{"id":5034,"date":"2025-05-28T11:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:11:19","slug":"the-guy-behind-the-fake-dating-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=5034","title":{"rendered":"The Guy Behind the Fake Dating Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"184\">\n<p data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"301\">At a techno party in Athens, I met a French expat with an unusual job\u2014he managed <strong data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"300\">fake profiles on dating sites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"643\">He worked as a \u201cchat moderator,\u201d a legal and remote job where he pretended to be women on dating apps. The reason? Dating platforms are flooded with men, and to keep them engaged\u2014and subscribed\u2014they create fake female profiles. His job was to chat with these men, keep their hopes up, and make sure they <em data-start=\"607\" data-end=\"627\">never actually met<\/em> the fake girls.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"645\" data-end=\"964\">He got paid \u20ac0.09 per message and could earn around \u20ac10 an hour. His company handled many dating apps, creating all kinds of fake personas\u2014sexy, shy, religious\u2014based on what the male users were looking for. All employees could reply to messages on any fake profile, and everything was monitored to avoid outright scams.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"1211\">Though the job was manipulative, he enjoyed the freedom, the anonymity, and even the bizarre conversations about fetishes and fantasies. His only rule? Never cross the line into real fraud. That was left to the scammers\u2014though the line was thin.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1317\">So next time you&#8217;re messaging someone on a dating app&#8230; you might just be chatting with a guy like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a techno party in Athens, I met a French expat with an unusual job\u2014he managed fake profiles on dating sites. He worked as a \u201cchat moderator,\u201d a legal and remote job where he pretended to be women on dating apps. The reason? Dating platforms are flooded with men, and to keep them engaged\u2014and subscribed\u2014they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5036,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}