Comments on: JLove — a classic example of online dishonesty

By: New frontiers in on-line defamation | carlos-m.net

New frontiers in on-line defamation | carlos-m.net — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:19:11 +0000

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By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:59:52 +0000

Th names are off. I talked to Yoav early this week and told him this was illegal. I mentioned that not only was my name on it , but the names of all the members in my family and extended family. Like Curt, as far as I know, I am the only one person who has my name.

When I talked to him on the phone, he told me to send him a letter that he could send to the people “responsible”. I also received the above form letter you received word for word.

I did send a letter, saying if my name was not removed legal action would be taken.

Yoav emailed me to tell me all names have been removed. He apologized and seemed genuine. I suspect the people responsible were the ones we got that automated letter from.

My name is my own again. You too have your names back.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:35:24 +0000

Like Nick [July 7th, 2008 9:01 am] I also manually approve members to my website, which does ensure that most members are who they say they are. Getting 100% of members “real” is nigh on impossible as the scammers are always looking for new ways to deceive.

As a tip, if any one who is member of a dating site does comes into contact with a scammer they should report them to the website they belong to asap.

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:18:52 +0000

Cohen telephoned me yesterday, saying that he hadn’t been involved in JLove for quite a while, but suggesting that he’d influenced the new management to take down the offending web pages even so.

I suggested he leave a comment here or send me an email that I could post for him. He said he’d do the latter, but it was the sort of conversation in which he wouldn’t really be a promise-breaker if he decided not to follow up on that.

CAM

By: Karyn M

Karyn M — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:02:05 +0000

I, too, have been a victim of this outrageous scam, and I have called this Yoav Cohen directly and left a message stating that I wanted any link between their site and my name taken down TODAY. This is completely unacceptable.

I wonder if this will work, though.

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:15:38 +0000

I’m looking through Google’s cache, and I think I got one thing wrong. That is, I now think JLove DID harvest real names directly. I previously thought that JLove had a list of first names and a list of last names and just matched them up, so that each last name had the same list of alleged-member first names. But poking through Google’s cache, I now think my previous impression in that regard was wrong.

CAM

By: Has JLove taken the dishonest pages down? | Text Technologies

Has JLove taken the dishonest pages down? | Text Technologies — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:57:42 +0000

[...] June 19, I wrote of a very dishonest gambit by a dating service called JLove. Specifically, JLove generated pages for many (First_Name, Last_Name) combos, falsely claiming that [...]

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:29:24 +0000

Tim,

Yes and no. Google isn’t going to penalize a site if it uses “white hat” search engine optimization techniques to promote falsehoods. However, there’s a great chance that an outfit this aggressive has done some things Google would disapprove of. Calling those to Google’s attention might be harmful to JLove’s rankings.

That said, the problem isn’t really how high JLove ranks, within reason. It’s that they put a false claim somewhere in the search engine results.

CAM

By: hornlo

hornlo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:24:43 +0000

“Why would ClaimID be more useful than just setting up a Facebook page?”

Oh, I must have mis-interpreted the original quote — thinking you meant there should be something like a known service for it, not just simply putting one up at random somewhere yourself. Sorry.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:23:50 +0000

Same problem here…would it be an idea to also contact Google and request that JLove loses all of its ‘ranking power’, or whatever it is called? At least then it would not come up as the first site when our names are googled.