College Student Earns Extra Cash by Asking Tinder Matches to Send Her $5

“Send me $5, see what happens.”

BuzzFeed is calling this a scam, Tinder claims it violates the Terms of Service, but I am loving everything about this plan:

This College Student Was Banned From Tinder For Scamming Money Off A Bunch Of Men

Maggie Archer, a college student at Missouri Western State University, has been earning extra cash by including a single line of text on her Tinder profile:

Send me $5, see what happens 😉

What actually happens is that she gives matches a PayPal address, accepts their $5, and then unmatches them—which means they are no longer able to view or communicate with her Tinder profile.

“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.”

I’m not sure it’s foolproof, because Missouri Western State University is not a super-large college—only 6,010 undergraduates, according to Google—and someone who was unsatisfied with his transaction might be able to find Archer IRL. (Assuming that person had a good enough memory to recall the details in her profile photo, which he would no longer be able to access after they became unmatched.)

But that’s less of an issue at this point, because—after tweeting about her scheme and going viral—Tinder decided Archer was violating the TOS.

Archer told BuzzFeed News that she received an email from Tinder saying that her account had been shut down. She said that she had, however, deleted the app a couple of days ago “because the whole purpose for doing this was defeated,” and that she hasn’t re-downloaded the app to check.

So. Scam, scheme, potentially dangerous hustle, or really good idea?

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