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by sosuke 5189 days ago
Starting a dating site with fake or scraped profiles just makes it a ghost town. New members would leave quickly before you built up a real user base.
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Not if you have bots messaging new members from fake accounts, and/or having them respond to queries.
Well, they'll still leave quickly, but they'll stay long enough for you to get their credit card info.