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I have a gut feeling that there are many fake accounts on other dating sites as well. One thing I've noticed with tinder in Israel. you will see profiles of pr
by compsciphd 4y ago
I have a gut feeling that there are many fake accounts on other dating sites as well. One thing I've noticed with tinder in Israel. you will see profiles of presumambly "jewish" women (i.e. jewish names / hebrew writing) where it says their university is al quds university or al aqsa university.
While its conceptually possible that a jewish woman might have attended them, I find it somewhat implausible (especially in number and combined with the style of pictures). Its as if someone just created profiles randomly that might fit the general geographic area.
The primary Q I would have is if this is generated by Tinder itself or by external scammers who don't know better.
- eru 4y ago> The primary Q I would have is if this is generated by Tinder itself or by external scammers who don't know better. I would strongly suspect the latter. The former could get them sued for securities fraud in the US (because everything is securities fraud in the US). It's much easier to justify a slip up in your spam / scam prevention than to justify actively scamming your users yourself. The former keeps your hands clean in front of a judge.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoInteresting strategy and certainly [legally] safer than Match paying women to string lonely men along.
- eru 4y agoI saw some of this strategy myself (in much more benign form): In any job, when we are doing any monitoring of any process (technical or business process), and the numbers look bad we investigate until we either find and fix the root cause which might be a genuine problem or a problem with the monitoring. If the numbers look dandy and the system ain't obviously on fire, we don't spend sleepless nights looking for the possibility that we are having both an underlying problem and a problem with the measurement at the same time. You can see that given these incentives, and enough random variations, the system can drift over time, without anyone acting in bad faith or fraudulently.
- jack_pp 4y agoConsidering what shenanigans uber did to fool govts around the world I wouldn't be surprised if some Tinder execs got into a private meeting and agreed to pay some 3rd party to create fake profiles for them. wouldn't exactly require extraordinary opsec to achieve
- eru 4y agoBut why would they, if they don't have to? Why run the risk? Third parties were already creating fake profiles (for scamming etc). Then all Tinder has to do, is carefully deciding on how exactly they fight those fake profiles, to apply 'evolutionary' pressure in a direction they like. No need to get their hands dirty.