I don't understand the mark's thinking process involved here, so these methods seem illogical to me. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the following is how this system pans out. Marks see an advert on CL by a fictional person with certain characteristics looking for certain situations. They reply to that advert. Then they receive an email from an altogether new character, a secret admirer, claiming real life knowledge about the mark, a desire to hook up and custom pictures ready for them on a certain site. Consequently we assume the marks will click the link to see the photos asap, at which point the are presented with a general dating offer. For whatever reason the mark abandons all the previous motivating factors and train of thought, and decides to sign up with this irrelevant offer (irrelevant in that it has nothing to do with any of the previous phases the mark went through, and only is slightly related in that it belongs to the general dating category.)
Is this how this method works?
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