Oh, Looks Like You've Been Using Tinder Wrong This Whole Time

"Joanne'd the shit out of them. Genius."
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Kassy Cho
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Like many people, Maggie Archer, a 20-year-old from St. Louis, Missouri, is on Tinder. Except she's found possibly the best use for it — scamming money off men by indirectly asking them to "send her $5 and see what happens."

When the match asks her what the $5 will get them, she then tells them to "send it and find out" and provides them with her email associated with her PayPal account.

"It's really a foolproof plan, because I'm not actually promising anything, I just say 'see what happens,'" Archer told BuzzFeed News, adding that "a surprising amount of men take the bait."

Twitter: @maggiearch3r
Archer said her friend actually suggested the idea of including the line in her Tinder profile to her, and she decided to try it mostly as a joke but stuck with it when it started working almost immediately.
Archer actually provided BuzzFeed News with screenshots of her recent Paypal activity as proof of how well it's been working.

Archer said that out of the guys who do ask her about her bio, around 1 in 5 actually send her money, and that she has received money from more than 20 matches in less than a week.

Maggie Archer
She said the most she has gotten from one match was $10.
"Some men get creepy and assume if they offer a lot more, like hundreds, something will actually happen, which of course it doesn't," she said.

"I figured it was too funny not to share," Archer said. "Also, I wanted to give more women this idea to share the wealth."

People are comparing Archer to a particularly iconic scammer.

Archer said she didn't expect her tweet to get this much attention but has received mostly positive reactions from women.

"Some people are definitely upset about what I'm doing," she said. "Mostly men."
Kassy Cho is a reporter with BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
Contact Kassy Cho at kassy.cho@buzzfeed.com.
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