Do dating sites use fake profiles

Great point that you make about common interests though. At least that way, it's more than just superficial yabber over too many drinks: Thanks for the nice article. Can you let us know the dating websites that you did visit? I'm sure it will serve as a potential warning for others too. There are really a lot of mischievous people now a days.

They tend to trick or mislead people by showing good intentions then after that you will soon realize that their real purpose is to betray or use you. I missed your comment so thank you for that.

Are you referring to people you've met on a date that are misleading you or are these dating site owners doing that? I did a free sign up to a dating site and within 24 hours I had messages from 3 local ladies or couples all of whom had left nice comments on eachothers profiles amongst other comments received as being genuine and not time wasters. The site allowed communications but would block email addresses or numbers.

The lady wanted to meet so I signed up and then all correspondense ended with her profile and the other couples. From my early online dating experiences which were all pretty much crap , the object of their game is in luring people into their site with free stuff. Once they've got you in, you'll get all sorts of offers from matches you'd think unlikely BUT really interesting — maybe extremely attractive, very rich, wildly sexual — extreme offers that seem too good to be true. Online dating is huge money designed, mostly, to suck your money.

There's lots more opportunity out there which I describe in my eBook that are far more level headed, have integrity and operate with a high degree of transparency too. Sad you had to learn the lesson the way you did.

Glad you came out of it reasonably unscathed though. Best of luck in the future and thanks so much for visiting and commenting too.

How Dating Sites and Scammers use Fake Profiles

Honestly, I just keep to the well-known paid sites and the two big free sites: So far, things have been good, whether paid or free. Seriously, if you're a guy, unless you're ridiculously good looking, girls usually don't send the first message. You gotta do that yourself haha. That's why I felt something was fishy when you said you had responses that quick. Stick to the trusted dating sites and just keep playing the numbers game. I own two dating sites.

And as an owner with integrity, this is a real problem. It is bad for the industry to hear of these scams by dating sites. Basically, if it sounds like a scam it is a scam, beware.

However, we were so annoyed about it, we have set up a new dating site that simply cannot have fake profiles. We are launching soon — only in Australia at the moment. We think its quite a novel and innovative idea and goes a long way towards resolving these issues. The big question is though is how can you possibly prevent fake profiles from being created? Scam brings in a small percentage of ham so they simply multiply efforts for lots of scam ham: Hi, Thanks for the reply and your question!

I guess I was being a little facetious when I said there can be no fake profiles, because our site has no visible profiles!! So, some people could lie about their underlying profile…. However, members can only meet via REAL anonymous dates that they create and schedule! We also validate all members via sms. This is part of our identification process before members date. But you are right, overseas scammers will try anything and soon they might even crack sms validation.

And there are local scammers too. Wow, you really going all out in the fight against scammers, Brett — which is a great thing for the Mr and Ms Dating-Online too. And please do pop on back and let us know when you launch too. They would make a fake female profile, find their victims in chat rooms, trough msn, facebook or similar, and tell them that they need to connect at a certain dating website.

Once a guy signs up, dating company gets its money, the scammer called e-whore gets paid, and the poor victim left with a few bucks less and disappointed. Took me months to get off their mailing lists. Thank goodness I never parted with any credit card info — I can only imagine what nasty stuff might have happened. Yes it certainly is a learning experience.

I cant believe that I fell for it! They are very clever in some ways… but I did feel wary all along because the person was so full on for someone I had not yet met.

Up to 80% of all female profiles are created by the company itself!

Also they stick to emails rather than asking for an online chat…. It would be much harder for a man to pull the wool over your eyes on chat. Chat always makes it very clear as to where a guy is at. Anyway thanks again for your advice and comments! I think I have a guy who is trying to scam me… from the site ClickandFlirt…. I have become suspicious because of the poetic claims of deep undying love and now he is in Nigeria with his mother who is in hospital having breast cancer surgery. The surgery is of course costing lots of money and he is rapidly running out of money.

He has given me a couple of phone numbers and he has mine but has never rung. I tried sending a text to the one he has in Africa but have had no response. His pic is of a white guy supposedly living in Melbourne with business and family links to Africa… importing cocoa. Wow, I read that and immediately thought that all those signs point directly to a Nigerian scam.

The butter you up first, lead you on, give you a sob story and ask for money i. If you've already tried contacting him on numbers he's given you and he's failed to contact you back, I would suggest all the signs are there that this is, indeed, a con job. Yes thanks for your quick reply. I was thinking that it was all just too over the top… you know … too good to be true…. He had not asked for money yet… but I could see it coming…. There's plenty of other fish in the sea — thousands of perfect partners just for you so take this as a learning experience and move on to someone with integrity as well as someone you can trust and verify.

It's very common these days to get contacted by people in countries like Nigeria and Ghana who try to get inside your head and form a relationship, just to con and scam you. I knew watching out for scammers on dating websites was important, but I guess I didn't realize all that could happen. I'm glad I stumbled upon this article! Please do keep me informed too!

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Very thorough article btw. Martin February 7, at 1: Brett February 14, at 2: So, some people could lie about their underlying profile… However, members can only meet via REAL anonymous dates that they create and schedule! We are fans of your site too! Martin February 14, at 3: Igor July 8, at 9: The company said it had not admitted any wrongdoing but happy to reach a resolution.

Steve Baker, the lawyer who led the case for the industry watchdog told The Sunday Times: We are encouraging consumers and former employees to step forward and tell us about their experience. Creating fake profiles to lure users in is allegedly widespread practice in the online dating industry. Online daters are not only exploited through expensive subscriptions but there's an even more sinister side of the murky world of online dating.