[greenhexagon]

For the completely unethical, perhaps.

Delivering food is a legitimate, respectable and productive job. Fraudulently deceiving lonely men to coerce them into paying for more fraudulent interactions, less so.

I wonder how long before an article is published about someone committing suicide when they find out they were talking to a man in the Philippines rather than the woman they thought they were talking to.

[unforeseen9991]

People manipulating and pretending to be someone they are not has been going on since the internet has been a thing and provided the ability to be anon. "Nobody knows you are a dog on the internet" is like 1996.

[arp242]

And theft murder has been a thing for as long as there have been people, as have all sorts of bad things. So what? We can just do anything?

[foobarian]

They could be doing the society a service in a roundabout Darwinian fashion.

[altruios]

I have rarely seen such heartless victim blaming on hackernews...