‘I worked for a dating app – I had to send fake messages and catfish male customers’

A Reddit user has detailed a jaw-dropping insight into working with dating apps – after claiming their ex used to message male customers to keep their accounts from expiring

It’s safe to say that all of us have heard of hilarious dating stories within our time – especially those who are frequent users of common dating apps. But we rarely hear from those who have exclusive insight of working behind-the-scenes on these popular apps – until now.

In a post on Reddit, a user called out to users who have worked with a dating company, and to detail their strange experiences. They wrote: “Redditors that worked with a dating company (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, etc.), what’s the most insane user stat or behind-the-scenes fact you found out about?”

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While some people detailed how some men had no matches and another shared percentages of inactive users – one person took stories to a whole new level.

Reddit user visualisewhirledpeas claimed that their ex-partner used to send fake messages to users whose accounts were approaching expiration.

The employee allegedly had to “pretend to be a woman and message male customers.”

The job would involve ensuring the customer’s renewal by catfishing male customers and chatting from an attractive profile.

“My ex bf worked for the Yahoo Italy dating site back in the earlyish 2000s,” they said.

“His job was to pretend to be a woman, and message male customers just as their accounts were going to expire.

“This would encourage them to pay to renew their subscriptions.

“Once they renewed, he would ghost them,” they added.

“He only lasted for a few months due to how unethical it was.”

Sharing their utter shock in the thread of the post, people detailed their disbelief into the little-known insight.

“That’s legitimately one of the saddest things I’ve read on this thread,” one person said.

Another claimed: “Almost 100% certain this happens on every dating app.”

In the meantime, other Redditors shared their surprising stories in the comment section after working in the field of dating.

“A dude with over 2000 right swipes and no matches,” one person wrote.

A second penned: “I used to work with a guy who had been an engineer for Match.com. He said 99% of the profiles were inactive, and that 80% of the active profiles were men.”

“According to him, all told the site was mostly men reaching out to dead profiles and never getting responses.”

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