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Participating in the dating scene is already hard enough.
And still, businesses keep finding ways to make it even worse.
Now they are starting to talk about it on the internet.
Met this guy on a dating app.
And he immediately asked me out on a date to a specific restaurant.
He confirmed day off.
I get to the restaurant and see that hes nowhere to be found.
So, I reached out, no response.
I checked the app and noticed that he unmatched me.
And that just blew my mind.
On her account, the creator posts various videos usually relating to her life.
On TikTok, Taylor has 22K followers and over 5M likes.
She also said that she read a story about another woman falling victim to the same trick.
And we found out that there are even more victims of this trick out there.
The restaurants that take part in this scam are called food diggers.
It is a pun on the phrase gold digger.
These establishmentstend to partner with bot apps.
And these partnerships let them create bots on dating apps to lure people to their restaurants.
There people, just like Taylor, get stood up, and so, order food on their own.
Essentially, the restaurants are exploiting people who are looking for love and/or fun.
However, the food digger term can also be applied to other kinds of opportunists.
But todays topic is not about them.
It is about food-digging restaurants that lure people with catfishing tactics.
And the number of people who shared that they were victims of this scheme started to grow.
Just think about how many more people were scammed and either didnt realize it or didnt share online!
Being stood up on a date can damage a persons self-esteem, as it feels humiliating.
And when there are too many risks, the desire to use the app might notably decline.
