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Exhaustive Blog Post About PPL Scam By Elena Petrova That’s Worth Reading

Posted on April 20, 2018

Pseudo-datingELENA'S MODEL BLOG – Apr 19 – Elena Petrova, founder & CEO of ElenasModels.com calls on all PID sites (premium international dating sites) to stop PPL. "PPL sites face real prospects of being questioned by federal investigators in the near future and fined for millions for aiding fraud", she wrote in her blog post. "Let's call legitimate media representatives and computer experts. We are ready to open our books, databases, computer code to any legitimate media representatives or federal agency, regardless of whether PPL sites wish to do the same", she continued. "If you cannot make money without scamming your clients, then you should not be in this business."

PPL stands for "pay per letter", a system of communication on "dating" sites where users are charged for every message they send or receive through "credits". The largest PPL company claims 1.3M users and 500 agents that provide content (messages, chats), for which they are paid. Men usually pay $1k-3k for communication with impersonators or fake "brides" during the course of a "relationship". According to insiders, PPL industry turnover exceeds $200M annually, and 30k people are employed in Eastern Europe by agents of PPL companies.

The simplest way to detect PPL scams is to look at the communication abnormalities. PPL fraudsters spam men with mails, sending 400-500 mails and chats invitation daily. Genuine women usually send their first message to 3-4 men only, not hundreds. Most of them prefer that men contact them first. On PPL sites, it’s usually men that get swamped in mails and chats.

See full article at Elena's Models blog

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4 thoughts on “Exhaustive Blog Post About PPL Scam By Elena Petrova That’s Worth Reading”

  1. Tony's avatar Tony says:
    April 20, 2018 at 1:05 pm

    Im not sure what all the fuss is over really or what the point of this article actually is! PPL sites are pretty well finished today they are so prehistoric that very few people in the 21st century even use them!
    Maybe it was something to worry about 10 years ago.. but not now. PPL sites are history..
    A nice article from Elenas models , maybe before she takes the morel high ground she she should make sure she pays her affiliates ..)))

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  2. Tony's avatar Tony says:
    April 20, 2018 at 1:05 pm

    Im not sure what all the fuss is over really or what the point of this article actually is! PPL sites are pretty well finished today they are so prehistoric that very few people in the 21st century even use them!
    Maybe it was something to worry about 10 years ago.. but not now. PPL sites are history..
    A nice article from Elenas models , maybe before she takes the morel high ground she she should make sure she pays her affiliates ..)))

    Reply
  3. Jimmy's avatar Jimmy says:
    April 23, 2018 at 6:03 am

    Just because she doesn’t run the PPL model, doesn’t mean she’s not using fake messages to sell subscriptions and chat operators to keep them renewing.
    She limits the amount of conversations a user can have per membership level, which is highly convenient if you are not being paid per message but still have to pay chat operators.
    There’s not many sites where you get a 90% response rate without a profile picture!

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  4. Jimmy's avatar Jimmy says:
    April 23, 2018 at 6:03 am

    Just because she doesn’t run the PPL model, doesn’t mean she’s not using fake messages to sell subscriptions and chat operators to keep them renewing.
    She limits the amount of conversations a user can have per membership level, which is highly convenient if you are not being paid per message but still have to pay chat operators.
    There’s not many sites where you get a 90% response rate without a profile picture!

    Reply

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