Girl uses Tinder to make money and you'll wish you thought of it first
If nothing else, millennials know how to pull a good scam. Icons like Joanne the Scammer brought clever money making into the mainstream, and now the next generation is pulling off scams of their own design.
Progress, kind of?
Junior scammer Maggie Archer posted screenshots of her incredibly simple method of making money off Tinder to her Twitter.
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She set her bio to just "send me $5, see what happens," which is... suggestive, yeah.
It suggests something will happen that'd be worth $5, which is, admittedly, subjective. So anyone taking the bait here is setting themselves up for a scam, but whatever.
People take the bait, send money to her Paypal, and then she un-matches them. It's that simple.
Archer told Buzzfeed News that a "surprising amount of men take the bait," and she's received money from more than 20 men in less than a week.
Some quick math will tell you that's about $100 for doing literally nothing but hooking her matches on the mystery of it all with a one-sentence proposition promising nothing.
It goes back to what grandmothers have been saying for generations: leave things to the imagination. But, like, charge them for it, obviously.
Archer said she wanted to give the idea to more women to "share the wealth," and a lot of replies to her tweet seem to indicate the idea might catch on-- until men catch on, that is.
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One girl even tried it, and it worked!
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A spokesperson from Tinder has since reached out and stated, “Requesting money from other Tinder users violates our terms of service. As a result, these users have been removed from Tinder.”
So, uh, it was fun while it lasted? Sorry ladies. Take that cash and buy access to a more elite dating app maybe?
Updated to include statement from Tinder.
