So many times I've read on various dating-site forums how important it is to check a girl's name, profile, and part of her introductory letter; and if she replies also her e-mail address and telephone number etc. by using a search engine such as Google. It can reveal some more information about her, and if she is found on a site that lists suspected or known scammers, then you have a reason to be suspicious. No need to add that ALL dating-sites have people who create fake profiles, and surely everyone occasionally receives them.
I use sites like Fiance.com because I prefer to communicate with a woman who has her own private e-mail address ('independent'), and am not interested in women who use agencies ('verified'), simply because I don't trust agencies at all. There are honest independent women here, which I know because I have been satisfactorily communicating with two for several months. Here, like other sites, I have also been contacted by 'women' with suspicious profiles (banal descriptions, with unrealistic age gaps, too good photos etc. and accompanied with an insincere letter), which, more importantly, are IDENTICAL to some other profiles on the Internet. Very often their profile will have been removed promptly, sometimes even before I log-in after receiving an e-mailed notification of the new letter. Almost always they are from women whose new profiles I had recently viewed, in their 20s/early 30s, and are from those who are independent. Also, there is usually a request for my e-mail address, but not mentioning their's. Some agencies copy other's profiles too, although probably done for different reasons (laziness?) as I sometimes encountered this dubious discrepancy when I was on a pay-per-letter site (Anastasiadate.com), but one difference being that agencies NEVER ask for an e-mail address. I even queried this with Anastasia's Customer Services, giving several examples during just one week of introductory letters - whose profiles I Googled. They replied: "Some new members do not know what to write about in their profiles. They read the profiles of other ladies on our website and copy them. As the operators [local agency employees] do not know it, they activate the profile, and we [anastasiadate.com] are not able to read all 15,000 profiles to check if there is some copying." But this is guff. If I can easily check, then I'm sure they can. And the girls on that site never write their own profiles anyway. The agencies do it, which explains precisely why all the profiles say virtually the same thing, and written in the same trite, flowery manner.
If I am interested in a woman, I run parts of her profile and introductory letter through Google in inverted commas. Sometimes I find the profile is identical to other women's (of which, incidentally, have always been from USA or Ukraine). Out of curiosity, and attraction, I decided to reply to one recently, saying that I was very interested, and politely enquired why her profile and even her introductory letter, was word-identical to four other people's profiles. She replied saying only: "Hello. You may give me your e-mail address". I had hoped for some sort of explanation or comment, so I did not write back, but still remain a little tempted to 'see what will happen'. The other suspicious people who contacted me disappeared almost immediately, but the girl I replied to, and three other nice-looking similar women, still remain here, since March.
So WHY do some people with private e-mail addresses do this, and what is it to be gained for them? Sincere or fraudulent, how difficult is it for them to write their OWN self-description, as surely they realise it's easy for the man to check them? Is it normal practise, or am I being too cautious, as after all, someone has to be the original writer of the profile, and maybe the others I later found, are really the copies?
Here are some facts!! facebook has about 50,000,000 fake profiles, Vkontacte has about 20,000 fake profiles every mainstream dating site has fake profiles ! heck!! even in your local town you will find fakes!
If you cannot spot a fake , then my best advise is to give up your search and find someone a bit closer to home, will save you alot of heartache and money mate)))
I can tell you for sure we dont not want to waste time listening to guys sob stories, were bored with moaners and groaners))
teddy boy - you sure get around...
don't not - double negative. does that mean you do or you don't want to waste time listening to the moaners and groaners? if not for them the forum would shrink to nothing. or perhaps maybe it would grow since others may actually discuss something relative to dating, meeting or getting advice on related subjects. it's just like the nightly news - all gloom and doom - it's what sells for many.