Not just that, there was one dating site that I joined after a friend of mine recommended it to me, and I soon realized that said site was “recycling” direct messages. What I mean is, they took real messages that their users had sent to other people on the site and they sent these messages to new users. In this way they roped people into paying for premium so that you can respond to messages. And canceling the membership was really difficult too. And when I went to their terms and conditions I saw that they had sneakily put in the ToC, that no one reads, that the site was “for entertainment” and some additional wording, in order to be able to defend what they were doing. At the end of the day it’s basically fraud IMO, and super scummy behavior even if they are able to get away with it legally.
Yea, it really frustrates me that some companies can create bot accounts and basically lie to their customers and trick them into paying and it doesn't seem to be fraudulent in a legal sense. But maybe it is. Maybe there's a legal case for fraud against some of these dating sites/apps. Anyone know?
