Postby Pinky » Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:18 pm
I paid $60 for a three month membership on Match.com, knowing they have the highest body count of victims for all the paid sites. When someone pays to post their profile and email other singles, they expect a modicum of protection. Match has always failed miserably at that. In fact I joined to chase someone's scammer from there. Another fact, about 80% of the winks and messages I get are from OBVIOUS (to me) SCAMMERS. I'm messing with a few of them, I got one to roll over and get on cam for me last weekend (will post him soon, I promise), but all the ones who actually write me get reported.
I don't report the winks from known scammers because those are the ones who are on free trial, but the scammers who email me, I know they've used a stolen credit card in order to purchase a membership so they can spam out their intros. Those need to be reported because a paid profile adds credibility to their scam for potential victims, the real cc owner needs to be made aware their card is compromised and it's not fair to match to have their service abused for any length of time.
The good news of hope is that Match.com now has a pretty efficient method of reporting. You can anonymously report just suspicions and they are apparently researching reports rapidly. Every one I've reported has disappeared within 24 hours. The options to report are, 1) Member is not located where they claim to be, 2) This member is using a stolen picture, 3) This member is using stolen information, 4) This member asked me for money, and 5) This member's profile seems odd or just doesn't add up. I think there are a few more options, I seem to recall one about making inappropriate sexual comments, but the important thing is that it appears that Match.com is finally getting serious about their scammer problems.
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