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Unfortunately for Walker, the picture had obviously been faked. The picture stated that he requested money from me and he’d need me to verify it using a Google Play card. Walker sent me a picture that the payment would be pending and he would need me to send him an amount first to get it verified. What then happened was, put simply, predictable. He asked me for my sharable PayPal payment link and I sent it to him. I told him then, “Okay, let's do it!” At this point, I was really curious what would happen. (However, he quickly unsent these messages after sending them - this part of the story remains somewhat of a mystery to me.) He sent me some pictures of girls holding up papers that had “Walker paid me 1,500 Euro” or “Walker is a real sugar daddy” written on them. To this, I asked how I could be sure that he wasn’t trying to scam me. I first asked “Walker” what he would like me to do in return, after which he told me that he was simply looking for someone to talk to since his wife had passed away. I would like to pay you 1,500 Euro weekly.” Although this came across as an obvious scam attempt, I got curious. The direct message read, “Hey my name is Walker and I am looking for a sugar baby. I saw an older man pictured in the channel’s photo.

Recently, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and received a notification about a new direct message request. I’m a young woman in my 20s and am an active Instagram user. Therefore, these relationships are absolutely legal in the UK.Here's a reminder that scams can happen anywhere - even on your favorite social media platform “People come looking for honest and open relationships, and bad actors looking to abuse our community are not allowed. “The relationships found on Seeking Arrangement are not transactional in any way, and prostitution and escorting are not allowed on our site, although that is a common misconception,” said the representative. While many may conflate ‘sugar dating’ with prostitution, the representative stressed this is not the case. READ MORE: First cousins petition to legalise marriage “A lot of them do genuinely like dating older men, and while in uni are often offered mentorship and unique life experiences by doing so.” “Sugar Babies set their own boundaries, facilitate their own dates, and make their own decisions,” a representative for Seeking Arrangement told Yahoo UK. READ MORE: Is this the worst Tinder profile ever? How does the sugar baby/daddy relationship work?Ī ‘sugar daddy’ – usually male – is someone who enters into a romantic relationship with a ‘sugar baby’ – usually younger and female – where companionship and often sex is exchanged for financial security, including cash, gifts and holidays. The subscribed students employed in such an arrangement are said to receive, on average, a monthly ‘allowance’ of £2,910 from their sugar daddies.īeing a super baby might not appeal to many, but such a sum is enough to pay off the average university tuition fees in mere months. This could, perhaps, explains the recent rise in subscriptions.īut the financial incentives are likely more appealing – particularly at a time when university tuition fees are through the roof.

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Seeking Arrangement offers free premium membership to students who sign up with their university email, a company representative confirmed to Yahoo UK. Story continues Why the increase in students signing up? I would advise and student to speak to their university about available funding and support before considering signing up to something they may not feel comfortable with.” “We don’t offer support directly but are constantly campaigning for the government to increase the student maintenance loan so that students aren’t left short at the end of each month. “Whilst some see this as a legitimate line of work, as an organisation our worry is that students are being forced into seeking ways of making money that they perhaps wouldn’t have if they were financially comfortable,” says Butler. Save The Students is actively taking steps to prevent students becoming involved with sugar dating. Within this many have told us that they are involved in sugar dating,” he tells Yahoo UK. “Every year we run a national student money survey and around 4% of students admit to being involved in adult work as a way to make money and fund university. He predicts with many other students simply signing up out of intrigue. Jake Butler, operations director at student finance advisory site Save The Student suggests the number of students actively sugar dating is closer to 75,000. It’s unclear how many of those registered actually seek to match up with a sugar daddy. Students from plenty of other red-brick institutions, including the University of Leeds, Cardiff University and Oxford University have signed up.

Sugar Daddy website Seeking Arrangement has published a list of sign-up growth by university.