Mastodawn

Something very weird is happening on Tinder

Some Tinder users have started noticing a strange new kind of profile. Swipe through the photos and everything looks normal — until you hit the last one.

That's where things get weird. The final photo always shows a face that doesn't quite fit: sometimes silly, sometimes unsettling. I went down a rabbit hole of stolen identities and catfishing schemes to figure out what's really going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjxAYdUe8uU

#FaceCheck #Tinder #scammers

Something very weird is happening on Tinder

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propapanda

@stux

Any sort of verification can be used to trick people into trusting the thing too much.

In the end it's just a means to enabling scams and abuse and the platforms profit from it through micropayments and attention/time spent.

There used to be a scam on X where scammers verified accounts for well-known public figures and posted something like: "send BTC to this address and i will give back to you 2x".