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Author: Jarrence

I have been using their free service to investigate and it's very clear that there are many fraudulent fake profiles on this site using real people's images without their permission.

There are multiple profiles using the same profile picture pulled from other dating sites, but with different information, presumably mixed and matched from other profiles on other sites, for example the same picture of a woman is listed as 30yo and 26yo with different stats and descriptions.

The site seems to automatically generate supposed messages from these fake members, that you need to pay to view.

The "messages" you get from the supposed members come into your inbox shortly after you view their profile, and while their profile still reports that they are offline. Telepathy? The online/offline status changes intermittently and does not follow any waking / sleeping pattern, it is random and computer generated.

The basis of this "working" is that even if you pay for a subscription, the "messages" you can finally read are all from supposed free members who would only be able to send a small number of pre-written ice-breakers for free, thus creating a seemingly plausible alibi for the scam's creators - that you can not determine for certain whether a real person selected the pre-written ice-breaker or whether it was automatically sent (which is quite obviously the case).

The true test which reveals this type of scam, comes in you the user creating utterly undesireable profiles, either very unattractive or explicitly asking real members to NOT message you if they are legitimate. When one does this, one still gets the automated messages.

Statistical analysis also shows proof of the scam: on a real dating site, my same profile would get less than 1/100th the number of messages, and generally from much less attractive women if at all. How does cupid.com explain that within the same general population, I get 2 or 3 messages every 6 months on a real dating site and I get 20 messages in a night on their supposedly real site?

The payment system is misleading, it automatically converts to a recurring monthly subscription after your 3 day paid trial is over. This is admitted in the tiny, unreferenced text at the bottom of the page, and worded in a misleading way to imply that you selected the monthly subscription by selecting the 3-day trial, and thus they are only renewing the subscription you "selected", when in fact you specified 3 days not a month, which is a separate option.

The Site Admin supposedly sends a welcoming email inviting you to ask for help if needed, but he does not reply.

Even when you try leave, you cannot delete the profile you have created, and the profile goes on to be used amongst the army of automated pseudo-profiles. The only way to truly bring them down is to saturate the site with profiles that reveal the truth.

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