I guess they think it's just entertainment and good for their bottom line if lots of scammers and their marks are luring each other into more and more activity on Tinder.įinally, if you are a government employee of your country, your data may even be collected by foreign intelligence agencies. I don't know why Tinder doesn't do more to stop this. But the taste for Asian women has eclipsed eastern European for western men, the target demographic of these phishing scammers. In decades past it was pictures of hot Russian women fronting these chat and email based scams in Yahoo Personals, etc. The data can also be sold to identity theft scammers years later. Your data sets are then bought and sold among scammers who will use the information over years to try to hook you with scams that start with AI trolling bots, but quickly can switch over to a live actor if needed, once you are hooked. They coordinate with other bots/workers, also matched to you, to aggregate all the data including pictures, phone numbers, your social media accounts, whatever you give them. They collect everything you say as a potential data point. They usually ask you "how long you've been on here" and "what are you looking for here." They claim to be recently arrived to your area to develop business opportunities. Experts attribute this spike to the pandemic which many scammers used as an excuse to justify why they can meet their victims in person. It's a mix of bots and digital "piece workers" deployed into Tinder behind fake profiles. Recent studies show that the total losses caused by online romance scams quadrupled from 75 to 304 million between 20 with a shocking 50 increase last year alone. Time is money for these people so pushing for personal information right off the bat is a solid indicator of a data miner. So be careful everyone! One tell you can use to identify these people is the fact that they will almost always immediately ask for your number or email address and give some excuse why they can’t talk over the app. Knowing their chances of getting info out of you is minute. But I noticed if you encounter one of these suspicious accounts and immediately tell them you suspect them to be a data miner they will usually unmatch you or just ghost you. This was back in 2010 so I’d assume over the past decade their resources have probably gotten more advanced. Which they will use to further their con or just outright sell to companies with a blurb of descriptive information about you so they can try again using some other means or platform. Your name, age, date of birth, email address, phone number and much more. They are looking for personal information. They said they could make a few grand a piece per month by doing this. All fake profiles with fake pictures and information. They had dozens and dozens of different accounts on any number of dating apps. A couple I knew in college did this instead of working regular odd jobs that college kids usually get. They are mining data to sell to advertising companies and the like. The problem was detailed in new research this week from cybersecurity company Sophos that detailed how CryptoRom scammers have become increasingly sophisticated.
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