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Jan Shares Her Experience With Feeling Scammed by Match.com

Share Your Story: Is This a Scam? Dating Scams Revealed

From Jan

What dating service or website did you meet at?

match.com

In what month and year did the dating scam take place?

first month june

How much money (if any) were you scammed out of?

$80.00

What details did the internet dating scammer share?

As a women who's 49 near 50, men on match, at least the real men had no interest preferred women 8-20 years younger, so I canceled weeks before my expiration. Immediately I get WINKS, maybe 6 all of a sudden, from Model perfect, only 1 photo profiles. Strangely had perfect lighting, like a stock photos, gushy text odd for a man to write this way. One photo was a athletic bike racer resembling Lance Armstrong with sunglasses, professional shot. He looked to be early 30's however the profile said 49. Summary all these were mocked up FAKE profiles, A 49 yr guy indicated he date 46-(66) years old women? HUH?

What did the internet dating scammer do?

They were fake, mocked up empty profiles. These typically have handsome, model looking men, perfect lighting, cloths, props and very little text written. No selection in preferences such as body type, age up to mid 60's for a guy in his 40's is a obvious scam.

Advice

  • Be careful if you use Match com, Especially if you are an older female, 40's and above. match will post stock photos of models to make it look like they have real profiles and men whom they Wink at you, and those profiles disappear.

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