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bart_calendar May 23 2015, 11:45:17 UTC
What people should know is not to feel safe just because you think you are not on Adult Friend Finder.

I work for a bunch of AFF affiliates and it's really, really easy for you to be on Adult Friend Finder and not know it.

Here's how the system works, depending on the particular affiliate plan the affiliate gets anywhere from $10 to $25 per male sign up and $50 to $250 for every female sign up. Then they are given tools to create a "customized site scheme."

What this means is that you can say, register the domain "HotFiremenDating.com" synch it with AFF and after clicking through a couple drop downs create a dating site that only sends female members matches to firemen and slap a logo saying "The site with the most single firemen on the Internet" or whatever. The people who sign up for your site are actually signing up for AFF, but nothing ever tells them that. (This is intentional. They want it to look like a niche dating site, because that pulls more people in.)

So, pretty much if you've joined any niche dating site recently check the TOS of that site (which will identify it as an AFF site, because it has to by law) to see if your account may be at risk.

And, I say this for any niche. While a lot of the AFF affiliate sites are branded as clearly sex sites, some creative affiliates have created really benign sounding AFF affiliate sites.

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gonzo21 May 23 2015, 12:13:56 UTC
I can't even imagine how many people will be waking up to find blackmail emails from Nigerian Princes in their inboxes over the next few weeks.

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bart_calendar May 23 2015, 12:16:51 UTC
Ha!

Yeah, some of the AFF affiliate sites I've done would be obvious blackmail bait.

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gonzo21 May 23 2015, 12:34:51 UTC
I'd imagine it would be pretty easy to cross reference the database with Facebook and figure out which people on the dating website are either married or identified as straight.

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bart_calendar May 23 2015, 12:38:33 UTC
Yep.

Or are single but into really weird stuff.

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