IKM writer

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As IKM-Schreiber (IKM stands for Internet Contact Market) is someone called who in dating services in the Internet takes on the role of virtual identities. His range of activities can range from creating invented profiles to acting for a variety of bogus identities. The purpose of his activity is to arouse or maintain the interest of curious participants and existing customers, depending on the portal, to generate chargeable mail traffic or to motivate them to use or extend premium services, but often also to submit unfair or fraudulent offers.

Alternatively, the terms “dialogue writer”, “contact person” or “controller” can be found in relevant job advertisements, whose activities are often similar.

Activities in dating sites

IKM writers are commissioned by dubious single sites to acquire new members. For this purpose, IKM writers register with a fake profile at a reputable single exchange, write members there as decoy, express interest in the person in the bait messages, but write that they are active in other single exchanges. The person's profile can also be found in the dating site. But in order to be able to send a message to them, a paid premium membership is required. For each recruited member, an IKM writer receives approx. 0.80 EUR. If this can persuade the member to take out a paid premium membership, there is an additional bonus. In dating sites with a freemium model in particular, IKM writers, but also controllers, are used to increase the activity of members, because writing and answering messages as well as chatting must be paid for with coins.

criticism

An IKM writer is a paid fake who usually posts various profiles that are as erotic as possible and asks men to use a call center for sex or agency services that are subject to a charge or to register with sites that are subject to a charge. The IKM writer earns per minute the customer calls the call center (around EUR 0.30 per minute). It is a commercial activity under the pretense of private contact and is criminally questionable.

See also

  • Catfish , a person who pretends to be someone else on the internet; digital impostor on social networks
  • Romance Scam , a form of advance fraud in which the victim is to be persuaded to pay the alleged lover using psychological pressure

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Avoiding fraud in dating agencies: Part 2 - You catch hearts with sex ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.partnervermittlung-ratgeber.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dating advisor.
  2. ↑ The love trap: How lonely hearts are ripped off on the Internet ( Memento from July 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ARD , July 21, 2014
  3. ↑ IKM-Schreiber on behalf of dubious single sites. IKM-Schreiber: The decoy in dubious single sites.
  4. ↑ Anne-Sophie Hessler: Online dating sites: The virtual love trap , Spiegel Online , November 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ Petja Schrödter: Do IKM (Internet contact market) writers make themselves punishable under criminal law? , Juraserv.de , November 12, 2013.