GRUENDERSZENE - June 27 - Lovoo CEO and co-founder, Benjamin Bak, decided to resign after the police raided Lovoo's Dresden office earlier this month. Benjamin Bak and his co-CEO, Alexander Friede, were both arrested and later released from custody on bail. They are being investigated over claims that they were creating fake female profiles to entice men into signing up.
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This article fails to tell you what they were doing with the profiles. Is it a crime to have fake profiles? Is that what they did? Did they email people from fake profiles? If it's a crime to have fake profiles then every profile company out there that sells profiles will be in a world of shit. A lot of people buy dating profiles to make their site look busy and not empty. Is that a crime too?
Posted by: David | Jun 28, 2016 at 12:38 PM
David you may need to ask a lawyer, but I'd imagine that selling fake profiles would not be a crime if the data was not in breach of terms of service of anyone who had entered it. Buying dating profiles probably wouldn't be a problem if done legally either. However, accepting money based on fake profiles or fake messages probably is illegal. More difficult question is whether it's illegal to allow scammers from Nigeria to create fake profiles and send fake messages (thus the site doesn't have to create, buy, or manage the fake profiles personally).
Posted by: illegal? | Jul 13, 2016 at 02:22 AM