The FTC issues hefty fine to the manager of 18 dating sites for ‘fake profiles’

Posted by DomainGang on October 30, 2014, at 9:32 pm

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a fine to the British dating services company JDI Dating, for using computer generated user profiles, referred to as “virtual cupids”. These fake profiles were used as a bait, tricking users into upgrading their own accounts to paid memberships. Upon creating their profile, the users would receive messages from […]

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