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!!!!!!!!

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.

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.