Is POF Responsible for Murder?
We’ve probably painted ourselves as having a pretty biased opinion about PlentyofFish.com and its founder Markus Frind, so let this post be proof to show that we are fair and will give any site its proper respect.
A Toronto Star article recently discussed the idea that a Canadian woman named Sonia Varaschin, who was found dead on September 5th of last year, might have met her murderer on POF earlier that year. The article claims that of the many dating sites Varaschin visited, she most frequently used PlentyofFish to meet men although she had an on-again-off-again boyfriend at the time, thus the reason they are questioning many of the men that she made contact with during her time on the site.
Seems to make sense, right? However, Markus Frind, who we are TRYING to see in a positive light in this story (especially after the recent Match.com lawsuit in which the woman wants to shut down the site entirely until a sex offender registry is compared with all members), because the last thing the online dating industry needs is to appear unsafe in an increasingly more anxious world. However, after scanning the article several times, we see no implication that PlentyofFish was in any way responsible for the murder of Sonia Varaschin. Based on Frind’s rebuttal though, you might get a different impression:
Curtis Rush from the Toronto Star just posted another bullshit theory suggesting that someone may have hacked her deleted POF account and than killed her. This is the same ridiculous theory the police came to us with after an “anonymous tip”. This reporter is just making shit up and printing it, even the slightest bit of investigative reporting have shown how BS both these stories are. Plentyoffish deletes all emails after 30 days even if you are an active user. We don’t collect phone numbers, paypal accounts and never have, we also don’t collect realnames or addresses unless its for paying users. For some reason Curtis Rush is trying to tie Plentyoffish’s Name to this murder in any way possible.
Very professional, right? Throwing in curse words and getting all uppity and sounding like a whiny little boy who didn’t get the toy he wanted for Christmas? Talk about a respectable, genuine response to a very sensitive matter, right?
Someday, Markus Frind will look back on his blog posts and be like “why the hell did I talk like a teenage girl on her period all the time?” But by then it will be too late, and his hubris will likely have shut down his entire empire. At least, that’s what we hope.
The title of this post was going to be “PlentyofFish Falsely Held Responsible for Crime,” but I think I’ll leave it as is.
What do you think? Is Frind fair in accusing the Toronto Star of attacking him?
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