Guy Gets Two Years in Prison For Fake Profiles

ReidBurnham said:
The fact is the guy made a lot of really good money, and if he had played the game a little more intelligently he might still be making money from it.
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For example, he could have incentivized the entire process by "actresses" to play the role of potential swinging couples, and buried the existence of the definition of their role(s) in the fine-print of the ToS that no one ever reads. Any overt complaints and a link to the ToS is given, and a refund is immediately and quietly issued, and business continues as usual. These actors/actresses make $5.00 of every $40.00 that converts, and are required to string them along until some pretext for severing communications comes up; a family emergency, a job change, etc...

All these supposed black hat marketers with their underwear all wadded up, carping in self-righteous indignation about WHAT someone else did, when instead the could be focusing on the HOW, and looking for ways to duplicate, improve and scale-up someone else's business model in order to realize even greater profits than he did, with a higher degree of safety. It's these Pollyannas carping about how someone else isn't black hat that are the ones that really AREN'T black hat. Isn't there a Church Lady forum somewhere, for self-righteous moralists that can't see an economic opportunity when it is kicking them in the shins and calling them names?
 
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^^ you seem to be the only one who's come down with a case of the sandy vagina.

Looks like everyone is mostly just face-palming that this guy is going to be on the wrong end of the occasional ass raping for the next couple years.
 
Grizzy said:
^^ you seem to be the only one who's come down with a case of the sandy va-jay-jay.

Looks like everyone is mostly just face-palming that this guy is going to be on the wrong end of the occasional butt raping for the next couple years.
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I'm the one that took a thread full of inane opinions from face-palming nitwits and turned it into something that might be useful for generating income online for someone who looks for something more online than a pseudo-reality show about butt-raping inmates for trying to get rich.
 
ReidBurnham said:
I'm the one that took a thread full of inane opinions from face-palming nitwits and turned it into something that might be useful for generating income online for someone who looks for something more online than a pseudo-reality show about butt-raping inmates for trying to get rich.
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Nah, you just seem butt hurt to me. :D
 
I agree with Reid. He could've been much smarter about it and still banking. By adding agreements and a TOS that made it legal.
 
ShadeDream said:
I didn't bother reading the article but according to the first sentence it appears that the guy created a fake website. That's fraud and not blackhat.
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YEAP, fake profiles is not the same with stealing or blackmailing :D
 
This is different stuff. Fake profiles isn't illegal.
 
ReidBurnham said:
A lot of self-righteous idiocy here, presuming to tell other people what is and is not black hat. The fact is the guy made a lot of really good money, and if he had played the game a little more intelligently he might still be making money from it. I intend to adopt the exact same business model in the near future. I'm surprised by the number of people that come to a black hat website so that they can moralize and judge other people's actions.
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You, Sir are clearly a Genius. I am sure all those rough looking guys in D-Wing will be rushing to date you.
 
Just read it, and I'm really surprised. I thought he was abusing their CCs or something like that, but he did not actually steal anything. Don't understand how this is against the law, seems like classic black hat stuff, but not really against the law. 99% of dating sites use fake pictures in their ads, so that means all these dating sites are against the law also. Really for me this guy is innocent.
 
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Chicilikit said:
Just read it, and I'm really surprised. I thought he was abusing their CCs or something like that, but he did not actually steal anything. Don't understand how this is against the law, seems like classic black hat stuff, but not really against the law. 99% of dating sites use fake pictures in their ads, so that means all these dating sites are against the law also. Really for me this guy is innocent.
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The devil is in the details and from what I have read it clearly sounds like fraud.

After exchanging a few messages with a number of contacts, the couple were blocked and ordered to pay a subscription fee to continue.

They did - but the interested users suddenly disappeared without trace.

Fearing a scam, TB set up a different profile and received exactly the same messages from the same people.
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Sure the likes of AdultFriendFinder are not exactly angels but like I said the devil is in the details and if you can't comprehend this then you're out of luck.
 
LMFAO - study darn near any of the methods or journeys on this forum and see if those pass a legal "litmus" test. Take your fake profile (everything) methods you think aren't illegal and run those buy your Attorney explaining the "goal" is to make money using fake online personalities, fake reviews, fake view counts, fake comments and see what advice he throws your way.

The "taking of money" is the game changer. You can have a hell of a time pretending to be someone you're not as long as you're not taking money from the victims or spoofing someone's legal identity. Once you start processing credit cards and accepting revenue you are held to a legal definition and set of laws which requires truthfulness, integrity and ethics.

Because people aren't commonly prosecuted for banking using fake profile methods doesn't mean they're legal. I haven't had a speeding ticket in 14 years but every day drive 1-9 miles over the speed limit. I know our local police will let you slide if you're not doing 10 or more mph over the limit. That doesn't mean I'm not breaking the law on a daily basis. The trick is to stay in the grey area and not come up on radar (pun intended).

The HUGE mistake this guy made was not squashing complaints immediately until the toddler could walk on his own.
 
I don't know why he got jailed, half the dating sites uses fake profile, there are sites selliog fake database of profiles. Shame the government didnt go and tackle other dating sites.
 
has to be someone on this forum, its not me btw :)
 
Ha ha ha! 60 % of the people in this forum should be in jail I think! :)
 
Just to clarify the guy didn't get sent to prison for fake profiles.
The guy was sent to prison for CHARGING access to a site filled with fake profiles.
Which is fraud and deception.

If he had used fake profiles and offered free memberships for 6-12 months, until the site had x number of real users before charging for membership, then he would have been fine.
 
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