PAPER: Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.12593.pdf

article about: "Are online dating sites posting fake profiles to lure subscribers?"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/article-about-are-online-dating-sites.html

article: Bots roam the internet, threatening businesses and consumers
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/08/article-bots-roam-internet-threatening.html

Ghostwriters chat with women online in order to tempt them into dates with their clients.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/01/ghostwriters-chat-with-women-online-in.html

Online dating in a world that has chat bots that really sound like humans
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/08/online-dating-in-world-that-has-chat.html

ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/thispersondoesnotexistcom-uses-ai-to.html

PAPER: A Replication Study: Machine Learning Models
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/paper-replication-study-machine.html
  Novel Artificial Intelligence-based system to counter online dating frauds
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/novel-artificial-intelligence-based.html

Yahoo article: What is the future of online dating?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/06/yahoo-article-what-is-future-of-online.html

BBC article: Dating app scammers spotted by AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48472811
 
UK online vigilantes who expose dating fraudsters
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/02/uk-online-vigilantes-who-expose-dating.html

ONLINE DATING INDUSTRY: Deep Learning-Powered 'Fake Faces' Will Transform Catfishing
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/online-dating-industry-deep-learning.html

article about "The Tinder Hacker"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/05/article-about-tinder-hacker.html

Match user alleges site spams paying users with fake profiles
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/05/match-user-alleges-site-spams-paying.html

ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/thispersondoesnotexistcom-uses-ai-to.html

Matchmakers Emerge as an Antidote to the Agony of Online Dating ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/matchmakers-emerge-as-antidote-to-agony.html

article about: "Are online dating sites posting fake profiles to lure subscribers?"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/article-about-are-online-dating-sites.html

PAPER: A Replication Study: Machine Learning Models
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/paper-replication-study-machine.html

Novel Artificial Intelligence-based system to counter online dating frauds
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/novel-artificial-intelligence-based.html

about article "Wake-up Call, eHarmony Sold For A Song"

https://internetdating.typepad.com/files/acquisition_eharmony.pdf
https://internetdating.typepad.com/courtland_brooks/2018/10/wake-up-call-eharmony-sold-for-a-song.html


eHarmony's CEO Discusses Artifical Intelligence ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/eharmonys-ceo-discusses-artifical.html
It is all a HOAX, a FRAUD.

He mistakes Artifical Intelligence with a Behavioural Recommender System!


eHarmony should be closed forever for fraud!
The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is ONLY a 18+  years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons. It is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use the Big Five normative test in year 2018. 
  eHarmony was copycatted in several countries like
the online dating sites EliteSingles / SilverSingles in Canada, Australia, USA, UK, Chile, Mexico; eDarling in Spain, German, France, Russia;
also TeAmo in Russia is another copycat of eHarmony;
esync (eSynchrony) in Singapore,
MiMediaManzana in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Chile, etc.,
Marrily in India
and
LemonSwan in Germany and other countries. 

The key to long-lasting romance; COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html 
     
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html    

about article: 'I paid GBP 3,000 to a dating agency, but there weren't enough men'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/paid-3000-dating-agency-werent-enough-men/
The dating industry has recently come under scrutiny following concerns about unfair contract terms and practices.

The UK CMA is investigating suspected breaches of consumer protection law by a company in the online dating sector.
https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/online-dating-services

 The CMA is concerned about potential unfair contract terms and unfair commercial practices including:

•     how online dating services are advertised and described to consumers
•     privacy and use of consumers’ data
•     subscription, cancellation and variation contract terms

Please see:
Last May 2016, I suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html

Also be alerted several complaints about Match dot com suggest ... database is full of old & inactive profiles, scammers, fake profiles, etc!
Perhaps Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. ???
 
Please see also:
LAWSUIT Chad Perkins et al. v. Match Group Inc. et al., case number 1:17-cv-2988
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/lawsuit-chad-perkins-et-al-v-match.html 

Consumer advocates complain about privacy at online dating sites in Germany.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/consumer-advocates-complain-about.html

USA FTC and Western Union Refunds
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/11/usa-ftc-and-western-union-refunds.html
 
Female Journalist from The Sun UK testing EliteSingles.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/female-journalist-from-sun-uk-testing.html

about article EliteSingles full of fake profiles / Beware of sharks in the dating pool
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/about-article-elitesingles-full-of-fake.html

EliteSingles USA compared to tallest 2 active USA NBA players 221 cm (7 ft 3 in).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/elitesingles-usa-compared-to-tallest-2.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/03/if-elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-creates.html

7ft 7in British actor; the UK's tallest man, dies of heart failure, aged 36 / Please compare with EliteSingles UK and USA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/7ft-7in-british-actor-uks-tallest-man.html

Kaspersky October 2017 research: Dangerous liaisons: Investigating the security of online dating apps (part 2)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/kaspersky-october-2017-research.html

Dangerous Liaisons: is everyone doing it online? (part 1)
Kaspersky August 2017 research: Dangerous Liaisons: is everyone doing it online?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/10/kaspersky-august-2017-research.html

article: Why 2016 Will Be an Even Scarier Year for Internet Security

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rami-essaid/why-2016-will-be-an-even-_b_9082320.html

Krebs on Security article: "A Look Inside Cybercriminal Call Centers"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/krebs-on-security-article-look-inside.html

Dating Apps Linked To Rise In Crimes (mostly Tinder)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35276415/figures-suggest-rise-in-crimes-linked-to-dating-apps
http://www.hngn.com/articles/168619/20160111/dating-apps-linked-rise-crimes.htm
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dating-apps-lead-7-fold-7152794

Krebs on Security article: "A Look Inside Cybercriminal Call Centers"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/krebs-on-security-article-look-inside.html

Krebs on Security article: "A Look Inside Cybercriminal Call Centers"

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/01/a-look-inside-cybercriminal-call-centers/
http://globaldatinginsights.com/11012016-researcher-looks-inside-crooked-call-centres-dating-scams/

Krebs on Security article: Fraudsters Automate Russian Dating Scams 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/krebs-on-security-article-fraudsters.html

ONLINE DATING SCAM ALERT (JDI Dating)

 https://www.datingwebsitereview.net/online-dating-scam-alert-jdi-dating-cupidswand-com-others/
http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/141028jdidatingcmpt.pdf

Jason Lee from Dating Website Review:
"I am pleased to share the U.S. Federal Trade Commission today levied a substantial fine against http://www.jdidating.com/ (JDI Dating) which covers misleading billing practices and completely fake dating profiles that were sending emails to unsuspecting victims in order to trick them into paying upgrade fees. Here is a copy of FTC complaint again JDI Dating and the company owner William Mark Thomas."

featured at OPW last April 2012, 2 years ago

2 years ago, I was featured at OPW.

That was an April Fools Day, but I really think every day is a Fools Day for daters.

I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.

The Big Five (a.k.a. Five Factor, BIG 5 or OCEAN model) normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.  eHarmony is a 13+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud. The same for sites like them.



With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever because they are HOAXES based on a Big Scientific FRAUD.

What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.