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Undercover as a chat writer: Fake flirts on dating platforms (2020x23)

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Some chat portals apparently use fake profiles behind which paid employees hide: men, women, old, young. They are required to keep their unsuspecting counterpart in line: to spark flirtations and to continue conversations with open questions. Because every message costs the user on the other side money. How exactly does the fake flirt business work? STRG_F reporter Nadia Kailouli applied undercover as a chat writer and looked behind the scenes of two portals.