How Ashley Madison Hid Its Fembot Con From Users and Investigators
http://gizmodo.com/how-ashley-madison-hid-its-fembot-con-from-users-and-in-1728410265
To the Ashley Madison "guest," or non-paying member, it
would appear that he was being personally contacted by eager
women. But if he wanted to read or respond to them, he would
have to shell out for a package of Ashley Madison credits, which
range in price from $60 to $290. Each subsequent message and
chat cost the man credits. As documents from company e-mails now
reveal, 80 percent of first purchases on Ashley Madison were a
result of a man trying to contact a bot, or reading a message
from one. The overwhelming majority of men on Ashley Madison
were paying to chat with Angels like Sensuous Kitten, whose
minds were made of software and whose promises were nothing more
than hastily written outputs from algorithms. But the men were
not fooled. At least, not all of them. An analysis of company
e-mails, coupled with evidence from Ashley Madison source code,
reveals that company executives were in a constant battle to
hide the truth. In emails to disgruntled members of the site,
and even the California attorney general, they shaded the truth
about how the bots fit into their business plan.
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