Ashley Madison faked female profiles to lure men in, hacked data suggest
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Source: Washington Post
Ashley Madison has long claimed, in triumphant news releases and slick, Web-ready graphics, that it is one of the few dating sites that really clicks with women. According to statistics CEO Noel Biderman has trumpeted in the media, Ashley Madison enjoys an overall 70/30 gender split with a 1:1 male/female ratio among the under-30 set.
But the user records laid bare by hackers last week tell a very different story: Of the more than 35 million records released, only 5 million a mere 15 percent actually belonged to women.
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Until mid-2014, the company openly ran a program called Ashleys Angels, in which paid AM employees messaged visitors from sexy female profiles that werent conspicuously identified as fictional. (They were disclaimed, of course, in the companys small print, where AM explained the program was just an attempt to provide entertainment.)
Disgruntled ex-employees have also blown the whistle on what one described, in a 2013 legal filing, as an industry-wide practice. In e-mails revealed by the recent hack and surfaced by the Daily Dot, Louise Van der Velde, a former spokeswoman for the site, threatens to go to the media with the claim that there are really no women on the site and that they simply rip people off.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/08/25/ashley-madison-faked-female-profiles-to-lure-men-in-hacked-data-suggest/
V0ltairesGh0st
(306 posts)Cheaters gonna cheat...not news....wanna bet all dating sites do this.... ?
bananas
(27,509 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,342 posts)who would have believed they were all fake?
lol, with heaps of sarcasm
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Should I still get an account?
unblock
(52,352 posts)Jerry442
(1,265 posts)Everybody knows dat.
7962
(11,841 posts)15% women and 85% men.
lostnfound
(16,192 posts)Husbands much more likely to kill wives, than wives killing husbands. If ithe AM hack were 50-50, there'd be a lot more murders in the aftermath of this hack.
Now there will be more divorces instead.
Orrex
(63,228 posts)Hadn't thought of it like that, I think you're right. Way to see the bright side!
lostnfound
(16,192 posts)But after seeing a number of "investigation discovery shows", I'm more aware of how some women become victims of their spouses' jealous rage, even over relatively innocent flirtations. Ever since the AM hack occurred, I've been thinking about the sad fallout including kids and possible murder victims.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Some make it public, others do not.
This is nothing new.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Shocked. I am just shocked.
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)They create fake profiles of women to lure in men.
Orrex
(63,228 posts)And I'll bet that this "Ashley Madison" person doesn't even actually answer her emails.
svpadgham
(670 posts)I really thought that I had something going on with mkcfyla654.
The Green Manalishi
(1,054 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)philosslayer
(3,076 posts)You can't trust anyone anymore
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)hunter
(38,334 posts)... imagine all the people cheating on the internet with artificially intelligent 'bots, and when they want to take it further than naked Skype and penis pics, maybe they can have an affair with an actual physical robot, at "their" place.
Do you suppose that would be the end of all these scams? Would these cheaters find the "perfect partner" to have an affair with?
Maybe I come from a family of cheapskates, but it was generally agreed if you had to pay for sex (beyond birth control, toys, etc.) then you probably weren't doing it right. Likewise, you could never "owe" anybody sex.
From that perspective sites like Ashley Madison don't make any sense.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Inside joke
bananas
(27,509 posts)We're talking about Katya, right?
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)So you can even get jilted by sexbots
cwydro
(51,308 posts)What idiots.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Until this thing blew up the owners must have been LOL on the 40ft yachts.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Gothmog
(145,631 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,225 posts)Rozlee
(2,529 posts)My ex-brother-in-law had an account on an online affairs service and wasn't even married. Said he wanted a no-strings attached relationship and figured he'd get it with a married woman. In the two years he was a member, he only had three dates. Two of them looked like they rassled gators and the third one wanted $1,000 from him. Seriously, what did an old grizzled ex-Marine that had gone to seed expect? Pretty girls can walk into the nearest nightclub and have their pick of the litter.
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)briv1016
(1,570 posts)timesup
(88 posts)All those arrange sex tonight site ads including silly random popups like Kristy wants to meet you tonight, send her a reply here, are excrement.
Using your zip code which sites can obviously pull without our permission, to personalize their pathetic pitches, I am sure you have all seen ads that entice or try to scare you into getting all kinds of things.
Every sex site that comes around, shows 9s and 10s ahead of your registration/payment only to bait horny morans with $, it's a necessary evil for them, if you saw whose really waiting for you in your area, would you join?
Just remember, getting laid randomly is easy for beautiful women, who for whatever reason want that, the internet is not needed as a middle man at all, so ofc these sites are lying their asses off.
RussBLib
(9,043 posts)Women just don't seek that out as often as men, or as often as men like to think they might.