Woman hurt typing fake profiles of sexy women for dating site, $20M suit alleges

[jakeXT]

TORONTO - A dating website for married people who want to cheat on their spouses is being sued by a former employee who says she damaged her wrists typing up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women.

Doriana Silva is seeking $20 million from Ashley Madison for what she calls the company's "unjust enrichment" at her expense, plus another $1 million in punitive and general damages.

In her statement of claim, Silva — a Brazilian immigrant living in Toronto — says she was hired to help launch a Portuguese-language version of the site and promised a starting salary of $34,000 plus benefits.

She was soon asked to create 1,000 "fake female profiles" meant to lure men to the new Brazilian Ashley Madison site — and given only three weeks to complete the work, the document alleges.

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Woman+hurt+typing+fake+profiles+sexy+women+dating+site+suit/9149078/story.html

[In_The_Wind]

1. I hate the fake profiles.

There were a lot on dating sites.

[NuclearDem]

4. ...so I've been told.

[In_The_Wind]

5. It's first hand knowledge for me. Back about 10 years ago I did the date.com thing.

It was an adventure to say the very least.
Some of the geezers were posting 20 year old profile photos without a disclaimer.

[Blue_Tires]

6. +1

Did the internet dating thing for a long, long time; going all the way back to the AOL days

[In_The_Wind]

7. Actually ... since 2002

There are a lot of nice (but lonely) people in the world. It was fun/crazy/heartbreaking. Some interesting memories including a few that made me happy about my rule: meeting the first time in public for coffee only.

[jakeXT]

9. Some people like adventures

In some ways I blame Jeff. The warning indicators were flashing red-alert red from the moment I saw the oversize Mexican mariachi bow tie in his OkCupid profile picture three months ago. This guy was trouble of the best variety.

On the surface, we appeared to be sure candidates for “World’s Most Unlikely Pair.” He’s a wildly energetic university professor who is always on the move. I’m a reclusive writer who spends hours identifying new constellations in the ceiling paint. He can strike an insta-friendship with any human not in a coma. I often pretend I don’t recognize people at the grocery store. Somehow our personality differences are offset by the fact that the same mad scientist blood flows through both of our veins. We live for the unexpected, the experimental and the subtly disruptive.

Never one to waste time, Jeff set an experimental trap weeks before he knew my real last name or whether I actually looked like the pictures in my OkCupid account. His third email was coy: “Do you have any ideas for travel experiments? I have a few things I dabble in, and I’m going to push one of these experiments to the nth limit in June.”

“Dabbling” referred to his traditional method of travel, which involved booking an outbound flight to one international airport and an inbound flight out of some other port-of-calling a few countries away. Beyond visas and flight details his trips were completely unstructured. No hotels and no itineraries.

Oh yeah, and the newest nth limit twist: no stuff.

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/12/the_craziest_okcupid_date_ever/

[hobbit709]

2. What part of $34K/mo for typing fake profiles failed to tip her off?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. IKR.

avarice and greed.

[blogslut]

3. bemused smile

...and then silence.