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Honey Trap: Underage Live-Chat Hosts Getting Paid to Flirt — Live-chat platforms and third-party agencies are using underage hosts to entice audiences to spend money on voice and video calls. (www.sixthtone.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Pro@reddthat.com to c/Technology@programming.dev

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago

And then they can use the collected data to sell it to someone who wants to blackmail one of the users.
Seems like a reapplication of a tried and tested model.

Now just to make sure they attract enough users that are worth blackmailing.