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The article states: "Remember when I said that certain dating businesses can print money? This is one of them. A 2006 reveals that the company was then bringing in about $45 Million of revenue a year." I'm wondering what the missing word is after "2006". Any clues? Where did the revenue figure come from?
The town I'm at is infested with so-called "bandit signs" advertising "Soandso buys houses. Soandso pays cash." with a phone number to call. It strikes me as odd that there's little to no enforcement of not only the signs but of the extremely shady business practices therein.
> company charges their customers from $3,000 to over $15,000 for their matchmaking services Wait, what, how?!
I never saw any "Single?" signs, but I do wonder about all the signs I see around here offering cash for diabetic test strips... I'm guessing those are given out free by some program and then sold, but don't you kind of need those if you are getting them?
My assumption with the diabetic strips is that well insured people can get large quantities from their doctors at the expense of the insurance provider and then sell them for a profit for cash. Alternatively, people in the medical supply supply chain likely have good sources for large amounts of test strips they could offload at a profit. This is purely my guess having seen the same signs and wondered the same things…
I remember seeing one of these signs in 2013. I was immediately intrigued since, outside of facebook and craigslist, there was very little web activity in my state, much less my impoverished hometown of 4000. The fact that the town's name was misspelled in the URL was even more interesting. I also tracked the source down to NuStar Solutions. After a bit of digging, I found that just before the signs went up, a Craigs…
Seems bit odd to risk a scam (and the attention it brings along) if you are generating $45M revenue. I would rather just pay out and keep under the radar, considering that the company seems shady enough as-is.
“Single? Would you like to be?”
That's a really interesting read. FTA: "My first stop: WHOIS. The WHOIS database is designed to serve as a master directory of all domain name owners, although in my experience there are no controls enforcing the submission of valid information. Moreover, most domain name registrars now allow registrants to register anonymously by serving as a proxy for the registrant. Despite these shortcomings, it’s always a good p…
Who is going to miss WHOIS? I'm not. If it was opt-in I bet nobody would even reveal their details at all. At worst, you're just accidentally doxing yourself and setting yourself up for a social engineering attack. For example, name, email, and (wrong but close) address were enough to get someone into this guy's Amazon account: https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backd...
The article states: "Remember when I said that certain dating businesses can print money? This is one of them. A 2006 reveals that the company was then bringing in about $45 Million of revenue a year." I'm wondering what the missing word is after "2006". Any clues? Where did the revenue figure come from?
> company charges their customers from $3,000 to over $15,000 for their matchmaking services Wait, what, how?!
I dunno how prevalent this has been in the US, but back then was kinda the high time of "subscription phishing" in Germany.
Whole websites were designed around the idea of making the user to "agree" with a "signup" get to the actual content, and in the small print (on another page) it would hide costs of subscription for said agreement.
So naive, new to the internet people, like my mother. Would sign up on some weird site, to look for generic birthday greetings and a couple of weeks later would get bills per mail, followed by rather generic letters from a lawyer, and debt collector letters, all over a couple of hundreds of euros.
She didn't end up paying, anything because I told her it was a scam, but many others did, that whole period also lead to the creation of the "Button-Lösung" [0] where users have to give explicit consent to paying anything, by clicking a button.
But back then the majority of average people were still a bit unsure about the legal ramifications of agreeing to something on this Internet thing. So with a bit of pressure, and legal speak, you could (and in some cases still can) convince them to pay a whole lot of money because they entered their information somewhere online.