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Speaker 1: Just love this time of year in Southern California. Tonight

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Speaker 1: there's our jingle Ball present of a Capital One and

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Speaker 1: those upfront tickets are on the way. We're kind of like,

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Speaker 1: that's on our mind. You don't you have that day

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Speaker 1: where you've got like your your job, your work, and

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Speaker 1: then your presentation or it's like yeah, when you've got

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Speaker 1: class all day and then you've got the school play

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Speaker 1: at night.

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Speaker 2: It's that day for us totally. It's a great way

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Speaker 2: of putting it.

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Speaker 3: We've been prepping for it for weeks, months and weeks.

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Speaker 2: And our presentation, it's.

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Speaker 1: Our presentation, it's our it's our show tonight, it's our

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Speaker 1: big so recital. Okay, so get into the jingle Ball tickets.

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Speaker 1: I get some Harry Styles on the way. We've got

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Speaker 1: a mindful minute this hour if you want to take

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Speaker 1: a deep breath in your car with us. But right now,

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Speaker 1: it's a scam. It may involve your favorite dating app,

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Speaker 1: maybe your favorite restaurant, syste uncover it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it is cuffing season, so I feel

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Speaker 3: like a lot of single people are trying to get

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Speaker 3: out there go on dates, and you're maybe using the

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Speaker 3: dating apps more than usual. And one woman on tiicket Talk,

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Speaker 3: women in general on TikTok have this wild theory about

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Speaker 3: how restaurants may be utilizing dating apps to scam customers.

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Speaker 3: And it's a conspiracy theory. I think maybe of the century.

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Speaker 2: When I love a conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 3: This it really kind of took me through a wild

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Speaker 3: ride because if this is true, then I feel like

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Speaker 3: we've really just lost humanity because it's kind of wild.

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Speaker 3: So it all started after a TikToker was ghosted, and

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Speaker 3: I feel like many people have been ghosted on dates.

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Speaker 2: Okay, no big deal, but just.

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Speaker 1: So I'm clear, Yes, ghosted meaning you show up and

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Speaker 1: no one meets you.

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Speaker 2: Sure, yes, the.

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Speaker 3: Different definitions in this case, yes someone In this case,

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Speaker 3: she was completely She showed up on the date and

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Speaker 3: he did not show up.

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Speaker 2: A physical ghosts ghosted. So she showed up at the restaurant.

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Speaker 2: He stood her up. I guess I should say.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so when she checked the app, he not only

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Speaker 3: stood her up, he completely unmatched her. So that was weird,

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Speaker 3: like why would he do that? So she's very frustrated.

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Speaker 3: She got all dressed up for this date and now

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Speaker 3: she was already at this very specific restaurant that he

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Speaker 3: told her to go to, So it was a very

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Speaker 3: specific restaurant, and so she was like, that's a whatever,

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Speaker 3: but okay, fine, I'll meet you at this restaurant. Once

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Speaker 3: she was there, she was like, well, I'm hungry, I

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Speaker 3: might as well just eat. So she got a meal

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Speaker 3: and she ate, and then she went on TikTok to

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Speaker 3: share her story, only to find out there was another

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Speaker 3: person that shared the exact same story about that same restaurant.

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Speaker 3: So it turns out these restaurants were buying bots and

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Speaker 3: the bots were.

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Speaker 2: Acting like a human.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were coming in there buying meals for

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Speaker 1: one none the humans.

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Speaker 3: The humans were like, are acting like they were going

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Speaker 3: to date these women. The bots were going and saying Tanya,

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Speaker 3: matching with Tanya and saying, hey, meet me at the

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Speaker 3: restaurant and then they and there was no person.

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Speaker 2: It's just.

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Speaker 1: So that they'll spend money on food exactly. Yes, So

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Speaker 1: that's what it is. So it so the restaurant could

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Speaker 1: be in on it.

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Speaker 3: So the theory is that the restaurants are posing as

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Speaker 3: people on these dating apps, so that you go to

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Speaker 3: the business assuming that they're gonna eventually they're gonna buy

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Speaker 3: something because they're sad that they got stood up, and

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Speaker 3: they're like, well, I'll get a drink at least, or

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Speaker 3: a metal or something.

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Speaker 2: Would work for me. That is so dark, isn't it

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Speaker 2: so messed up? But the world can be dark. I

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Speaker 2: don't think that would work for me. I think if

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Speaker 2: I were there and I as well, oh yeah, if.

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Speaker 1: I were there and I was stood up, I would

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Speaker 1: be too embarrassed to me saying food and stay, I'd

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Speaker 1: go somewhere else, as if I was going to be alone.

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Speaker 3: I think on average it works enough to where they

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Speaker 3: get business.

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Speaker 1: Because I had been on dates where I've sat at

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Speaker 1: the table and there wasn't a bot. There was a person,

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Speaker 1: but I'm like, and she's on She's just stuck in

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Speaker 1: so stuck in traffic, she's on the way.

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Speaker 3: Apparently, it turns out it's called venue promotion scams. And

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Speaker 3: this has been going on for years, even before the pandemic,

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Speaker 3: and it started in other countries like India and stuff

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Speaker 3: like that. And I dugged so deep into this because

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Speaker 3: I was like down. I was like, oh my.

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Speaker 2: Gosh, this is put in the back of your mind

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Speaker 2: if you're dating.

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Speaker 3: It's so wild but yeah, other countries have been doing

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Speaker 3: this for years, and it's now pouring into the US

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Speaker 3: and this is becoming a thing.

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Speaker 2: So I wouldn't be printed it out.

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Speaker 4: Though. If I matched with someone and they had a

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Speaker 4: very specific restaurant for me to go to, I'd be like,

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Speaker 4: how about we.

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Speaker 1: Go like that?

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Speaker 2: Does know that I always have specific ideas for where

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Speaker 2: to go.

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Speaker 4: I like a collaboration.

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Speaker 2: That's true, right, I was always a collab gal.

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Speaker 1: But what if I asked you, you know, location, neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: and kind of food you like, and say, Okay, there's

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Speaker 1: this great place you ever been No, never been great,

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Speaker 1: let's check it out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's different because you're like asking about like where

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Speaker 4: I live a part of the town.

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Speaker 3: You don't know how the I need to know how

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Speaker 3: this bought conversation goes, because maybe it does go like

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Speaker 3: that tongue and then all of a.

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Speaker 4: Sudden it could be yes, smart, oh, like they know

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Speaker 4: because they have the location that she looks close and

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Speaker 4: it starts going like that and you think you're actually

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Speaker 4: having this very like intellectual conversation with him about this restaurant.

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Speaker 3: You're like, Okay, that sounds nice.

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Speaker 2: I'll meet either. So sketched,