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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by daniel-cussen on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:08AM (#11166101)
I ran a website like that, it was all scammers. On both sides. I left because I didn't want my name attached, but it organically attracted both scummy type 1 users and scummy type 2 users, where both were necessary for interaction to take place.

EDIT: I should add that I wasn't made fully aware of the depth of the scamminess of the whole thing until I accidentally tried cleaning up some "offers" and found it was all scummy offers to scummy counterparties.

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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by civilian on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @01:56PM (#11169170)
How did the scams work? Why were the users scummy? Was it just faking social interactions?
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Re:Fake girlfriend, revisited by daniel-cussen on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:08PM (#11169287)
The scams were hardcore; yes; and no. No fake social interactions, it was actually just scammers trying to get people to order goods on the pretense they would then ship them to Buenos Aires, for example. That example, oh man, I couldn't believe how sketchy, how beyond sketchy, that website was. Or is.
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