'Honeytrap' catches online cheaters

Couple in bed man cheating on mobile sms
Couple in bed man cheating on mobile sms



Love rats beware: a woman has revealed how she works as a 'honeytrap' online to catch out cheating partners.

Amy Wade, 28, charges £20 a week to send messages on social media to test whether men are being faithful - and says she's caught out more than 100 so far.

"I love being a honey and exposing love cheats - some of the rats I talk to are so vulgar and disgusting, it's really shocking," she tells the Daily Mail.

"I never feel bad about breaking up relationships: clients contact me and they're usually right to be concerned. If you don't trust your man then it's my job to put your mind at ease."

Pharmacist Amy works for Cheatingrat.com in her spare time, and uses her real social media profile - with precautions, such as turning off location settings.

"We have to make the situation seem as realistic as possible, I usually tell them I've just moved to their area so I've been adding random people to try and get to know some new faces," she says.

"Some men make it clear from the beginning that they are taken, which is refreshing, but most jump at the opportunity to slime over a new girl in town who doesn't know anyone."
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As Cheatingrat.com points out, social media is a good place to start when it comes to investigating infidelity. Three years ago, a survey from Divorce-Online UK found that an astonishing one in three divorces resulted from rows over social media.

And as far back as 2010, a survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) found that four out of five lawyers used evidence gleaned from social networking sites in divorce cases, with Facebook the most useful.

Sometimes people give themselves away very readily. Just last month, a cheating wife on a business trip was busted after sending her husband a saucy photo on Snapchat - with a pair of men's boots in the background.

And a week or two earlier, a man's infidelity went viral after the girl he'd met in a Manchester club posted a picture of the two of them kissing, and appealed to see him again. She was quickly put in touch with his girlfriend - whose reaction isn't known.

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