm so ronrey : (
  • norman619, on 06/03/2009, -1/+4Are you coming out to us?
  • bitterbug, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Dating sites will also use employees to create fake profiles that message you in the hopes of getting you to go from free to paid. I knew an employee of one site and she said that it was actively encouraged.
    Since I got this information from the employee and not from observing it in action, I won't name the company. But if you're on a singles site that has paid upgrades, think twice about doing it just to answer some hotty.
    Plus there's tons of free sites out there now.
  • xero69, on 06/04/2009, -0/+1Wait, you mean that hot Russian woman I sent $1500 won't be buying a plane ticket and flying to America next week?
  • marmotjmarmot, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1not the same by a long shot.
  • norman619, on 06/03/2009, -1/+1Latin America is the other Japan. DUH!
  • inactive, on 06/03/2009, -2/+1hey Paul, I've been a fan of yorus for quite some time. I think you're really cool and we should chat some time. Text me :D
  • oblivionatm, on 06/03/2009, -2/+1Having not read the caption under the headline, i had myself hoping against hope that they were somehow tricked into purchasing actual canned spam in mass quantities. :-/
  • midbc, on 06/03/2009, -5/+2lonely no just stupid
  • ShrayMonks, on 06/03/2009, -6/+1http://instanttrap.com

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