Are Dating Ads a Scam?

Are Dating Ads a Scam?

The blunt answer is YES, 97% of all online dating ads involve some kind of scam and or spam. Use extreme caution when clicking ads of the major networks like facebook, google, yahoo, bing, etc. This article intends to help you identify several scams used by those dating websites.

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Let's start by pointing the obvious. Publicity campaigns are expensive in all of the major ad networks, specially if they run continuously for several months in other to be effective. The first fact is, dating websites that run campaign ads need to have some sort of income to pay their bills and to constantly re-run those campaigns. That income is 99% associated with payed membership scams, or other general practice scams and spam.

Let's start by analysing the scams used by those dating websites:

N.1 Spam. A great percentage of these dating websites are just front covers for email or phone gathering techniques. These dating websites are usually fake, all their users are fake and exist to entice you to register. Once you have registered, your email will enlarge huge spam databases. So, the main income source for these websites is to sell their user database to bigger internationally run spam databases or, to spam "locally" by the dating website or other own affiliate website.

N.2 Payed membership scams. These websites will use all sorts of techniques to entice you to register. The ad, dating website front-page, registration process and or terms and policy do not mention payed membership. Once you have registered, you won't be able to use basic functions of the website until you upgrade your membership. Many of these memberships have outrageous values that range from $30 to $100+ per month.

N.3 Dating websites that entice you with ads or front-pages with many "model" looking users. All these users are obviously fake. This technique uses "gorgeous people" to entice you to register. Once you have registered it usually falls under the category of N.1 or N.2

N.4 Dating websites that entice you with ads or front-pages with many gorgeous looking girls. These websites are directed 100% to gender male users. All these girls are obviously fake and the technique is used to entice you to register. Once you register it usually falls under the category of N.1 or N.2

N.5 Dating websites that entice you with ads or front-pages by displaying millions of registered happy users. 90% of these users are fake, they really don't exist or they were enticed and are not using the website. This technique is just used to entice you to register. Once you have registered it usually falls under the category of N.2

N.6 Asian, Russian, Ukraine, Baltic, Nordic, Nigerian dating websites. Almost 100% are scams, that will entice the user to register and pay membership to use basic website functionalities. Also dangerous, they have many spammer and scammer users that only function is to lure you to give them money to help support sickness and hospital bills, travel to marry, school, etc. Once you have registered it usually falls under the category of N.1 or N.2

 Basic Website Functions

by basic website functions. The payed membership dating websites restrict all messaging functionality. Any user will be able to update the profile, add photos and receive messages from other users. But, you will not be able to respond to those messages without an expensive membership. 99% of the messages that you receive are fake, either done by automatic website mechanisms or by fake users. The only purpose of these messages is to entice you to read them and buy a membership to be able to respond.

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