For the completely unethical, perhaps.

Delivering food is a legitimate, respectable and productive job. Fraudulently deceiving lonely men to coerce them into paying for more fraudulent interactions, less so.

I wonder how long before an article is published about someone committing suicide when they find out they were talking to a man in the Philippines rather than the woman they thought they were talking to.

People manipulating and pretending to be someone they are not has been going on since the internet has been a thing and provided the ability to be anon. "Nobody knows you are a dog on the internet" is like 1996.

And theft murder has been a thing for as long as there have been people, as have all sorts of bad things. So what? We can just do anything?

They could be doing the society a service in a roundabout Darwinian fashion.

I have rarely seen such heartless victim blaming on hackernews...

It does seem morally gray, but I was just amazed by how one of those workers makes better money than in his last job as a web developer in the Philippines.

I'm sure they aren't all clearing $500 a day, but that's what... the equivalent of a $130k/year salary? That's better than a lot of US-based web developer roles, let alone in the rest of the world.

Only requires a bit of creative thinking and being morally bankrupt to be good at something like this.

I agree. I honestly think there’s a cohort of creative types around the world who would love this job.