To give you an idea of the frequency of the letters, around 60 letters arrived within the first nine days – about 6.5 letters per day.
The only real „out“ I can see from the evidence in the previous letters section of systemic lying by female supposed clients of asiandate does not reflect well on this site anyway: it is that the ladies on the site are genuine but that the profile of Michael Michaelson that was presented to them was not the profile I entered, but an enhanced and fluffed-up profile, with a customised image. A reader of this page once wrote to me to let me know that he had evidence that asiandate does sometimes edit men’s profiles without the consent or even knowledge of those men.
Whilst this might occur to some extent, I doubt that it occurs to the extent that would be necessary to excuse the otherwise disingenuous claims of the letters presented above: the reader who wrote to me did not allude to or provide evidence of anything that dramatic. Even if it did, though, would you be willing to pay money to a dating website which manipulates your profile without your consent or even knowledge?
Replicating the results
To check that this wasn’t some strange anomaly, on I created another fake account, „John Smith“, aged 88 (the maximum age it is possible to set for men on asiandate), with profile description („A Few Words About Yourself“) set to „I am an old and decrepit man with terminal cancer and absolutely no money. I will die within a month, the doctors say.“. As with „Michael“’s account, I provided no photographs. Within two days, the account received 15 letters, with similar results as for „Michael“ – many of the writers claimed to have read, and to be attracted to „John“ based on, his profile; many of them provided more than one photograph. „Non-consensual profile editing: the „out“ that’s still „in“?“ weiterlesen