Japanese Online Dating

This is a link to a story about Japanese gangsters running a "dating service" and ripping off their customers - turns out the "women" on the site did not exist, and their emails to the paying customers were written by male and female employees of company.

The funny thing is that I know at least a half-dozen Japanese friends who have written fake dating emails as a part-time job. I doubt that it's just this one site that does not have real women writing the correspondance. I also find it depressing that all these deai-kei keitai sites are profitting off of single men who should know a lot better.