Ashley Madison a bigger scam than people realized. Only 0.075% of female users verifiably real.
It's not news that Ashley Madison was an overwhelmingly male site, or that AM placed fake female profiles on the site, but new numbers released in a Gizmodo article yesterday (http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944) shows how much of an outright scam the site may have been. The media last week revealed that most of the women were fake, and it was widely reported that only 5.5 million of the sites 31 million users were women, but this new analysis reveals that the real numbers may have only been a tiny fraction of that. A VERY tiny fraction.
The new analysis shows:
Vast numbers of the "real" female accounts were actually generated from AM IP addresses or had AM email addresses. Vast numbers of "real" accounts have birthdates and other data that falls outside the range of statistical probability (suggesting that it was randomly generated by a bot).
But most importantly, for a site designed to "connect" people, there were remarkably few "connections" with actual women. Only 2409 women had ever engaged in chat on the site. Only 1,492 women had ever accessed the Check Messages screen. Only 9,700 women had ever clicked the button to respond to messages sent to them. Most tellingly, only 12,108 women had ever gone through the paid account shutdown process.
That means, of the purported "5.5 million" women who were using the site, only 26,209 had ever actually used any of the sites primary features. Only 26,209 were actually active users, and even THAT number presumes that there's no overlap between the people using the various features.
All of this simply confirms what many people have suspected all along. Ashley Madison was a very elaborate, very deliberate scam designed to extract money from stupid men. The numbers show that the average male user spent hundreds of dollars on the site before terminating the account, and that virtually none of them ever actually got laid as a result.
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ROFL indeed.
