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You acknowledge and agree that some of the profiles posted may be fictitious

by joe golfer
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How Ashley Madison used fake fembots to extract cash from customer's wallets and then tried to figure out how to make it legal.

How Ashley Madison Hid Its Fembot Con From Users and Investigators
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    If that company doesn't get shut down for that obvious fraud, something is wrong with the legal system.
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    Roflmao.

    pwnage on a massive scale.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Saw the thread title and thought Joe was talking about the WF....
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  • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
    Originally Posted by joe golfer View Post

    How Ashley Madison used fake fembots to extract cash from customer's wallets and then tried to figure out how to make it legal.

    How Ashley Madison Hid Its Fembot Con From Users and Investigators
    Part of me is laughing my ass off. My first thought is, how could this same model be used legally, in marketing? What lesson could be learned from this?


    I'm surprised that the site wasn't used to sell escort services (after membership was paid for, and doing it subtly)...or even mass mailing extortion letters to members (from a different address) and just assuming that many of the members were married.

    Frankly, invented profiles give the same experience (maybe even better) than the real thing. It's just that meeting the person wouldn't be possible.


    Heck, 90% of the members here could be invented profiles, and it would be the same experience.
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    • Profile picture of the author socialentry
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      Part of me is laughing my ass off. My first thought is, how could this same model be used legally, in marketing? What lesson could be learned from this?
      Given the state of A.I., it would probably crash and burn for all but the simplest of offers.
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      • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
        You acknowledge and agree that some of the profiles posted may be fictitious

        I thought that was understood on the Warrior Forum.

        Oh... wait...


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    • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      Heck, 90% of the members here could be invented profiles, and it would be the same experience.
      Was it always like this? Or did I just not notice it so much before?
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    • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      I'm surprised that the site wasn't used to sell escort services....
      Um, actually...
      Ashley Madison's parent company secretly operated an escort website
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  • Profile picture of the author joe golfer
    This is funny from the article: "Despite the subterfuge and complicated software tools, the bots didn’t always work out as planned....(sometimes) I found bots messaging each other. Perhaps, as science fiction author William Gibson mused, they were making an escape plan."

    It's kind of like on WF when a person uses obviously fake secondary accounts to flog their WSO in legit threads.
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