This is disgusting… the amount of emotional harm they are causing is incredible. People being tricked like this will be damaged in a way that makes it impossible to trust or connect with others. They are presumably isolated and lonely already or they would not be paying for a dating site.

This feels to me like it is akin to rape, an emotional rather than physical rape, but it will make them feel powerless and violated and unable to trust others. Our culture tends to downplay emotional trauma as somehow not serious, without realizing that the most damaging part of physical trauma is also the emotional aspect.

This should be prosecuted accordingly, every single person involved should spend decades in prison.