Are There Fake Members Over at Match.com?

If it’s anything like I’ve seen on Yahoo, it’s probably inundated with fake profiles, but they’re put up by foreign scam artists running Nigeria scams. It’s not necessarily endorsed by Match or Yahoo, but they do make money from the scammers’ subscription fees, so there’s not much incentive to crack down. He’ll have a tough time proving that Match is the one behind the fake profiles.

I’ve no doubt there are fake profiles on Match.com and other paid sites. They may not be all have active subscriptions but there is no way to think that paid sites don’t suffer from scammers like the Nigeria ones David mentioned. I’ve already run into tons of fake profiles, might make it a little easier to spot the fake ones.

I agree with the above comments also would like to add another litter scam match and i am pretty sure others do, when your subscription is about to end or has ended you all of a sudden get people wh are intrested in you and then whenyou pay for another month they dissapear. It has happened to me and having spoken to friends the same thing happen to them!!!!!!!!

I believe that there are fake profiles that are used to either entice you to join or as Kevin says to encourage you to re subscribe, this has happened to me several times, it took a while to catch on that this was happening, but it’s funny how these people who mail you never return your message if you do write to them – happens every time. I’ve also had the dodgy nigerians but they are easy to spot by thier strange use of the english language. PS i’m in the UK where Match is now owned by Meetic corp

There seem to be too many dating sites out there with questionable practices. When I joined BabyBoomerPeopleMeet.com as a paying member I discovered that the 20+ messages that I supposedly had were made up of “flirts” and “bookmarks” and only one actual message. But, they also listed the flirts and bookmarks separately. So, it appeared I had over 40 guys interested in me. It’s deceptive and they should not be allowed to get away with it. Their online Customer Service would not give me a straight answer when I complained to them. What a scam! By the way, this dating site comes under the umbrella site of People Media where they have over 20 other dating sites with the same practice. Beware!!

As a woman I’m certainly not happy with Match.com. I’ve paid my money, but apparently the men only submit profiles and never pay. So they can never contact me. I could contact them, but really what’s the point if they’re not serious, but are just lookers. The only email I’ve received IS from the Nigerians — funny that they spend the money hoping to make a lot more. Just like eHarmoney this was a waste of money.

I love how Match.com sends me daily matches and then when I go to click on some of them, it tells me that they are no longer members (gee, in just a day’s time?)or aren’t members anymore.
Pretty weird to me, is all I can say.

Aliza G, I think the profiles that go away by the next day belong to the scammers. I wasted four months of membership fees on Match.com , only to find out how many people are out there looking for vulnerable women. Also how many men think we are stupid enough to fall for that garbage..Now only use Match to seek out scammers and play with them. I like to get them to waste their time trying to get to fall in love with them. THere is one guy in particular who use the same guys photo on his fake profile. One of the names he uses is Gorden Harnnett. I had him hooked for a while, then told him I was in Haiti doing humaitarian work, and that I neeed him to send me money because I lost my passport and papers….He stopped typing back to me….I would not encourage anyone to use match.com. Save you money people, the whole thing is a scam.

I’ve personally experienced the situation where, right before my subscription was about to expire, I received a deluge of emails from some of the most desireable women I’ve ever seen online. It only took one instance of renewing (and watching all of those beauties vaporize) to understand that I had been deceived.

Sure, it’s bad enough that there are webmasters who would conduct business this way, but they get a lot of assistance when it comes to making members feel scammed at a dating site.

People tend to communicate with each other in a way that is fundamentally twisted.

The fact is, even among all the legitimate members, you have many who sign up on a whim, then realize 3 days later, “Oops, I don’t think I really want to date online”, and then “cut and run”. They are just as “unavailable” as the phantom members.

Until that issue is solved, I’ll stick to “supermarket speed dating”. Ha!

I actually spotted my boyfriend on the Match.com site! He had filled out a profile previously, never joined, but his profile was still being left on for women to check out. Needless to say, he has removed himself completely now. Also, I noticed that no matter how much time passed between checking the site, these men all had “Active in last 3 weeks” posted on their profile. What a joke!

My friends and I were just discussing that match.com has “fake” profiles. I noticed that around the time my subscription was coming close to expiring, I happen to receive quite a few e-mails. One “guy” e-mailed me the first two times my subscription was almost over. He claimed to have lived in the same city but couldn’t tell me anything specific. My friends think he is an employee of match.com and are there to reel women in. I am starting to believe it’s not worth my time or money.

I paid for a 6 month subscription to Match.com and I was amazed at the amount of emails and flirts I received from Nigeria scammers. I have complained several times to Match.com–reporting the profiles that were only interested in getting my money. This is a HUGE problem–not only with Match.com, but with eHarmony, and Yahoo Personals.

I’m also not happy with Match.com’s “6 Month Guarantee.” They advertise that if you don’t find your perfect match within 6 months, they’ll renew you for another 8 month subscription at no additional charge. This is of course, that you follow their strict guidelines for sending a minimum amount of emails to other members each month, maintaining a complete profile (with picture), and leaving your profile visible every day for the full 6 month period.

There was a time when I met someone (not through Match.com) and I hid my profile from public view for a brief period of time. When I realized that this person and I weren’t meant for each other, I turned my Match profile back on but because I had it hidden for a few days, Match.com claims that I basically nullified their guarantee.

I had a paid subscription to Match.com, but it expired about four months ago. I still receive a couple of emails from them each week indicating I have people wanting to contact me. They must still have my profile listed – what a scam!

It’s true! I received a spam email from babyboomerpeoplemeet.com and it had my match.com username and password in it! Where is this person suing? I’m going to join up. I am filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and BBB against match.com for providing confidential information.

As I appear to be a a fraud victim, I would like to give an opinion. Three weeks before my subscription was to expire, I was persistently emailed by a “lady” that purported to be very interested in a relationship although she was just outside my requested range of acceptable distance. Over the three weeks she indicated that she was interested in initiating a relationship over the distance. I provided my phone number during the last week of my subscription and even had investigated the idea of meeting and paying for the separate rooms and other expenses. The day before my subscription expired, she said that she would call and watch for emails. After the subscription expired, I received no emails or even a phone call. What does that say? I think it is obvious.

talking about fake profiles to make people extend their subscription period.i opened my profile on match.com, just to see what’s out there. within two hours of posting my profile, i received a message. of course, i couldn’t read it… hadn’t subscribed (in other words… PAID FOR IT!!!)… i was quite excited, so i paid £ 22 for a months subscription. nothing really happened over the next three weeks, so i decided not to waste any more money on it. and when you cancel they actually ask you why. not enough responses was my reason. as soon as i discontinued my membership, winks and emails came flying in. i think about ten in one week. that’s about 8 more than the three weeks before. and then, yesterday evening, after 742 hours of disappointment and two hours before my paying membership ended, i got an email from the most gorgeous person ever. the profile picture was very professionally made and could have been from the cover of any highgloss magazine. way out of my league. conveniently matched all the boxes on my profile. the profile text would have melt an iceblock. even with some strategically placed spelling mistakes, which, by the way, made it even more unbelievable, due to the fact that this persons profession was teacher. isn’t that a bit too much of a coincidence??? well, i stick with facebook.com. there is an app called “are you interested”. it’s free, you can send as many messages as you like and it’s real people, definitely….!!!!!

Besides the “fake” member problem there is a more widespread one that is just as bad. They do not delete any profile!
I met my husband on Match.com and we have been together almost 3 years. Soon after we met we both asked them to remove our profiles.
As of today they still have not done it. The profiles show us as “active more than 3 weeks ago” – which may be true. However, I am sure that paying members would like to know that the correct period is more like 3 years!
Last week they suddenly started to send us emails again with potential mates and invitations to email them.

I have also experienced the fake profile. The man’s picture on display I came to find out was not the man I was communicating with. How do they find these pictures and does the “real” person know they are on display. I would really like this poor person know his face is out there without his knowledge….Thoughts

My boyfriends was on Match.com while we were broken up. A friend of mine joined and she told me his profile was on even after we had been back together for months. I confronted him and he told me he had inactivated it, he did not know why it was still visible. Our relationship was pretty fragile and I noticed when he was looking at messages on his phone, that there would be some messages from girls at Match.com who were intersted. Of course, I’m thinking he is still on the site and is cheating on me. That site should be sued for potentially ruing relationships

This is very true! Match.com is a scam. It is loaded with fake profiles and I have yet to find someone who is real from the people I find attractive. My searches only bring up matches that don’t even come close to what I am interested. I am extremely disappointed! Glad someone stepped up and made a claim.

Greetings,

In an effort to keep this communication brief and to the point, I met ‘someone’ on an internet dating site who used the photos below to represent his self. Although I was suspicious, I continued communication with him via phone. We did not have the opportunity to meet, because according to him, he was scheduled to leave the county within a few days of us communicating because of a business deal in Nigeria. Within two months into a phone-only conversation he asked me to send him $17,000 to purchase a certificate (for security purposes) so that he could receive the proceeds of his business deal, which was due to yield $800,000. Needless to say, this confirmed my suspicions that he was a fraud.
Below are all the email communications I have received and the statistics he used.

Name: Andrew Jude Beckson
Age: 46
Height: 6 ft
Status: Never married, no children
Education: Ph.D. in Business Management
Salary range: $100,000 – $150,000
Residence: Franklin, Georgia
Birthplace: Malaysia (Father black from England, mother from Malaysia – parents married over 40 years)
Church affiliation: Good News, http://www.goodnews.or.kr
Phone numbers: 678-389-9619, 0112348021196560, 011233543889100, 01123414097120
Email: strongbeck@gmail.com
Other site he is on: http://www.adventistmatch.com/profile_frame_nm.asp?username=choosenheart

Profile posted in http://www.match.com
maximumsoul1234

46, Franklin, GA
Seeking Female 40-60 I need a Bride..
I am very simple and easygoing..I am easy on the eye and easy to associate with,I dont get upset easily and it takes little to make me smile..I love watching Movies and going to the Beach,so all i am looking for is someone that will come with me to the Beach..Lol…I dont know how to swim and i pray i find someone that will teach me how to swim,But its not compulsory you must be a swimmer before you can get yourself talking to me…Money is nothing but something that will all pass away at the end of the world,So why destroy a fellow human because of Vanity..Money comes and Go,But what matters more to me is Taking Care of Your loved ones and Family..Am happy being an Accountant But it will Fun having someone to think and Grow with you..I know My Queen is 100% Out There and Am gonna Find Her Know Matter How Far Away She Lives From me..Smile I am simply Looking for someone that will cook with me Cos i love to Cook and Eat…I hope that wont be a Problem,Cos i could eat 7 plates of food in a whole day….Lol…I will be in the Kitchen around 3;15am cooking instead of Sleeping…Lol…I just want a best friend,someone that understands that all it takes in this world is for two people to understand each other deep and all other things will work perfectly..I am in search of a woman that will spend the rest of her Life with me,Cos i am not getting any Younger and its tyme i settle down with One Queen…I know my Queen is Out there and God will send her to me..I want To Hold My Queen With My Strong Arms and Make Her Feel Safe and Secured..

I must have made someone mad on match. Someone took the same pics from my profile and created a fake profile – which caused a beautiful woman to claim I was a fake and break our date (sorry Jennifer in SF I really wanted to meet you). I can’t imagine what I did to make someone take that much vengeance. Match had a human review every profile pic, yet they allow the same pics on 2 (or more) profiles. How can someone do that, isn’t there a way to check the pics for repeats?

I am certain that Match have a policy of using their own fake profiles to lure people into paying a fee. I visited their website yesterday and found an incredibly well written profile on a very pretty prefect girl who supposedly lives less than a mile from me. The same girl that was on the site last time I was single a few years ago. The profile was now saying that as her sister had found her dream man on match she thought she’d give it a go. Well if she is real, she’s been giving it a go for a few years now. Not just giving it a go now.
3 years ago this girl did not respond to winks, messages or anything, which you would have thought she might as I was so local.
No, match are definitely defrauding people in my view.
Someone should investigate them and audit their books to see who is real and who has been hired from an agency.

I think even if u haven’t been active for a few months, it always displays ” over 3 weeks”
has anyone found one that states longer than that? For instance, over two months, something like that?
I think the three week thing can mean that and well over that.

Match.com sends out fake winks and emails to entice subscrubers. When they have a “Free” day or your subscription runs out they send you an email with an unbelievable match which disappears when you sign up. Dont use this site they are scammers.

It no longer seems to be possible to remove your profile from match.com. The methods given on other sites no longer work, i.e. there is now no longer any “Cancel” under “My Account”.

The worst for scamming is datetheuk.co.uk . I set up a minimal profile saying nothing at all about myself so that I could search and see if it was joining. I regularly get emails from women quite a lot younger than me. I now have two (UK) ladies aged 27 emailing me and wanting to talk. I am 56. Do me a favour. Just possibly if I had a photo that looked like a film star, plus loads of moolah, but no photo, no info. Rip off.

Wow, I wish I saw this months ago. So now I know. If anyone winks at you, then they are fakes if they have not viewed your profile. Now assuming that this rule holds, I had a genuine wink from a Venezuelan girl, followed by 3 fake winks from a Swedish, Filipino and a Canadian girl at roughly the same time. (I have also been tricked by a Nigeria scammer who did exactly the same thing, a wink and no view)

Anyway I really wish I didn’t spend so much time corresponding with the Swedish girl. Her story was very convincing but meant passing up on the real girl. I was being spammed by match.com and ironically inhibited from finding a true match.

I would like to contribute one tool to anyone trying to detect if their correspondence is genuine, if you leave your email and they reply using their own then they are real. Of course Match.com try to prevent this and in some guidelines they even say it is dangerous to do so as it can lead to stalking (It really doesn’t), in fact Match don’t want you to find a match, they just want to retain your patronage to their site and keep you hanging you on with brief correspondences with overseas fakes.

My disillusionment came when I got a wink from an Asian girl after my subscription expired. Oh how naive I was, I winked at her and when I subscribed again, profile gone! They sacrificed the fake profile to avoid actual interaction. However in her profile she liked wine tasting but didn’t drink alcohol – what is the likelihood of that anyway?

I found it suspicious that close to my renewal date, I’d always get a really interesting letter from a super hot girl, who’d fizzle immediately after I renewed. I finally figured out the second time, that this is the hook that match gets you with. They have your preferences, so they just send the bait so you’ll renew.

Okay…I read all the comments. I agree there are fake profiles on Match and such. A bit ago, I joined Match after my divorce, I actually had about 55 dates locally in a little over a year. Dates with actual, real men. Truly, all were interesting and good guys. I am attractive with a real life (not model material) and as unpopular as this may sound, I believe that most men on there need to not look at online dating as a smorgasbord of hot women, and truly look for that ONE person who has a great heart and a good life (like me!)
p.s. I avoided the fakeys, looked for the red flags and dated within my locale/age range and did not entertain anything less that acceptable (to me).

How long have you worked for Match.com, Kara, darling?

How do nigerians scam you on this site? how do they go after your money like some of you are claiming?

Non-paying members cannot respond to emails, but this policy is not clearly stated nor is there anything (obvious) in their profiles that indicates whether or not they are paying members. The implication of all these profiles is that if you pay money you can communicate with these members, but the reality is that you can only do so if they are ALSO members. Which is highly, highly deceptive.

I’ve just recently asked Match.com for a refund, and if (as I expect) they refuse then my next step is Attorney General of New York.

It seems these are the set “active” categories:
Online now
Active w/in 24 hours
Active w/in 3 days
Active w/in one week
Active w/in two weeks
Active over three weeks- this means 3 weeks and way beyond( months, years)

so, for instance, the 24 hour status will switch to 3 days if it’s been Over 48 hours. But will state 24 hours up until the third day. If that makes any sense.

Oh yes there are so many fake I can give you 2 ids who belong to the same person armand1333 and armandexplorer from maryland…. He is not the age he should be and he pretend to be someone he is not…. He has a wonderful girlfriend who is supposed to care for…. So yes any one can open a match,com account as long as you pay then, they dont care about anything else

OK, I read all the previous reviews last week and signed up to Match.com. You guys are absolutely right, here is the breakdown from the minute I signed up:

* 24 hours – 2 winks (picture not posted yet)
* 72 hours – 3 email & 6 winks (picture posted)
* 7 days – 6 emails & 10 winks

I couldn’t check the emails, but I could see the winks, most girls are at least 10 years younger and live in other states.

8 of the 10 profiles that sent me winks “could not be found anymore”! I’m pretty sure the 6 emails are scams from fake profiles too.

This site and others like it should be investigated for fraud and brought down.

Yahoo offered a free 4 day trial, but I Googled a bit and found a link for a 7 day trial.

After signing up I got quite a few winks and emails, and one guy in particular caught my eye, so I winked back. He then messaged me, and we continued to message each other back and forth over the course of 5 days, then suddenly the messages from him stopped.

I had thought about renewing my membership after the free trial, mainly because there were others I was still interested in contacting, him especially, and also another guy who was emailing me.

I signed up for 1 month subscription at a discounted rate–I emailed the other guy and we exchanged a few messages, then guess what suddenly he stopped responding too. And over 3 weeks no email from the other guy.

Like a girl I assumed it was me, but then I said that’s impossible because the email exchanges were lite, small talk no real specifics.

Oh and interestingly enough today I got two winks from pretty decent looking guys which neither of them viewed my profile, yet sent me winks.LOL When I went to view both of their profiles I got an error “saying the profile could not be found” this is when I’m logged in, yet when I log out and click on the link there profile pops up.

It’s truly sad that a company can toy with people emotions, especially people who are lonely and just looking to meet someone.

I only hope Karma serves it’s purpose!

Match.com is a nightmare. I keep getting ‘winks’ and emails that I cannot read because I am not subscribed. And now, I apparently cannot remove my profile. Why are they still using my profile knowing guys can never get through to me anyway?

Also, I have a friend who is bisexual but when he first signed up, he set his searches to only look for ‘women’. At that time, he was more interested in women (so he claimed). After a few years, with not much success on Match.com, he decided to expand his search to include ‘men’ but couldn’t! He phoned up Match.com who promptly told him he needed to set up another profile/account to search for men. That means he needs to pay and maintain TWO accounts just to search for both men and women!

WHAT A RIP-OFF!

Unbelieveable!! I’ve been well and truly had by the look of it!
I had realised that the overseas winks and emails must of been fakes as i noticed there was no view of my profile recorded, BUT

The ‘daily 5′ matches got me. Some i could see were real profiles and showed up if i done a search, but some did not show up whatever search i tried – i think these are very old accounts that are deactivated, and then used by Match to lure you into subscribing and sending email.

I had a few days as a free trial, and just before my time was up, this awesome girl pops up, not far from where i live, seems cool, very well written profile – that i’m sure is too well written for a spammer, active within 24 hours….. So i added to my favourites, then when my trial had run out, the girl dissapeared, i was so annoyed!! Couldn’t find her in a search, so, i subscribed for 1 month! Sucked in!! Found her from the recorded wink i sent, clicked on her profile and got the old, sorry we couldn’t find this blah blah blah ….!!
The interesting bit though, i clicked on the link below her picture ‘find more like her’ – and you’ll never guess what, there she was again! Same pic, but cropped differently, different username, different location, hardly anything written about her….. I’m still not sure what to make of it tbh, was she real and deactivated her account that day, then i just happened to see a spammers profile with her pic? Or was the profile a fake sent to me through Match to lure me into subsciption??

I think there are ALOT of fakes on the site, for all different reasons. Sooo wrong, not sure what i’m going to do about it yet, but this was a good start finding out more..

After reading a lot of this stuff and reading the website that tries to show you what a fake profile looks like, I did an experiment- I looked at a lot of profiles to see if the website was correct (for example: fake profiles only have 1 pic, and use horrible grammar, and don’t talk much), but none of these were correct. Alot of the FAKE profiles I’ve seen (I’d say almost all of 153 matches in a 500 mile radius of where I live) had more than 1 pic AND had a lot of content filled in. One fake profile I saw did match this website that teaches you how to spot fake profiles in that the height of man she wanted was as short as 3′1″ and as tall as 8′11″. What real, hot girl would settle for a 3′1″ midget, tell me that?!?
2nd experiment: I hypothesized that the NON-FAKE profiles were the ones that were “Online Now” or “IM Me Now” profiles. This hypothesis was incorrect: I tried IM’ing several ladies with nothing more than a simple: “Hello, how are you?” or “Hello, where are you from?” (I’m not that ugly either) and I did not receive a response from ANY of these ladies. Not even a simple: “I’m fine, but go away.”. Surely, a REAL girl who joined and paid for this match.com service would at least REPLY to a simple IM. Case proven: even the “Online Now” or “IM Me Nows” are F-A-K-E, FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
(which is extremely frusterating).

Okay…So I’m also convinced that there are fake profiles on Match.com to lure you in, but there are also some real people out there. I haven’t figured out how to tell the difference up front, but I know if they email me or wink at me and their profile is no longer available by the evening, they were probably not real. The real ones will still be there, they will respond to your questions, they will ask you questions, etc.

98% or more of the winks I get on match.com are fake.

I receive a fake wink about every other day.

There have been so many I gave up notifying match.com about them, and just simply delete them at the slightest whiff of fakery. Or rather, dont delete them at the slightest whiff of authenticity.

Why doesn’t match.com indicate new member status? Fake profiles would be easier to identify. Maybe match.com doesnt want that.

With all the money match.com must be making, why cant they develop technology to help *them* locate fake profiles in the same way that tools recognize spam emails?

To add insult to injury, they re-bill you without any notice that membership is expiring and your account is about to be charged again.

match.com is perhaps not a scam, but in my opinion it stinks. I have had a far better experience with another commercial dating site.

Well, Match.com is smarter then we all think. First and formost it is a for profit business. Technically they don’t have false profiles up nor do they hire employees to be fraud daters ( keep in mind that if you do not remove or hide your profile they leave it viewable and searchable for ever) but they do have code written that scores user profiles and targets specific users based on personal data obtained when an individual created a profile and entered their credit card information. Here is something to think about: when you signed up for your credit card did you use your SS #? Match just part of a larger corporate structure and combined they have the ability to search all or your personal information from your sign up and declaration you agreed to when you created your profile. They have your address, age, credit card, marriage status, kids and many other tidbits of info. Did you notice any differences in your mailbox after you created a profile, did you notice any more spams in you inbox, how about spams to your social networking sites or business networking sites. If someone asked for your detailed personal information to us as a marketing tool would you hand it over? Thats what you are giving match.

I’ve been on Match off and on for years. I’ve met some good guys and had a few longer relationships. I’ve also received winks and emails from obvious scammers, the first of whom I thought was real until he asked for money. Since then, I have been very suspicious of anyone who contacts me with a long email telling me how perfect I am for him (with lots of grammatical errors), men who wink from other states (often with glamor shot photos that don’t match their age), and men who don’t have phone numbers in my city. I was unaware, until reading some of the comments here, that match.com posts fake profiles as well. I will suggest that if you are off match.com, you can hide your profile so that no one can view it. At least, when I have done so, the profile is absent from searches and (hopefully) will not show up in people’s mailboxes.

I have experienced the same thing with Match. I had a 3 month subscription that just expired. All the sudden I have been favorited and received a wink. This pattern has occured several times over the past 2 years. I sign up, get no response, then after subcription expires… I’m favorited, winked and emailed.

Match.com scammers etc.

Steven Keith Nobles (aka’s Nathan, Nate, Keith, Steve)
woodburn Oregon
503-951-4120

working with a Sorenson Relay phone, is disabled in a wheel chair and using a sign language interpretor and system regulated by the FCC – Purple Relay phone service as well.

Scams MEN AND WOMEN

Uses the names:
Tarshelle Janet Gibson
Denise Murrell
Nathan George Smith
Annie Carruthers

snate111
snate112

Works with people in various states to accept or collect Western Union funds.

Asks you to send money to

200 Tout Street Woodburn oregon when in fact his adress is really *** Tout Street

Has forged an Oregon Driver’s license with the name of Tarshelle Gibson.

I believe this a growing VIRTUAL PROSTITUTION RING!

SCAMMERS!!

What about this…

http://www.ripoffreport.com/directory/Terry-Smith.aspx?p=2

19 Reports against him

Same person as Nathan Smith, George Smith, George Nathan Smith, Stven Nobels, Gregory Mahone, Greg Mahone, Steven K. Nobles, keith Nobles, Nate Smith

snate112 User ID yahoo

(Terry is supposedly his son)

WHAT IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING???? NOTHING!!!!

match.com is a fake I create premium or star accounts and I start to send messages between the accounts and nothing some messages (1/10) came later after 2 months the support center sucks and the personal cause suddenly came email with prohibitions about stuff that you even have in the profile or photos, like they return my photos for reason they say in the photo are children below 18 and in the photo is only me with my car in the garage and I’m 27 years old and the photos are same like others, I ran a survey and many people say and I say the profiles are fakes because the names of profiles they are in English and the name of profile are words randomly and the profile always say 25 to 45 years and everything else like description is empty and always this kind of profile appear when real users stay offline a while.

match.com is full of SCAMS and false women just like the whole of this FALSE world

I’ve been scammed by match as well. They stole money out of my account and refuse to give it back to me. I had cancelled my account and later on after it was supposedly over I kept getting emails. I went into my bank account and my match account and found it reinstated. Match.com reinstated my account and took my out of my bank account without my consent. I’ve decided to now be a voice for all those people who were scammed. I will be going to the authorities and the newspapers about this. Also I have a petition on facebook called Petition against Match.com (It is a scam). So please sign it so that we can bring this site down as well as those behind the scam. Thank you.

I tried a match.com free trial and I noticed over 50 winks at the start. I WAS able to converse with 3 or more of them, so at least a few of the contacts were genuine, if you’re a young 20-something average looking female. I was surprised too because someone who looks average or even plain doesn’t get this kind of attention in real life.

I didn’t suspect anything awry except just before my trial expired, when someone used their priority contact (forget what it’s called – basically you get one “special” contact a month to someone you really like) to send me a message. This guy was hot, had a full profile, etc. He wrote a warm but generic message. I emailed him back but I never got a response. Now what is the likelihood that someone would use their one priority slot to contact me out of dozens of other people, JUST BEFORE my trial expired, but not respond to an email? It just seemed off.

Anyway, I ditched the service before the trial expired.

Now I’m starting to think that online dating is asking for trouble. First, 60% of a relationship is body language and interaction – words don’t always cut it. And what if a guy doesn’t like someone because of the shape of their nose or forehead or thighs? It’s hard to know everything about a person from a flat photograph. Second, people can and do lie about anything on a profile. There seems to be a big problem with men (no offense) who trim years from their age or people who use younger photos. Third, who wants to pay $30 a month or more for the privilege of reading messages from bots and spammers?

Just go to groups that share your interests and try to meet people. Of course you may not want to take my advice, I’ve been single for years…

Let’s look at the logic of this situation.

You are paying over $30 a month to do the following:

1. talk to bots
2. talk to spammers
3. talk to fake profiles
3. talk to Nigerian scams
4. and most likely of all, talk to people that are not members of match, thus they cannot hear the sweet tender nothings that you send to them over cyberspace.

Can you see the logic of this situation? Nobody in the world would pay to do it with those stats. More people probably join match to browse than to subscribe. And those who do subscribe probably only do so for a few months, then they ditch the service in disappointment – BUT their profile stays up. So probably half of the people you see on the site (not counting fakes) are probably not even available to contact you. Surely the success rate of going to a bar or speed dating is higher than online dating.

Match is full of scumlords and weirdos.

One guy I went out with proclaimed with a smile on his face during our dinner that he is a recovering meth addict.

Had a great job, well off…confused the heck out of me.

I also noticed that after a few weeks if you complain or report to match how the site is like plenty of fish except paid based on the numerous and obvious FAKE profile contacts sent to me, they stop sending you ANY emails. I was averaging 20-25 emails each day. After I reported several obvious scam/fake profiles and told them the site is becoming worse than Plenty of Fish except that we were paying to be dry humped, my emails from men CEASED. COMPLETELY.

Good friend is a lawyer. Checking into it for me.

Match and EH are BOTH scams

I’ve used Match a few different times in my life and absolutely have met real people in real life and gone on real dates. Fake profiles are fairly easy to spot if you use common sense. Likewise, as someone mentioned, you can tell if a Wink is legit if the person has actually viewed your profile. I agree that the fact that they leave up inactive profiles is frustrating but an easy way to solve that is to never email anyone who hasn’t logged in recently. Match has to have some success from their site or they would go out of business. I’m sure they employ a fair number of marketing tricks, like any personals site, but overall they are no better or no worse than any other online socializing site out there. If there is no picture, don’t email. If the profile sounds generic, don’t email. If they haven’t been active in this century, don’t email. If the picture used looks like it came out of a catalog, it probably did. Email people that sound normal and reasonable and if you don’t get a response, it’s likely because they aren’t interested in you – not because they are “fake.” Online dating is brutal, no matter which site you use you are unlikely to get many responses back. Not because these sites are scams, but because people who date online are often flaky. Sad, but so true. How do I know online dating is generally legit? I met my last boyfriend online and three of my best friends married people they met on dating sites.

Thanks for this…your tip about “legit winks” and how they are only real when they have viewed you. This answers my post below as I was questioning the authenticity of winks when these girls were just disappearing within 24 hrs with an unavailable profile. I agree 100% with your take on online dating.

@DatingNOmore; Did the recovering meth addict guy you dated have messed up teeth ?

Very interesting comments. The default is “auto sign in” when you sign up. I have found that means that even if you just click into an email from a match.com person that it diplays your status as “online now” for up to several hours! You don’t have to open the match.com site for this status to be changed. And so the cycle of updating “active” status referenced above begins all over again w/o even actively accessing the site.

Is there a running list somewhere of fake profiles on Match.com?

I’ll refer to EJ’s comment. No complaints with Match.com. Overall very satisfied, and I have met a lot of women. It does seem a bit strange to get winks for good looking women after you let your subscription run out, but I won’t hold that trick against Match.com.

A follow up on my previous post. I have now received two winks from beauties in just in one day. It’s obvious these winks are fake, and Match.com is trying to get me to renew.

As of right now I have been “ONLINE NOW” on Match for nearly 12 hours. I do not have the phone app, I specifically unclicked “auto log-in” and even clicked “sign out” after my last session.

I have another computer in the house and logged onto an account I have simply for browsing without having to be logged into my actual account–low and behold…it still says my actual account is logged in!

On another note about 3 weeks ago I cancelled my subscription and removed my profile completely. I was home sick this week and decided I’d put it back up and browse since I had paid for the next 2 months anyway…well wouldn’t you know, I didn’t login from Friday morning til Sunday afternoon and VOILA: 33 notifications…mostly winks…from people in my area!!! Out of nowhere I have 33 winks/emails?! UM, I don’t think so, something is definitely shady….

I am disappointed with match.com and i will never ever use this dating site anymore.I’ve been scam last week but lucky no money involved.I thought the guy was real as his photo and in webcam is same person. and his profile was not suspicious at all. But just one day it happen that somebody pretend to be his mother lying to me about something and i am very doubt of this.And when I check on internet there are other person who was scam by the same person as mine. Those who are still use match.com please becareful of this person.doesn’t mean they have webcam they did not fake. They are very clever!

I was on Match .com and found a profile of a friend of mine on the other side of town.I printed it and asked her myself if she was happy about her matches. She read it and told me she was never with Match.com but that her photo was taken from FACEBOOK and profile was all BS. Found another friend on there too but havn’t confirmed it yet. DON’T WASTE A DIME ON MATCH.COM

3 out of my last 4 winks (girls that have actually WINKED me) were decent looking females. Suddenly, their profiles are “oops, unavailable” according to match within 24 hours.

Really? C’mon match.com, If I can’t communicate with these girls, then something is definitely fishy here. Stop throwing me a line without bait and quit the teasing to get members to renew.

CmAcKeD is my username – REAL members feel free to look up

If you want to know if you are dealing with a fraudulent profile there is a simple way. Create your own fraudulent profile and send interest to the suspect profile. If interest is returned you have confirmed the profile as a fraud. You will know your “winks” are legitimate if the only profile receiving winks back is your original. If both were winked back it is likely a fake trying to lure both into a subscription.

Stay away from Adventistmatch.com!!! They steal users’ money!!! They use practice of automatical renewal as a way to charge you twice! They promise to make a refund but in reality they will charge you twice! If you, by chance, forgot about your first profile and open another one, they will withdraw money twice from your previous account and then they cancel both profiles! They send a lot of e-mails like they try to explain to you “your charges and refunds” and how you are stupid, but it is zero explanations and does not solve your problem. You are charged TWICE and your profile is cancelled!
Awful service and awful rude workers are there! The site is full of spammers and the owners of the site are real cheaters! They are not Adventists at all, I guess. I am an Adventist and I am completely disappointed by this site and people working there. Shame to the site!!!
For whole week they were bombing me by their abusing letters every day, one man even called me with the same mockery and threats! I got a pile of letters from the site. They sent me 4 letters even on Weekend!!! It was a few days before Christmas Time! This was “so great” to lift your spirit up before New Year!
They are rude, bold, impudent and try to INTIMIDATE users! Finally, I called to PayPal who are mediators of the payment. These people very quickly realized and confirmed my double payment-charge and promised me to return my money!
The site also is full of spammers and not alive at all.
Stay AWAY!

I have been on match about 6 days and almost everyone I have chatted with are all fakes. This is the pattern: Most of them at Widowers, they are really really loving and good men and charish the floor woman walk on. They usually have one kid. They cannot write English well at all. Right away they want your yahoo.com email. Most of them have elaborate jobs like Medical Doctors for the United Nations. Oh and they are thier pictures are of models super gorgeos. I saw a picture of this really gorgeous man without a shirt, great body, young (about 27) and he was a poor Widower. It’s rediculous. I called match and the representative told me that there is a lot of men like that from overseas that try to con women for money. She told me to be careful. It is sad and it pisses me off. I only joined for 3 months, but I think I am going to cancel before. Does anyone recommend any other good website?

I have the same problem with match.com. I have used them three times and have only actually met one woman. She is great and though it did not work out we are still friends. BUT Only one. I have sent hundreds of messages. I am not Gods gift to women, I am very much aware of that! But come on, I am a decent enough guy with a serious profile that I spent a lot of time on with a dozen pictures, and only ONE woman out of a hundred or more I messaged would respond? On top of that, maybe 7 viewed my profile??? Those were probably the only 7 who were real.

For a while I was shocked that I never realized how pathetic I was, but I asked several women I know their opinion of my profile and they told me I should be getting responses to at least half of my attempts. (Good news is that I was introduced to a few of their friends via the old fashioned way)

I also responded to people who winked at me and never got a response back and noticed they never actually viewed my profile.

I will NEVER join a dating service on the internet again.

I’d like to know how to become part of the class action suit. I’ve sent over 200 emails and only met or received responses from about 3 or 4 legitimate people.

Please send me more information on this lawsuit. Thanks.