Match.com? More like Match dot-con, claims watchdog: Cyber-lonely-hearts 'lured into forking out to view bot spam' America's trade watchdog claims the owner of Match.com, Tinder, and other dating sites, shafted its lonely-hearts by allowing obviously bogus bot profiles to feign interest in the singletons. On Wednesday, the FTC alleged in a legal complaint that Match.com and other dating sites owned by Match group broke US law when they let …
There has been a lot of allegations that these companies have people who make these accounts to get people to pay for accounts to view messages.
Amazingly the victims have said once paid up, they no longer get the number of interest again
Everyone knows the proper way is to find a bar, get shit face drunk, puke on the first woman you can get to stand still long enough to talk to, then wake up in the morning so hung over & sick you can't remember if you got lucky or not.
If you develop a burning rash and have to see the doc then you know you got some, otherwise try again next Friday...
*Cough*
Or so I've been told.
I'll get my coat, it's the one with the pockets full of bar receipts... =-}p
To be fair, I'm sure I've met plenty of people of many sexual persuasions (except probably not the A in LGBTQIAP) who'd use that as a dating "strategy" - in other words, get drunk along with other people getting drunk and make a choice which probably seems less sensible in the morning (including with people of a gender they'd not normally be interested in).
I'm pretty sure the OP was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek about it being the proper way to go about things, I took it to be more an illustration of how alcohol clouds judgement, especially when you're young and impressionable...
The problem is not how many you catch, the issue here is the fact that you monetize those you don't catch.
And frankly, a photo no older than a week and connecting with 5 people per week in order to "qualify" for a refund ? Do we have permission to work, or are we supposed to just spend all our time on your site ?
Dating sites are just a huge scam IMO.
You brought up the word "catch" and I automatically went down POF path.
Someone we know uses it constantly. Having to hang over that person's shoulder whilst they reviewed their 'contacts' just *once* made me decide that interweb dating is just a massive NO on my books. Under any circumstance. ever.
Judging by the garbage on there, I suspect it is 85% of all signups. The number of actual legitimate accounts is so small that it is a rounding error in the calculations.
Dear RussianMailOrderBrideBot
If you are looking for a $adjective man to do $weird_heterosexual_rituals, then why the $expletive are you contacting me. I don't look anything like a man you $abelist_expletive.
Its well known that these dating sites don't do much about fake profiles, as the more profiles they have the more money they make from their sites/apps than if they only had a a few thousand 100% verified accounts.
When i tried using Tinder the report button for reporting scam/fake profiles would consistently cause the app to crash, so they clearly weren't interested in doing anything about the fakes on their service.
The tactics described are 101 for scam dating agencies, and something I saw on Match.com and affiliated services back in the noughties.
It is one of the prime reasons I gave up on Western dating sites; 90% of what I was getting was scammer content, and many of the "real" people were posting fake facts about themselves (Refined lady with an athletic build = 300lb lard-ball with a moustache).
Some of the notorious Russian dating sites were less obvious with their scams, and had a lower percentage of scammers, others operated exactly the same as Match.
Still, in the end Match et all, saved me a lot of money; I ended up marrying an attractive Chinese girl; marrying in China costs less than £5 - 90p for the registration and a few quid get you two photos for the license.
Actually, most items now arrive in around 10-14 days although i do have some cushion covers that are overdue.
The biggest issue was FEDEX trying to squeeze her through the letterbox, her bum wouldnt fit.
Only joking, she is a lovely woman.
I spent 6 months out there when we got married, had a great time and didnt really want to come back to the UK.
If you're intellectually lazy, physically somewhat repulsive, have a big mouth and a relatively useless education (say, a mediocre upper second in dead languages), just take the path of other people who are good at basically nothing but love to hear their own voices—become a politician! Get some cheap prestige (say, become mayor of an important city) and wait for suitable victims to wander within groping distance.
No dating sites required. No need to go photoshopping your avatar. You can tell lies off-line, comfortably deniable.
Best of all, you can use the taxpayers' money to purchase improvements to your understanding of technology.
Has someone thought of starting a "Carbon Dating" site?"
Not sure about that, but around 60 years ago the BBC had a late night service where people could send in written profiles of themselves. You had to send the profile in on carbon copy paper. Staff would read profiles over the air, and you could write in to contact any matches you heard on the air. If someone matched you, you would each receive a copy of the other's profile.
It was referred to as a radio carbon dating site.
I think the most out of date photo I received was from a woman in Bishkek, I already HAD a photo of her from a Marriage Agency party, so it was obvious the one she sent me wasnt current; especially as it was taken with one of those old film cameras that adds the date at the bottom.
In the agency photo she was a slightly plump 35 y/o; the photo showed a skinny teen in a bikini taken 18 years previously.
Fun fact. When she found out I was also writing to another woman from the same agency, she stormed the building, forced her way into the office and tried to browbeat the staff into giving her the other womans details.
Lucky escape for me.
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