MyYearbook - Meetme - Skout - POF - make millions off broken down individuals

[Anonymous]

myYearbook and Quepasa was renamed Meetme, The Meet Group inc in which owns Skout - Growlr - Hi5 - Lovoo - Tagged - Meetme (etc..)     where as  Match Group inc owns Plenty Of Fish, Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, Ship (etc...) 

Above are the two huge Goliaths who own a lot of dating apps.

Why dating apps are Not as Safe as they Appear to Be

So what happens to online dating? 

When people are broken inside they tend to join a dating app mostly where other broken people are to. A lot of these broken down people tend to drink do drugs or gamble and usually get attached to narcissists, abusers, child offenders, rapists, criminals, fraudsters, Gay bashing, murders, racism, trolls, bullies, stalkers, abusive people, and manipulators etc... Can you really trusts anyone on these apps NEVER.

The dating apps have piggybacked off the form of gambling websites  by selling package plans which are like tokens/credits that are earthier converted into virtual gifts or cash or points etc... Meet Group & Match Group are banking millions of dollars off of broken down individuals who tend to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars earthier to message someone or have special privileges or have there nick name highlighted or be noticed and ranked or put on trending or be sponsored by the app for live streaming etc....  

They even have paid advertising in Adsense in the app sponsored by Google. 

They also have it where you can receive FREE tokens/credits but you must download earthier a Bingo or Slot machine app, this is awful it can easily get people addicted to gambling. 

This social network app myYearbook now known as Meetme says it screens for criminals BUT one member got VIP status and supposedly he got paid 50,000$ dollars in cash and the bonus, Meetme "the meet group" sponsored an event with this man who had just gotten out of jail as a sex offender.

credit goes to: Reed Albergotti
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/12/social-networking-app-meetme-says-it-screens-sexual-offenders-gave-one-vip-status/

Deonte Fisher, a 26-year-old from the suburbs of Chicago, rose quickly this year to become a VIP streamer on MeetMe, an app that combines dating with live-streaming. Fisher amassed around $50,000 worth of virtual “diamonds,” according to a screen image, which are tokens that streamers can earn from virtual gifts sent by users. By this month, he was the app’s 58th most popular streamer, with around 16,000 fans, and posted photos of himself attending company-sponsored events.



But Fisher’s success on MeetMe, where he was known as “Yogi Bear,” came within weeks of his release from prison in February after being convicted of a sex offense involving a minor — a felony that should have prevented him from being on the app, according to MeetMe’s website. Fisher appears in the Illinois sex offender database, where it says he molested a 15-year-old when he was 20.

   

picture above credit goes to: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/

               

People don't be ashamed it's never to late to get yourself therapy,  remember the real World is where to meet real people and it's FREE and much more safer!!!

            

[Anonymous]

MyYearbook pedophilies

credit goes to: https://realcrime.net/2011/12/11/myyearbook-busts-pedo-on-their-site/

Seaford man arrested on child porn charges:

I give MyYearbook a lot of crap for being the new home to online predators and pedophiles since the fall of MySpace. However, it seems they are doing something about it.

Recently MyYearbook contacted the Delaware Child Predator Task Force to inform them that they believe a man was impersonating a teen on their site in order to get explicit images of underage girls.

Investigators in Delaware arrested 45-year-old Steven Cox of Seaford, Delaware. Cox allegedly admitted to posing as a 14 or 15-year-old boy and to exposing himself online to underage females.

While MyYearbook may be doing something to combat the predators on their site I still wouldn’t let a child or teen use their site. Like I said, it seems that MyYearbook and Craigslist have become the new online homes to the creepers.

   

[Anonymous]

Lawsuit filed against MeetMe claims dating app is responsible for local attorney's murder

credit goes to: https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-filed-against-meetme-claims-the-dating-app-is-responsible-for-local-attorneys-murder

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A lawsuit filed last month against a popular dating app claims a 26-year-old Bakersfield attorney was murdered by a man he met through the app.
According to court documents, Marcos Vargas was found lying nude and covered in blood outside of the Golden Valley Luxury Apartment complex on November 29, 2017. About four months later, investigators were able to make a connection in the homicide of Vargas that led them to 19-year-old Nicholas Charley Quintana. Investigators said they had previously requested data from the MeetMe App, which revealed that Vargas had messaged "21 subjects the nights leading up to his homicide."

The plaintiff in the lawsuit against MeetMeApp is Vargas' mother, Blanca Vargas, who filed the complaint for damages such as negligence, personal injury to descendant, wrongful death, survivor action, false advertising and fraud. Vargas claimed that Quintana used the MeetMe App, to "carry out hate crimes along with other illegal activities" and the app "failed to screen and perform sufficient background checks investigating criminal history of users like Quintana.
The lawsuit said that Vargas is seeking damages that would be determined in court along with past and future medical expenses and funeral costs.
The Washington Post reported that the app company has been the subject of lawsuits for allegedly enabling sexual predators to target minors.
According to court records, Quintana faces felony charges including first-degree murder. His trial date is scheduled for January 6.

   

[Anonymous]

Man with no neck charged with rape of 15-year-old girl from MyYearbook

credit goes to: https://realcrime.net/2011/07/16/man-with-no-neck-charged-with-rape-of-15-year-old-girl-from-myyearbook/

The human bowl cut over there (or Fat Spock, I couldn’t decide) is 19-year-old Thomas Hutchinson of Tewksbury, Mass. He’s been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl that he met through MyYearbook. This wasn’t your normal online hook-up though. Hutchinson allegedly not only posed as a girl on the site but also used an elaborate form of the modeling scam.

Investigators say that Hutchinson posed as a girl named Brittney and told his victim that ‘she’ could get her a job in modeling. This, of course, followed requests for pictures of the victim first in a bathing suit that the requests got more explicit. That’s when ‘Brittney’ said that if the victim didn’t have sex with her friend ‘Tommy’ that she would post the explicit pictures on the internet and if she didn’t she would be raped. She was raped anyway as Hutchinson allegedly drove to her house and forced her into his car where he raped her.

After Hutchinson was arrested and police investigated his home and computer they found even more child porn and they believe he may have had more victims…

If you think you may have been a victim of the defendant, or know someone who may have been victimized by the defendant, you are asked to call the Medford Police Department Computer Crimes Unit at 781-396-0893.

Hutchinson used the e-mail addresses of [email protected] and [email protected] to allegedly commit the scam and rape.

   

[Anonymous]

PA man caught cranking it to juveniles on MyYearbook

credit goes to: https://realcrime.net/2012/04/22/pa-man-caught-cranking-it-to-juveniles-on-myyearbook/

Police in Pennsylvania arrested 28-year-old Edward Joseph Hockenbury of Warminster after police received a notice from the NCMEC that he was allegedly exposing himself and masturbating on webcam to underage girls that he met on MyYearbook.

Edward Hockenbury

   

[Anonymous]

Skout, a dating app, reignites online fears after men accused of child rape

credit goes to: https://www.thestar.com/business/2012/06/13/skout_a_dating_app_reignites_online_fears_after_men_accused_of_child_rape.html

A social networking app has suspended access to its 17-and-under community after three alleged rapes involving children occurred from its use.

Skout, a location based dating service, announced the decision on Tuesday following news three men posing as teenagers were accused of raping minors.

“I’m disgusted by what’s happened here,” said Christian Wiklund, Skout’s founder, reported the New York Times. “One case is too many. When you have three, it looks like a pattern. This is my worst fear.”

Despite bolstering security for their teenage users, a large portion of its members in over 100 countries, the app was unable to weed out online predators.

“Keeping young users safe isn’t a problem unique to Skout. Last week, Facebook announced it is developing a modified site for children with parental controls after research showed a huge number of kids are lying to get on it — 7.5 million in the United States alone by one estimate.

Lydia Chan, a Skout spokesperson, would not say how many teenagers are using Skout. A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life project found six per cent of American teens use location-based services on their cellphones. For those with smartphones, the number is 18 per cent.

[Anonymous]

Man Accused Of Raping 14-Year-Old He Met On Dating App Skout

credit goes to: https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/michael-kaufman-alleged-raped-14-year-old-girl-he-met-through-skout

A Pennsylvania man has been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl he allegedly met through the dating app “Skout.”

Michael Kaufman, 28, is facing a slew of charges including rape after authorities said he met a girl through the dating app who had posed as an older woman, according to local station KYW-TV reports.

Kaufman allegedly met the teen through the app on Monday and agreed to meet her in a Roxborough park later that same day.

   

[Anonymous]

St. Petersburg Man Arrested in Undercover Skout App Pedophilia Sex Sting

credit goes to: https://www.muscalaw.com/blog/st-petersburg-man-arrested-in-undercover-skout-app-pedophilia-sex-sting

St. Petersburg, FL (March 1, 2020) – According to an online news article posted on WFLA, law enforcement in St. Petersburg arrested and charged a St. Petersburg man in a child sex sting operation. According to the news report, law enforcement set up an underage child sex sting operation on an app called Skout. Police created a fictitious profile of a “14-year-old child,” and an undercover law enforcement agent used the app to pose as a minor child.

[Anonymous]

SKOUT: Breeding Ground for Online Criminals

credit goes to: SkoutCreepers
https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/14iaai/skout_breeding_ground_for_online_criminals/

 I felt compelled to contribute to this thread after being invited to join SKOUT (hence the sn) and chatting with the sketchiest people on there. Here are two of the stories:

This week I had a relatively attractive 26 year old guy who started chatting with me on SKOUT. He seemed like a nice boy next door type and I didn't feel threaten by the way he was presenting himself. He claimed he didn't drink which I thought was a rarity for guys and he didn't ask me to send him more photos. The fun part came when he let slip his full name. As I continued chatting with him I googled him up, and I found his police records dating as far back as 2006. During the course of discovering these new information on him, he started asking where I lived, how much money I made, and if I had any roommates

[Anonymous]

Woman who was raped on Plenty of Fish first date is relieved attacker was deported

credit goes to: Bonnie Allen Apr 08, 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sexual-assault-deportation-1.5977578

A Regina woman who was sexually assaulted on a first date five years ago feels like she can finally heal in peace, she said, after learning that the man who drove her outside the city and raped her has been deported from Canada.

She isn't disappointed that Gioulian Nikdima, 51, only served roughly one-third of his three-year prison sentence for sexual assault causing bodily harm before being deported.