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There's something seriously dodgy going on with Plenty Of Fish. Fake profiles ahoy!

  • 20-06-2014 05:00PM
    #1
    Chin Stroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭


    So I joined up recently for a nose and got chatting to what seemed like a couple of nice girls. Or so I thought.

    My gut feeling wasnt sitting right on some of the replies and questions, they seemed a little too generic, copied and pasted. So I ran some of their pictures through Google Images and whatta ya know. The same picture comes up on multiple profiles. If you go to click on them in Google another girl shows up. So maybe the image was held in Google's cache and the messers just rotate images?

    Ive since heard that Plenty Of Fish employees themselves set these up as the amount of men vs women ration on the site is getting a bit crazy and they want to keep the men hooked, so to speak.

    Here's what I found and this was with just two I did some sleuthing on. Id say the site is full of this kind of thing.


    http://img42.com/bIzhX


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Comments

  • #2
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Ah, your codding me ?


  • #3
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    The sexy singles forum on this site is better. Check it out OP


  • #4
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Maybe those are just women that had a profile. Closed it and then opened another one.

    I think though that you should definetly post their names and images on a whim on the most popular forum on boards. Theyll love that.

    Maybe you should post your own too for us all to have a look at?


  • #5
    mopey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭mopey


    bots fishing for credit card details?


  • #6
    Chin Stroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Chin Stroker


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Maybe those are just women that had a profile. Closed it and then opened another one.
    If you go to click on those links in Google another girl shows up. So maybe the image was held in Google's cache and the messers just rotate images?

    Different girls are showing up in Google's cache with the same image. Dodgy.


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  • #7
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Maybe you should post your own too for us all to have a look at?

    He'll never do that, he'd much rather remain... Incognito?


    ...


    ...


    :(


  • #8
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    What did Plenty of Fish say when you brought this to their attention OP?


  • #9
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Chin Stroker wrote: »
    Different girls are showing up in Google's cache with the same image. Dodgy.

    Dodgy according to you. Doesnt give you the right to repost private images on the web in the absense of proof. You really should remove those links.

    You sound like a catch.


  • #10
    Knasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    I doubt they would go to the bother to be honest. If they want to lie about the number of women on their site (which I have no problem believing they might do), then that is as simple as adjusting a little code. It is doubtful that anyone would, or even could, check. Making up tons of fake profiles, badly, seems like a lot of work incompetently done.


  • #11
    Irishcrx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Irishcrx


    Something Fishy going on alright..


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  • #12
    Maglight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Maglight


    I have a bit of experience working in the online dating industry. It was a constant battle against scammers. As a rule of thumb, if the profile photo looks professional and the person is very good looking, it's probably fake. Online dating is great, but if it looks too good to be true, that's probably because it isn't.


  • #13
    Chin Stroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Chin Stroker


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Dodgy according to you. Doesnt give you the right to repost private images on the web in the absense of proof.

    The images arent private, they're on Google. And the proof is the images.


  • #14
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Dodgy according to you. Doesnt give you the right to repost private images on the web in the absense of proof. You really should remove those links.
    Has the OP not just proven that these particular images are all over google? Hardly private. :confused:


  • #15
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    So are you telling me desperate34 and cantfindamaninreallife69 are not actually meeting me this weekend for long walks on the beach? Ah feck.


  • #16
    urabell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭urabell


    The main problem isn't that they're fake profiles but the fact that neither of those women are attractive


  • #17
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    urabell wrote: »
    The main problem isn't that they're fake profiles but the fact that neither of those women are attractive
    Black & White photos too FFS. I was born in 1975 with colour eyes. :rolleyes:


  • #18
    Chin Stroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Chin Stroker


    No Pants wrote: »
    What did Plenty of Fish say when you brought this to their attention OP?

    I reported the first one and heard nothing back. All her profiles remain online too, which cements my theory and the stories Ive heard that its Plenty Of Fish themselves who generate these profiles.


  • #19
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Chin Stroker wrote: »
    I reported the first one and heard nothing back. All her profiles remain online too, which cements my theory and the stories Ive heard that its Plenty Of Fish themselves who generate these profiles.
    How much do you pay for site access? Or do you?


  • #20
    duffman13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,280 ✭✭✭duffman13


    No Pants wrote: »
    How much do you pay for site access? Or do you?

    It's free apparently so no reason for them to drum up fake profiles


  • #21
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    I'd rather tuna.


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  • #22
    urabell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭urabell


    Show us pics of yourself opie, need to prove that you're real


  • #23
    Chin Stroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Chin Stroker


    No Pants wrote: »
    How much do you pay for site access? Or do you?

    Its free of course. Arent they all?


  • #24
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Chin Stroker wrote: »
    Its free of course. Arent they all?
    I've no idea. I'm happily married and, if I wasn't, the missus catching me on a dating site would hardly improve my situation. :)


  • #25
    LizzieJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭LizzieJones


    Chin Stroker wrote: »
    I reported the first one and heard nothing back. All her profiles remain online too, which cements my theory and the stories Ive heard that its Plenty Of Fish themselves who generate these profiles.

    That would not surprise me in the least.


  • #26
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,496 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The paid sites are worse for it though.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #27
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Is there a way for you as a site user to block profiles that you believe are fake so that you don't see them anymore?


  • #28
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,496 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    No Pants wrote: »
    Is there a way for you as a site user to block profiles that you believe are fake so that you don't see them anymore?

    There's usually a block feature.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #29
    Chin Stroker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 172 ✭✭Chin Stroker


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    The paid sites are worse for it though.

    Really? Name and shame.


  • #30
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,496 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Chin Stroker wrote: »
    Really? Name and shame.

    Well, they want you to pay up so they create fake profiles to entice people.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • #31
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    So it's not plenty of fish, it's Few fish and reflections in the sea...


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