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I would absolutely love for you to use my matchmaking service.
The overwhelming number of people will not, and for some of them, it will prove to be a mistake.
Some people will be taken by scams.
Be aware that:
One business model which scam dating websites use is to not merely charge a monthly fee, but to charge for each communication.
A given scam dating website might hundreds of scam profiles people who:
Victims might not realize that a given website is a scam, or they might think that at least some of the profiles must be real?
Just like an employee or contractor working on behalf of the Physic Friends Network, the job of someone working on behalf of a scam website is:
A scam dating website can be like the 1960's British television program The Prisoner.
While the goal of the village in The Prisoner was to draw information out of the character played by Patrick McGoohan, the goal of scammers creating fake profiles on fake dating websites is to drain cash from the users who are not part of the scam.
I would need to do rewatch to be sure, but my memory of the tv series The Prisoner is that the inhabitants of the village were presented as a mixture people working for the village and those who had been captured by the village's owner.
On a scam dating website, it is trivial for a scammer to construct a website to only show naive users fake profiles instead of a mixture of fake profiles and real profiles.