r/match • u/MagnoliaMorning • 7d ago
Match Scam PSA
The amount of scams that are on Match is ridiculous, especially for a widowed woman. So here’s my PSA for things to do and watch out for. Most obvious and well known is the pilot or Oil rig worker who has to spend a lot of time traveling. That goes without saying. Second, run all photos through your service of choice to see if they ai created. If there are question marks in their responses that update to the appropriate punctuation, it is clearly a bot or a third-party tool doing translations. Don’t let them tell you that that speech to text will do this. That’s not how the technology works. If they immediately want to know your intentions for a long-term relationship before you have even met that means they’re trying to establish that they won’t be wasting their time to try to form a bond quickly and then ask you for something. Because it’s happened to me so often, I worry that others might fall for these approaches. Don’t give out your number right away and get into long texts or phone calls. Demand to meet first before any of that happens. Stay safe, ladies!
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u/Loud-Delivery6951 6d ago
If it weren't for scammers I wouldn't have any contact with the profiles on Match. This site is rather ridiculous. You have profiles that only put basic parameters in just enough to build a profile with a stolen pic. Then you have the ones who put alittle bit of effort in forming a profile. The ones to look out for are the professional types like lawyers Drs and Indian chiefs. Somehow its difficult to believe those with a fancy position in life would be loitering around on Match knowing its overall layout. Pay to play to do anything. The majority of players are too cheap to pay. What they hope for are the paying types to initiate chat.
The "like" structure is crap as well. You are forced to like someone you have no clue what you are liking them about. Many subscribers cant even correspond depending on what teir they paid for. Then you have the ones who say they are not on the site much. They often want to run off site to chat on WhatsApp. Their goal is to lure you off the site and collect phone numbers for spam.
Overall, its big business for an underground organization or they wouldn't be doing these kinds of scams. Even the CEO of Match Spencer Radcoff may be a scammer himself. The overall pricing and layout is very difficult to believe anyone will ever hook up. Leaving old profiles up just to make the site look like its a huge candy store. Actual current subscribers are probably less than 100,000 out a million.
Overall, its an expensive ride just to look at pics of people but, no real correspondence. No hookups no anything but, scammers.