Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2007 @ 05:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Frankly a lot of sites deserve the low reviews. Even bigger name dating sites often scam other places for users, which is patently unacceptable from an ethical and commercial standpoint. I'm sure there are actually some fantastic people at some of these sites, but ANY site that posts false personal ads on other sites to entice people to sign up does not deserve my money or time.

I've been doing some sampling over the past few days (originally started out looking for a hookup, but after I kept getting nearly identical responses pointing to one dating site or another, I've been replying more out of curiosity than anything else). Taken just from the personals ads off Craigslist that didn't get flagged in the first half hour, twenty emails received 15 responses, ALL of whom turned out to be fake. Notable sites that kept coming up: Fling.com, Booty411.com, AmateurMatch.com, AdultFriendFinder.com, AdultLocals.com, Singlesnet.com, and LikeToCheat.com.

Those sites can rot.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2007 @ 08:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Any dating site that wants to improve could do the same work that you did to discover the bogas info. In fact, a computer program could do that checking every time a new member is added. There's $$$ to be made for the one who writes this program.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 16 2009 @ 09:39 AM Eastern Standard Time

The answer to this is so simple: dating sites, especially those that exist to assist you in finding a hook up for sex, understand something the users refuse to admit to themselves: the reason they are having trouble getting dates and getting laid is that they are losers. The guys are looking for some easy nooky, the gals are looking for Mr. Perfect, and neither are able to make that happen in the real world. Naturally, there are thousands entrepreneurial souls out there who are more than willing to separate the desperate from their money. It shouldn't take more that three functioning brain cells to figure out that a web site to get you hooked up with some hottie for a quick romp or even the perfect mate is nothing more than a scam. Forget on-line dating sites. Even the legitimate ones aren't worth the incredible amount of time and effort needed to find someone compatible. That energy would be better spent getting out in the real world and looking for love and sex in the old fashioned way. It's more fun, too. More importantly the failure rate for relationships that are the result of on-line dating sites is many times higher than those that began traditionally. That's because on-line is not real and the prople participating in this activity don't have realistic expectations.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 19 2009 @ 11:17 PM Eastern Standard Time

I could not agree with you more.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 24 2009 @ 03:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time

You are 100% correct, don't waste you time online it hardly ever works.Get out into the real world you will way more success.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 17 2009 @ 03:31 PM Eastern Standard Time

I am going to come out and just say it... I work for Fling and Global Personals. These posts are from 2007 mostly and this was at a time where internet scammers were allowed to run rampant. Online dating was new and Fling and even their competitors did not have systems in place to fight off the multi-million scam and fraud industry. This has all since changed. Global Personals has one of the top scam and fraud prevention systems in place.

All fake profiles were setup by scammers and the same with those seemingly automated messages. If you were to try the site today you will find a much different experience one that current users rave about in the forums. It is true there will always be more complaints than positive we all seem to neglect he positive in our lives not just with dating. Don't believe the hype. We all like to hear a good conspiracy but the truth is that comparing online dating from two years or even a year ago to today is a whole different ball game. Fling and the like are pioneers in this industry and this is why the remain to this day some of the top sites on the planet.

To be honest and fair if you look at the number of complaints filed compared to the number of satisfied paying customers we are talking less than 100th of a percent. THAT IS A FACT.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 30 2007 @ 11:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time

WARNING WARNING WARNING: Fling.com is little more than webcam girls, escorts, Russian girls looking for easy money and other liars. Stay away. I haven't met ONE SINGLE REAL PERSON in the month I've had it. Spammer abound. Please don't spend your money. If you want webcammers you can get them on craigslist for free.

I am so frustrated that no one else seems to realize this.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2007 @ 10:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Look at "It's Just Lunch." They receive SCATHING reviews. Franchised all over, yet ALL of the complaints, male or female, seem to give the SAME complaints. They don't even try to match you up right. Look at consumeraffairs.com and It's Just Lunch. ANYBODY with feedback on It's Just Lunch, please let us all know.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 19 2007 @ 04:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Don't worry I also tried fling because it was all over the place....From the women I messaged I got 3 responses with the same email.......what a scam......I will never try another site again.....Also I didn't know recognizable pornstars like Isabella Soprano lived in my zip code....God...I'm so pissed

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 29 2007 @ 04:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Hahah! I signed up for the 9.95 trial and was charged ANOTHER 9.75 ontop of that because I failed to see an auto-checked box...stupid me. Within minutes of being an active member fraudulent scammers began to contact me. I was very flattered that Wifey, Isabella Soprano, Melissa Midwest all wanted to get in touch with little old me...this site is BOGUS!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 01 2008 @ 06:51 AM Eastern Standard Time

Those guys that commented on Fling.com are totally right. I got suckered by it. F%!@ Bull@@^&T!!!!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 19 2007 @ 01:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Thanks for the warning! I almost signed up! I had a hunch about it after hearing some rumours that support what you say.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 23 2007 @ 04:08 AM Eastern Standard Time

this is partially true. i signed up for a free 3 day trial.. and met about 50 spam/cam girls trying to scam me out of my money.. but i did meet one girl from my area that is my age (20) and we've been talking on the phone and everything. . . . comes to find out she just wants friends with benefits.. so we meet up and i get some poon every now and then. thanks fling for the poon. but.. its was hard to find a real girl.. i will agree to that

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 01 2008 @ 06:47 AM Eastern Standard Time

I was suckered in. Your right. They're all webcam girls. It's BS

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 30 2008 @ 08:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Fling.com is definitely 99% scam with hookers and the "come join this better site where I have all my pics and phone number" I canceled my trial membership on the second day.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 15 2008 @ 09:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time

I was considering joining fling.com but after reading the horror stories on here I will definitely not join this, or any other sites like this!!!!! Thanks guys for saving me time and money.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 18 2009 @ 10:57 PM Eastern Standard Time

its not just fling, amatuer match has the same thing,, no one replies,, and when they do its a canned response,, i was there a month,, got 6 hits every day,, i have NEVER had a problem getting women,,im tall, sexy got money and still,, these sites promise you much and offer you little,,,, the couple gals that i did contact are pros,,, be careful on AMATUERMATCH, fellas,, dont spend your money,,, go to the bar and cut the fat one out of the herd,, youll be wayyy better off i wish i could make every guy see that if we werent so set on findin the pretty ones we would notice the gal at minimart,,,who will bang yur socks off and be glad to have ya,,, c`mon guys,, you know im right beddytear,, ps,, there are ladies who just want to be told how pretty they are,, even the fat ones like to hear that,,,,

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 21 2007 @ 01:11 AM Eastern Standard Time

I agree with what has been said about FLING. A Total Scam. One woman that approached me let it slip that she worked for FLING. There are two types of women. One that sends you to a third party web site. The other type tries to get you to sign on to her webcam for $4.99 (to start). AmatuerMatch.com is not as bad, but still I wasn't able to find anybody for 3 months. I quit in disgust and the next day I started getting 4 to 5 messages a day telling me they loved my profile. Hmm, my profile said, 'This site is a scam. Don't contact me. I won't respond. You're all fakes". That was 60 days ago and the messages are still coming! Women are dying to meet with. I especially like the messages from women that say "we're so close, we've got to get together this evening for drinks" and they live 500 miles from my zip code. So far I have yet to find ONE site that is worth it. I've been on half a dozen and they are all worthless.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 27 2007 @ 06:43 PM Eastern Standard Time

fling.com is a fake!!! I just joined today, and within 8 hours, I've received 10 replies to emails I sent this morning. all of them want me to email them on yahoo or hotmail addresses. Further, two of the hotmail aliases consist of the same name within one letter, only different combination of letters. Further both were super good looking and lived in a little podunk farmer town. BEWARE, I cancelled two seconds ago, after I found this site confirming my beliefs.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 16 2007 @ 10:37 PM Eastern Standard Time

WOW!!!!!! I am shocked and upset and jealous all at the same time!!!! I went to fling.com I don't even remember how I got there but whatever. So I signed up for a week trial as a "Gold Member" and searched my city and find a bucnch or real good looking women and I'm like okay so where's the ugly broads at??? You mean to tell me that I only have sing horny gorgeous chicks all over my area?? NO WAY!!!! Exactly no way.... Came across some chicks I was diggin and sent out some messages and while I'm doing this(mind you I don't even have my pic up yet) I get this super hot chick from LA hit me up. Instant messaged me asked if I wanted to chat and so 4 or 5 lines into this conversation she ask's me to follow this link she pasted. I go to it and it's this webcam crap where they want my credit card info to sign up and she's telling me it's free! hahahahaa Well I told her sorry I wont pay to watch her and she quits talking to me. Next after I sent out about 5 or 6 messages I get and email on there from this chick in Dallas tellin me she thinks I'm sexy(now my pic was there so I wasn't too sure ) and hopes to talk to me soon. While I'm reading that message she IM's me and I accept I was like "you're really sexy but too far" she then goes on about how she's in my city and wants to have some fun tonight. Then she asks me if I'll make a deal with her I said "sure, why not" she tells me that "the deal is this, you're gonna come over tonight and hang out with me" I said sweet! she then said "all you have to do is vote for me" . gives me a link and boom same old cam site..... STAY AWAY FROM FLING.COM

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 14 2009 @ 10:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time

The reason is simple-online dating while in theory is a great idea-does NOT work.

I used PRINT personal ads for nearly TWO DECADES and I had so many dates and long term relationships than I can remember. I even met my one and only wife (now ex wife) via the print ads in a local Dallas, Texas paper. But the print ads did work for reason that i won't go into to since this is another subject.

But with on line dating and the fact that computers are cheap compared to what they cost the last time I bought a new one in 2003 ($2000.00) and the fact that you have people that love to stir up trouble, literally insane people online, scammers, fakes, bored people-every type of person but the one type you are seeking-the one that is actually SEEKING a relationship. those people have given up, been run off by the rift raft mentioned that you are left with a membership of scumbags.

Women complain there are no good men, they want suger daddies, they seek the impossible.

Men are maried cheats seeking 20 year old models.

I could go on.

But the bottom line is that the print personal ads worked because they wee only found in a local paper and the fact that people had to pay to put in the ad or the person responding to the ad had to write via snail mail and more importantly, give out a contact phone number.

Try getting a phone number via on line dating.

The on line sites are being sued right and left. But something will take their place. I just hope it works like those wonderful PRINT personal ads.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2007 @ 10:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Every Fling.com contact I had emailed me with a link to another site, where they were not listed and there was no further contact.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 26 2007 @ 02:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Fling.com Deserves negative reviews because it FAKES its users. I've noticed serveral peoples pictures with different names in different towns, upto like 4 different towns and screen names. Its like they try and throw in all the hot girls from different areas to area's near you just so you will sign up, when in reality there is probably hardly any REAL users just a bunch of copies.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2007 @ 11:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time

FLING.COM is a FAKE and a BIG SCAM website. Please dont be fooled with the fake attractions on it. All the people I mailed and got reply back are just fake. I wonder if Fling itself hires people to send those false emails, to keep the users remain as a member as long as they can hold them, so that they can charge the automatic renewal payment for next month for a full membership. By the time people realise that its all fake, they will be charged atleast a minimum of one month which is 9.95 plus 34.95.
The replies you get would ask you to send a personal email to their hot mail address and then would ask you to register and find them online on other websites like CYBERAGE.COM. If you register on this site that means you are fooled and made a scapegoat. You wont see them listed at all on those sites.
So the registration fee for this other site would be around 19.95 and then by deafult they will hook you with other 7 day trail version with an automatic annual recharge for 24.95.
So be careful. If you have already been through this then DONOT FORGET TO MAKE SURE YOU CANCEL ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS so that they dont have automatic annual recharges.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2007 @ 10:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time

I agree. I was on Fling and was surprised by the number of responses I got. I got way more than I would have thought. I wondered why all these chicks wanted me to email them at a different email address instead of just chatting on fling. Seemed like an invasion of the anonymity a site like Fling provides. I figured whatever though, the email address I was using wasn't my real one anyway. I got responses from all of those people, and they all wanted me to register on another site that had a registration fee. I was extremely skeptical, because I didn't even want to pay the initial registration fee on Fling. Also it seemed like a market ripe for the picking. Lonely guys looking for sex with no commitments!?! There's plenty of those, I'm sure some of them are dopes. So I went back and looked at the emails, and found two of them that had EXACTLY THE SAME TEXT! At that point I knew it was a scam.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 06 2007 @ 04:45 PM Eastern Standard Time

Fling.com is a total scam. Way too attractive girls for a genuine site and dozens of replies. So try a simple test. When you get a response reply with nonesense. I said "tomatoes and sausages" and of course I got a positive response a day later. Obviously these responses are computer generated. Of course few people will read this reviiew and they will waste their funds. But don't upgrade as who knows what will happen to your credit card information!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 26 2008 @ 03:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time

LMMFAO @ "tomatoes and sausages"!!! I think that is the funniest thing I have ever read in my entire life! Thank you for that!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2007 @ 03:35 PM Eastern Standard Time

I agree with everything said already about fling. Luckily I never sent them any money, I just used a free promo code. I guess I and everyone else should know better though. I mean why would hot chicks need to go online in droves to hook up with no strings attached? Can't believe I wasted any time on that site at all. I doubt more than 2% of the women on there are real.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 28 2007 @ 02:39 PM Eastern Standard Time

Fling.com is a total scam! That was evident after I stupidly tried to meet the first few who aked me to e-mail them in hotmail, asked me to go to their 3rd part site, and dumb me. got scammed. Once, I even got 15 identical e-mails in Fling. I paid for Cyberage and ended up losing about $100 in all. I ended canceling my credit card, basically reporting it as credit card fraud to my bank. I now am wiser and hope anyone else who is out there doesn't fall for it, but like me, there's another sucker born every day. Well, education isn't free, and I paid for mine.
There are a few sites that require you to enter a code in your email, so that auto-responses aren't possible. These are Hornymatches.com and Sexsearch.com. My response rate there is low to my initial contacts, but at least that tells me they're probably more genuine.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2008 @ 10:34 PM Eastern Standard Time

Amen to all-I went through the same shit with Adult Friend Finder. But I'm stupidly naieve sometimes and months later came across Fling.com. Most of the women I liked were understandably from a larger city 45 minutes away so that was no surprise. Then the same emails- we have to meet up this week for drinks and then a hotmail address. Again being stupid I had some pictures of me that a real women wanting sex I felt would respond to. I've been told I'm sexy and well hung by All the women I've been with(Let me finish-not being a prick, just trying to help some fool as slow as me not get ripped) So of course I upgraded and sure enough the responses
got much lower. The ones wanting to meet, after a couple times emailing back and forth a couple of times) I finally just emailed my phone number and said to call me.
And of course I never heard from them. Same with some as above with the big titted webcam girl for 4.99to begin, cyberwhatever that they tell you
is how they keep kids from contacting them(Who same as above verify and charge with your credit card), picture of a porn star, many similar marie claire@hotmail,
and later when it was becoming crystal clear to me(about a week-again save ur smartass comments-I know) I got 3 responses from people I sent interest to on the same night that were very long talking about how busy they've been and giving a homail address THAT WERE ALL IDENTICAL TEXTS. So in process lost an amazing women I'd been with for 2 years.(And for the predictable u deserve it response-I viewed these places as a modern day Plaboy and our happily married dads would damn sure have emailed the playboy page models back then if they could-This place takes advantage of a natural urge a man has and should be shut down, cause let's say a few women
really responded and really wanted to meet then I would known my girl((who I felt took me for granted a liitle and we were slightly different))really didn't appreciate what she had and moved on) I've gone into so much detail for the real person who this could help. Yea theres plenty on here that say alot of the same, but I'm typing this from a motel
room while the life I had was just about to start improving after all the work. I would slit the throat and shit in the mouth of the people that do this, cause if this was around when we were kids there would have been alot of our fathers making the same mistake as us-and our mothers(most)would have dealt with it just as I've been dealt with.
So please just realize life is what you have around you and anything to good to be true, don't give your hard earned money to, cause they'll make another fool of you.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 20 2009 @ 03:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time

I hear you man... I hear you loud and clear. Some of guys are suckers. We love woman, which is natural and not a crime. But sometimes, especially as we get a little older, we seek more, not knowing but hoping it isout there. Yes, maybe we are pathetic, but we are still nice peoplewho are just seeking more in life - it is easy to judge men like this, but they are still good people, but they are at a stage in their life whare they are seeking the attention of seemingly otherwise unattainable women, which is really only a way of seeking approval. I searched many sites, only became a member of one (HornyMatches.com), and I received a lot of winks until I put a photo on my profile and paid a membership. Then I never received another email from anyone who winked me or email me (and I emailed them repeatedly)m except one, which yes, you guessed it, directed me to a hotmail email address. Many of guys may say we are after illicit sex, but often some nice email chat with a real woman wuld be enough to boost our ego, and get us over the issue inour life that resulted in us seeking out these sites.

As another wise person said in an earlier message, we men should spend more time in the real world, not in these fake cyber sites, then we would open our minds and our eyes, see that girl at the supermarket for who she really is, and appreciate that all woman are beautiful if stupid men would open their stupid eyes.

and no, I am not a owman pretending to be a man to write this. I am a man who as a result of the crap I have seen (bullshit photos and profiles on these sex sites) I have opened my eyes to the beauty that exists in all woman. No matter what a woman looks like (and as if looksd tells you much about a person), a smile from any woman is still sweet, and much sweeter than a wink or being ingnored by a fake profile on a sex site.

So now I make eye contact and smile at every woman in the street, at the supermarket, or whereever, and I have found that rarely do I not get a smile in return. That makes me feel great - and I have realised that a smile is about the sexiest, and most tasteful thing I love about woman - of all ages.

No I am not desparate - I have clarity in my life.

My handle is unfortunately still on HornyMatches.com - being "buddy_1970" _ I am one of the real profiles.

If anyone wants to discuss my comments further, you can get me in Australia (if you were wondering) at buddy_1970@live.com.au

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2008 @ 07:14 PM Eastern Standard Time

(Motel idiot from January1)Well since I'm in it for the long haul(3 months)I figured I'd keep in touch every time something happens, and have already fallen behind.This is 2 days after my long winded post on here and I get home to 9 responses on fling.com. 3 different profiles with THE EXACT SAME HOTMAIL ADDRESSES(candycanetreats), and 2 of those WITH THE EXACT SAME 9 LINE MESSAGE. That's not it 2 others had the EXACT SAME HOTMAIL(butterfly_dreams) addresses as each other. Out off the other
4, one was an email address I've seen b4 from someone else, another was from a girl I contacted from a city 6 hours from me in another state( saying she's busy tonight let's meet up tommorow night for drinks), and another was from a girl(foreign looking but it says from a city 45 minutes from here)and talking on IM about meeting
she said she could fly here(I can't make this shit up I wish I knew how to put this up to show), aaaaaaaand the last one(oddly the uggliest of the group)doesn't seem as obviouse as the others but I haven't emailed here yet. I hope this helps someone cause if I didn't think my former girl was better off without my dumbass, I promise to GOD
I would make it my lifes mission to find just one exec. that condones this and do what I stated in my other post. Now I'm along for the ride and hoping to trim there profits
by truthfully reporting the blatant idiocracy of Fling.com

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 08 2008 @ 07:43 PM Eastern Standard Time

Read and understand your point of view possibly with age gap, etc. But what I have found, FLING, and other "quick date" sites are flat out scams. There are other review dating site links that stress this. You have sites with the same pictures, responses to e-mails, phish information addresses, etc. that goes with the territory. But this is the most disturbing what I found. If you DO find that "match" or "no strings attached", beware, you have problems coming. And it has come to my attention from these simple 9.99 to 14.95 a months sites, the person is a billionaire from folks seeking anything from friendship to easy sex. My advice is to advoid ALL supposed dating sites. You don't know these people. You risk STD's. And you are making some person(s) richer while you sit behind a PC screen wasting your money. When I have time, I will do investigative work on how the Attorney Generals view this internet highway robbery. Stayed tuned...........

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2008 @ 04:02 AM Eastern Standard Time

Get away with getting peoples money? I notice fling.com right away had no htts//<<S for security when ur gonna pay with a credit card..RED FLAGS all over. I'll never give them jack diddy! Thanx 4 posting!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2008 @ 07:34 PM Eastern Standard Time

I use fling.com and I paid for gold membership - its a complete waste of money. Most women on there are prostitutes or escorts. When you contact them - their response is always the same - to email them in their "private" email address!! and then they bombard you with spam once you have emailed them on their private email address.

COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2008 @ 04:59 PM Eastern Standard Time

There are some really bad reviews of Fling.com on this website - 3 pages of bad reviews!!!
http://www.no1reviews.com/AdultDating/Fling.html

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2008 @ 04:24 PM Eastern Standard Time

Fling.com is nothing but a bunch of strippers who want you to go to their webpage and masturbate to them.



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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2008 @ 09:49 AM Eastern Standard Time

I never started a subscription to fling because on the first day I got the feeling that some of the profiles might be fake. I am a lesbian looking for women, and every time I signed on I'd get these odd messages. One girl "wrote" to me, and her handle was something lame like "takesithard", which seemed odd for a woman seeking women. I immediately started googling the site for scam warnings and a lot of sites like this popped up with other people saying pretty much the same thing. That's not to say that two real people can't find each other on the site, but how do you know who's real until you pay? Fortunately I didn't. So go with your gut if something doesn't feel right.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 29 2008 @ 01:11 PM Eastern Standard Time

Another vote for Fling.com being a big scam site. Everything I've read on this page is true and I've experienced.

DO NOT USE IT.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 06 2008 @ 12:35 PM Eastern Standard Time

I recently was out on fling.com and AmateurMatch.com and found that they are both fake date sites. There are even more I understand and after a little research and googling it seems that class action suits for even match.com and so called "traditional" on line dating sites ae being sued for the same fraudulent practices.

After one woman wanted my phone number over and over, she was soliciting for paid phone sex, I told her I knew the truth about the site. She spilled her guts to me. There are literally no real women on the site. Less than 1/2 of 1% are real. She admitted to me after crying for 15 minutes on the phone that the company pays her to put up 200 new profiles a day, that she admitted she stole from real dating sites with photos and all. She was told to steal from the real sites that the company paid for to get full access, especially those who had their photos taken by a photographers who shoot photos of women for improved online dating results. That is why so many of the the photos look like they are shot by the same photographer.

It is time to spread the word and realize in our moment of sexual want and weakness, it is not just the Nigerian scammers that are trying to steal from us, it is the so-called real date sites that are stealing and need to be stopped.

My advice to stop this is, join for free as a woman on the sites (they let you email for free, unlike the guys who have to pay) and post a photo that says "This Site is a Scam" over a very pretty woman of choice, and post your profile that says, this site is a scam, and how they scammed you. Then go online with the site and add every guy you can as a buddy. The will read and they will leave and we need to blog this and tell the guys of the world, they are being scammed!

Spread the word now!

Regards, HRH1 (on Amateurmatch.com) spreading the word!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 08:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time

'm a real female and posted a profile on fling.com. After a few days I was no longer able to log onto the site. I kept getting a log on notice telling me my screen name/password didn't match their system. I created another profile, after I logged on I searched out my old profile. Every thing was removed (age, race, my personal write up, my pictures) and it said my profile was disabled for going against their terms of service.
I wrote to fling.com customer service asking them what I did wrong. The reply I received said,

Dear Member,

We apologize you are having trouble logging into your account. We have had some Customers recently report trouble accessing the site.

I will forward your account to our technical group and you will receive an email update within 48 to 72 hours. Once again, we apologize for the inconvenience.

Fling.com Customer Support Team

Agent # 24

We're here to help!

www.gpnethelp.com


Did I ever receive an email update? NO! and I still can not log into that account

It was no big deal, I'm a female and all I need is another email address and create a new profile.
The next day the profile I used to check my old profile was removed. I created another profile.
24 hours later that profile was removed.
It seems like my REAL profiles get deleted after 24 hours. I appears to me that fling.com doesn't want a REAL female to log onto their site. The one thing I have not done and I have thought about doing is grabbing some "fake" photos and posting them.

The interesting part of this story...
I was watching the local news one night. There was a crime stoppers story about a woman who's credit card information was being used by people who had made charges on fling.com. She claimed to have never used the site but did have a profile on one of fling.com sister sites. ( A less sexually explicit site). Somehow these people got her credit card information and used it for fling.com.
I never heard of fling and have had a profile on adult friend finder in the past so curiosity got the better of me to check out fling.com.
The little time I had on fling.com and the emails I received during that time did show me that the type of person I would meet offline wouldn't be on that site but it is a shame that sites like this are out there scamming people.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 13 2009 @ 04:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Thanks for everyone's posts. It looks like fling.com is looking for pretty people. If someone is not pretty enough, their profile is deleted. I've almost signed on to 'fling' this morning but after reading the horror stories...I'll have to think about it. I'm just a dumb guy looking for some action. Some 25-year old gal just emailed me from 'fling' begging me to add myself onto her 'friend's list'. There are so many free dating websites: someone mentioned craig's list, there are also: datehookup, plentyoffish, connectingsingles and christiaNet. Don't pay any money for dating: they're all scams including christian cafe. If a woman says she knows God, she's lying...move on.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 14 2008 @ 06:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time

http://www.online4love.com/ is the primary way my husband and I meet likeminded "friends with benefits." There's no uncomfortable wondering if you ought to approach someone, you already know upfront when you meet them, and it is definitely worth the extra cost of becoming silver/gold imo, so you can exchange notes or pics before meeting and make sure its a good fit.

My hubby is str8 and I am bi and we have had no problem finding partners on online4love.com. We've had fun sex with lots of single men, single women and full swap couples that we met on O4L. And yes, I'm real, and no, I don't work for O4L or think they're perfect (they can be pricey and they goober up email sometimes,) but I think they're the best thing going by far for meeting other people who just want to have sex without strings!

For those complaining about the cost—ok, I agree, but I think you get what you pay for. I pretty much don't write people unless I can see what they look like and all, not because I'm shallow or a snob but because I want to know THEY'RE for real too and don't trust blank profiles...can you blame me? Also, it can be risky to contact people to swing with! Are they my boss? My brother? Twice my age? You get my drift. I’d like to know who I’m initiating a conversation with! The extra cost put into a good profile helps narrow down those you want to meet. How long do you pause on a profile that does not show a picture? (Faces can always be “smudged� until you know each other better to avoid embarrassing compromises.) And, although we are admittedly "just after recreational sex", part of having fun is that we have to LIKE our bedpartners too, so we look for things like a sense of humor and easygoing fun nature and a “click�. (And more expensive memberships include more matching criteria and stuff, too to help the odds of getting that “click� without too much searching.) So I guess I'm saying that if you don't cough up the extra cash for a full membership, don't expect overwhelming responses. There are lots of people who post their pictures and info, so when looking for people it's easy to breeze by the ones that don't. We may miss out on meeting some great people because of it...but we meet lots of great people too.

I agree there’s a high ratio of men to women, but I don’t know why that surprises anyone. Seems expected to me—although many women love sex, there do seem to be a lot more guys that are ok with swinging or casual sex than girls, for whatever reasons, and that’s not specific to O4L.

I definitely vote that it is worth the time and the money! We've had many a fun night of frolic thanks to connections we made on O4L. :)

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 24 2008 @ 02:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time

It is funny that you posted this at another site. Makes you kind of wonder if you too are not trying to scam people. Though I am not saying you are it is just fishy that posted this at another site. Here is the site for reference for everyone else. http://keylogger-reviews.blogspot.com/2007/05/dating-sites-scams.html if you look at the first comment below you will see that this person goes by stargazincdesign

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 28 2009 @ 10:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time

You are right man, the lady above who is promoting O4L is another scammer. I looked up O4L and it looks exactly like any other scamy website. I saw people have their real names with their naked pics on that site - now that is definitely fishy.
-Madhu

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 17 2008 @ 03:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Thanks for the heads up. I responded to an ad on craigslist that sounded too good to be true, not expecting a response. The reply came stating she was actually an escort staying in my town for 3 days and since someone else had paid for her, but he was going to be in business meetings most of the time, she was willing to give me a 45 minute freebie session if I would write a review for her before I left. All I had to do was message her through fling.com. Of course to get to where I could do that would require a paid account. The teaser pic was incredible hot. Thats when I googled fling.com scam and found this. This is one dude who won't be subscribing. I suspect she (or he) gets a percentage of anyone's account fee if they sign up.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 29 2008 @ 10:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time

eharmony is a complete ripoff they will not refund money they will not honor there special rates and charge your card without authorization
they do not match you on whats advertised as compatibilitys they just send random unactive members its is without a better word for it a absolute fraud .
complete false advertising and complete bulls--t dont be fooled they are a scam and they do there best to not return emails about customer concers or financial questions they just keep charging and i had to cancel my credit card to be rid of them this was a complete mistake and i hope others dont follow
BE WARNED STAY AWAY FROM EHARMONY !

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 01 2008 @ 01:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Haven't tried Fling but Amatuermatch is horrible with all the messages I get everyday from beautiful women supposedly in my area, i don't even have a pic. posted and I get women wanting to meet me so, I thought is was awesome and planned to become a paying member until I researched and found bad reviews from guys. I went on and created a married profile and was instantly getting proposal from some of the same girls of my single profile. Guys beware this site, all they want is your money.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 01 2008 @ 01:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time

All these sites that offer quick hook ups with girls are scams because they usually require money and everyone knows that us guys are suckers and an easy target for sex with women. Hey, i almost signed up to ones of these scams but after these reviews, i am ever looking at these sites again. Don't let these assholes scam you guys, goes to show you that women also think of us as easy prey.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 08 2008 @ 05:38 PM Eastern Standard Time

Not just Fling, Bangmatch, AmatuerMatch, all of these sites are 100% BULL****!!! Total ripoffs - how convenient that the women who reply all are from other distant countries, or send one or two messages then fall silent, or want you to send them detailed info before they will reply with anything, then are suddenly not interested. NEVER AGAIN, don't waste your $$$$

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 05:36 PM Eastern Standard Time

I have never paid for membership of a dating site and never will. They are all scam sites and fronts for Phising. True I used Yahoo personals back in the day and did get laid eventually several times, and it was totally free. Those were the good old days, now every single one of the millions of sites flashing gorgeous nude women want to grab your credit card details, that should send danger signals to any right thinking fellow.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 25 2008 @ 05:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Maybe people have unrealistic expectations. Online dating can be rewarding for people who meet their soul mate online but it takes work and time to meet people and getting to know somebody is not a fast process. There is not always a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for everybody. Love is a game of chance, being on dating sites opens up opportunities and chances but it does not offer any guarantee. Be realistic and decide if you are really doing yourself a favor by hoping the ideal person will drop you an email. Try getting to know girls for friendships and not advertising yourself as looking only for long term relationship with every girl who has sent you a message.

-Geoff (www.PalFactor.com)

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 04 2008 @ 02:58 AM Eastern Standard Time

I found this when checking for Fling.com scams. http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/Free-membership-to-FLINGCOM-focus-group/san-francisco-ca/99ce7997-99b0-40df-b97c-7c7da328fe54

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 18 2008 @ 01:12 PM Eastern Standard Time

i tried the trial membership and only messaged the ugly chicks

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Authored by: KarinaCutiexo on Thursday, January 15 2009 @ 12:36 PM Eastern Standard Time

heyy! well i agree with this topic, there are waaay more negative reviews than positive when it comes to dating sites. i just think that these people must be paid to write horrible comments about other dating sites, so that their own site looks better. Its all b.s. if you ask me. ALL dating sites are the same and people join them for all the same reasons. you will find scammers, fake people and just plain freaks all over the web. you cant just tell someone not to go to a certain site because you had a bad experience thats crazy. i joined a few dating sites recently and i find that all of them are all pretty good. some you have to pay for, some not. but the one's you pay for always have more to offer. i personally like going to friendjungle because i met a really hot guy in my town LOLLL. i also think that if youre stupid enough to give out your personal information like a credit card to someone on the internet, you shouldnt be using the internet period! people should just stop being biased idiots and try new sites. ps. i tried eharmony and it sucked! LOLL j/k

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 01 2009 @ 11:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Fling.com is definitely a scam. I don't mean that paid scammers use the site, I mean that the site itself is scam:
- unlike legitimate adult sites, free memberships are entirely useless
- their support system contradicts the reality of the site, in other words, the site is essentially a disguise to harvest your credit card information
- it is impossible to cancel a membership
- the website is not registered in the U.S., as the site pretends to be, but rather in St. Kitts & Nevis

Case closed. It's a scam.

AdultFriendFinder, and sister sites, on the other hand, I have used, and have had good experiences. Note that AFF allows "free" members to do certain things (not much, but a little), including a 'close membership' option, and they are registered in California. Of course there are small-time scammers using the site to trick people, but the site itself is legit.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 03:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time

the site is not legit....they have fake profiles and automated bot responses

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 29 2009 @ 09:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time

I agree that AFF is a scam. Before I became a Gold member I received several winks and emails. After I became a Gold member (so I could reply), I got no winks or emails and even the replies I made to the emails I had received were never answered.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 13 2009 @ 04:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Hilarious. Yeah! I was a gold member of Adult Friend Finder. The only woman who contacted me was a drug addict. I met her in her hometown. She had six kids and those extra belly folds: I'm not sure what you call that. LOL. Anyway, after the first date, that was the end of it. But at least I met someone: LOL.

American women are strange. It seems that they want the bank when all you have is a quarter in your pocket: one quarter and not the roll and no I'm not happy to see you. European women dress nice, smell nice and have great attitudes. I met one on ChristiaNet. I'm on about six other free dating sites with some being listed in my previous post above: 2009.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 29 2009 @ 07:20 PM Eastern Standard Time

I have been on Fling for close to 2 years now and have only good things to say. It is up to you to form friendships in this virtual medium, and it is also best to not expect that women will meet you for sex that readily (at least the more serious women like myself) We are there to enjoy some humour and banter in the video chat rooms, from some clean exhibitionism and voyeurism to just plain innocent fun. Sure, some meet in person but my guess is that the majoroty don't. Again, if you are careful about what you do and who you correspond with, you can come across the more decent people. Remember that you will NEVER form closeness without effort, with me it took time to feel close to the few people I now share with. Many have my number and we talk regularly. I am not one that will meet men for sex, but we still have fun as friends together and it is a social network for people that look for simple pleasures. For those that want more,. they wok the chat rooms first, get to know people and some have indeed met up with others and formed either sexual or romantic relationships

In the end, all sites can be scams. It is up to us to sort through and find what suits us, rather than find blame all the time:) I am glad I found fling.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 10 2009 @ 01:16 AM Eastern Standard Time

Almost every dating site out there is a scam. I have tried about ten and all were fake. Yes, there may be some real people on the sites, but if 90 percent are fake and you have to pay to talk to people, that's just no good. In addition, there are many easy ways to find out if a site is fake. You can send out 20 or so requests and you will get responses from different people that are worded EXACTLY the same. It's a miracle. Or you can use various sites to trace the IP and see if they are located where they claim (usually not, sometimes in a different country all together). You can do a photo search and find out the profile pictures are everywhere including other dating sites with different information and/or names! Also, when the person you contact wants personal information or wants you to contact them at a different site, somethings wrong. Going on further, when profile pictures are of porn stars that live in small rundown towns, something, again may be wrong. I am saying that almost all dating sites are scams. I would suggest every single one is a scam but I do not have sufficient evidence to make a statement like that. Fling is a scam for sure, which is what most people have stated in this thread. Also, it is called FLING.COM, if you sign up for a site with a name like that with pornographic photos of people everywhere to chat and make friends and not to have sex with people (which is very unlikely to happen anyway), you are in the wrong place! If anyone says that dating sites are not a scam, they probably work for them. Of course, its possible they have not tried the aforementioned and are making statements without doing any research what-so-ever, which is called ignorance.

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