Comments on: Match.com Responds to Match.com Lawsuit

By: diaphanouslady

diaphanouslady — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:38:59 +0000

I have been a member of Match for a while - was active in the midwest, dropped for a while when I was dating someone I met, and then joined again when I moved to the east coast recently. I can tell you that at least once a day or more, I get these “winks” from members whose profiles are so obviously false, or trying to hoodwink you. Each and every time I send them to Match and then I usually see that the profile has been ‘removed’ - but the same photo often comes back again as a different user name.
You can always tell because of the way they are written up - someone with a PhD in electrical engineering who can not compose a complete sentence without a plethora of spelling errors. Someone who promises you the world, to be your one and only, to love you forever - before you have even met…yuk!
I have written Match and notified them to cancel my membership because they SHOULD be screening all memberships - I can meet trash anywhere for free - certainly don’t need to pay for it!

By: Concerned

Concerned — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:17:32 +0000

I discovered that one member, who was abusive to me, was recently convicted of stalking and is now in the appeals proces in court. I reported this to Match.com, as I was concerned about my safety and the safety of the multitude of other women this man is contacting. Match.com has done nothing. This person is still allowed to solicit women online even though he is a convicted stalker. How irresponsible of Match.com! By not blocking the accountes of such people, match.com is endangering the lives of their members.

By: Victor Conedy

Victor Conedy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:47:29 +0000

I think some people are missing the point. I am not on Match.com, but I am currently having a problem with another site called Blackcrush.com. The point I am making is that the “dates” are not really dates, if that other person works for the company. Even if they meet and fall in love and have kids and stay married for the rest of their life it is still fraud. The reason it is fraud is because, what I described NEVER happens and the person dating is being paid and is NOT an actual paying member. If you fell in love with and married a prostitute, it is not fraud, because you know what you are getting into. There is certainly a difference between a subscriber lying and saying he makes 100K a year and the company itself providing fake dates to get subscribers to stay on. Give me some feedback on this; I wrote to Blackcrush and about 150 of its “paying members” asking a question and have not received an answer from any of them in two weeks!! Here is the question:

Can you help me with something? The reason I wrote to you is because I am having some real problems with responses on this site. I just cannot get past the fact that not one person, who lives with 50 miles of me, has responded to my e-mails. People who live 1200 or miles away or more respond at about the rate of 99%! If that happened to you, would it make you suspicious? I mean assuming you actually wanted to meet someone and not just chat or e-mail. That is the question I cannot get ANYONE to answer. I have called customer support and they say they have never heard such a complaint before. This is very frustrating…especially if you know what “PonFarh” (my screen name) means. If you have ANY insight into what my problem is, I would appreciate an answer. I mean it would even be helpful if your wrote back and said you didn’t understand it either. At least that would be an acknowledgement that it is a problem and not just coincidence. If I were hideous or something, then NO ONE would reply, right? But how is it that people are online, with profiles that say, “I am looking for a man, now” and they live 4 miles away from me, will not at least respond to my emails? Additionally, some of these people are on-line (according to the website) for 4 and 5 hours at a time!! What are they doing? Chatting with 254 other guys? Are they inundated with thousands of emails and just cannot get to mine? Is there some trickery on the part of the website? What can it be? I REALLY NEED TO KNOW! Thanks.

I have sent this out to about 150 people on this website and NOT ONE has replied. The emails I do get are “winks” and “hellos” from people who live over a thousand miles away…even though my profile say specifically “DO NOT CONTACT ME IF YOU LIVE OVER 50 MILES AWAY”. How is it that 30 or 40 people do not see that LARGE restriction on the front of my homepage? I truly believe that there is a program that has been intentionally written to send out fake messages, and to insure that the messages are sent by “members” who live hundreds of miles apart so that the paying member hangs on for months and months hoping that they will find someone closer or maybe even meet the “person” that is corresponding to them. I bet that if I register under a different name and say I live in New York, using the same picture, I will get response from people who live in California! Not joking, I really think that.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:31:19 +0000

i was a paid subscriber to match.com but after months of nothing i cancelled as soon as i cancelled i got a wink form a wome that looked interesting so in order to e-mail and talk to her i had re subscribe,as soon as i did and tried to contact her it said her profile was no longer available. this happened a couple of times and when i contacted match.com they admitted to me it was fake and refunded my money.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:31:08 +0000

Yahoo Personals is way worse… I report 50 fakes a week in just my Zipcode… But then there is TRUE that is a complete joke. And if you go on “Adult” Singles sites, it almost 100% fake profiles. If anyone has a Facebook profile, you see the stupid ads everywhere… Of the superhot over 30 woman. Yea, right… she needs to be on a singles site!! I have reported hundreds of fake profiles on Yahoo.. and they delete some of them… but only when i threaten them. It is a joke. The profiles are obviously fake.. They are SCAMMERS!! Tricking desperate and naive people out of money… then probably funding terrorism. They are all the same.. and some of them are literally the same, but a different city! And they advertise a strict screening process and 5 star security!!?? Bullshit… Its all about money. They figure they will get money from the scammers buying memberships… and/or will get money from desperate suckers that fall for the gorgeous supermodel profile.. which just so happens cant speak a sentence of English. It a joke. Someone i know was scammed by one of these people… out of alot of money. She was naive… and new to the internet dating thing… and got wiped out. This shit has to stop. Im tired of greedy assholes taking advantage of people. CEO’s and everyone else.

By: nobody

nobody — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:57:56 +0000

I’m pissed… I signed up for this bogus website yesterday used it for approximately 3 hours. I go on this morning and they terminated my account. I don’t see how I did anything wrong when all I did was make my profile and browse around a little. I email them and they said due to their privacy policy they can’t give me any details onto why my account was terminated unless I get a subpoena. So pretty much I paid $65 to use it for 3 hours. I want to punch the tv everytime I see a commercial and I will make sure one of my friends make the same mistake I made of signing up!!! This is seriously bullshit!

By: newland65

newland65 — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:06:35 +0000

thought it to be a rip-off, but had to try.. over 200 women replyed to my profile,, after writing them back a fat Zero returned my e-mail’s.. fake you bet. fraud if there was ever any questions.. sue them…

By: William

William — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:17:13 +0000

Please accept our apology for the delay in responding to your inquiry.

We take the privacy and security of our site and of our customersâ€™ personal information very seriously. We understand your concern.

We have received from you both a claim of a fraudulent debit card charge and a claim that an unauthorized person accessed your account. Additionally, we have discovered emails that violate our terms of use that were sent from your account.

For the above reasons, your account has been terminated, and all funds paid on the account have been refunded back to the credit or debit card used to initiate your subscription. Credits will normally show up on your statement within 10 days of the date issued.

Additionally, we have preserved all relevant information regarding your account. Should you desire to have any type of investigation conducted or obtain any additional information regarding your account the process is for you to obtain a validly issued subpoena and submit it to our legal department. We will fully cooperate with any request for information that is presented through this channel.

Should you elect to cause a subpoena to be issued regarding the Match.com account in question it may be submitted to our legal department via email to legal at match dot com or physically mailed to:

Match.com
Attention: General Counsel
P.O. Box 25458
Dallas, Texas 75225

At present we consider this issue closed unless we receive a subpoena. Please donâ€™t hesitate to reply directly to me if you have any further questions or concerns.

Regards,

Wilson Meador
Executive Agent
Match.com
214 576 3255

By: William

William — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:58:09 +0000

Someone at Match.com hacked into my account . . .
illegally obtained my membership information . . .
used my credit card to withdraw $271.90 from my personal Wells Fargo account . . .
sent several fraudulent emails to several women Iâ€™d contacted yesterday, telling them things like, â€œSo, do you want to fuck or not?â€?
sent me two different fraudulent emails with the Match.com logo and graphics, informing me of â€œpassword changesâ€? and other changes to my Match.com account . . .
permanently locked my computer out of the Match.com website, so I cannot access it unless I go via MSN.Match.com . . .
customer service was rude and unhelpful, and placed me on hold for many minutes while a supervisor was dispatched . . .
supervisor took history of incident from me and said she would report it to the â€œexecutive team,â€? and flatly refused to give their contact phone number. . .
my Match.com account has been locked up for fraudulence, so I cannot access my emails to tell those women I did not send them those horrible missives . . .
someone at Match.com customer service refused to give me a refund for my membership of $39.99, even though I fully explained the situation above . . .
even though this is a clearly fraudulent case, no one from Match.com has taken the time to contact me about it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:48:10 +0000

Internet dating to me is just plain stupid! Everyone i’ve met who has met someone from the internet has had a failed relationship! Majority of the people on those websites are married (yes, women also) and are looking for some outside action from their spouses. Those websites are for the ‘not so hip’ people who are truly afraid to get out into the real world and meet people the old fashioned way. So, the make a profile-making themselves look as perfect as possible with a few paragraphs, and go to bed hoping and praying that someone will send them a wink and fall for their lies and go out on a date. It’s just pathetic and I feel sorry for all the people who pay their hard earned dollars just to meet someone!