Porn spammers invade online dating services
MSNBC exposes the latest sleazy ploy used by porn spammers — placing fake ads in online personals, then steering respondents to porn sites or phone sex.
Her online personal ad said she liked the outdoors, camping, hiking, biking, blading, and “yes, even fishing.” Don was online looking for love, like millions of other men, and thought “Amyloov” was sexy, so he dropped her a note through Yahoo.com’s personals. But finding out if Amyloov was “the one” came with a price tag — $4 a minute, in fact. Amyloov turned out to be just a cleverly disguised advertisement for a pay-per-minute sex line.
This is actually the third article in an MSNBC series on online dating and personals. The first article looked at the business of online personals services; the second article, entitled "a generation of unabashed flirts," looked at some people who use online personals.
