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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultfriendfinder

Criticism

AFF has been frequently criticized as a popular target for phishing attempts and other online scams. Such schemes work by creating fake profiles with attractive female photos, and then using these accounts to attract visitors to pornography websites or to initiate scams such as the Advance fee fraud (AFF scam).

AFF, along with most major dating sites, employ an 'abuse team' as an extension of its customer service team, to deal with spammers, scammers, the obscene and the obnoxious.

It has been claimed that AFF consistently uses controversial advertising methods such as spam and spyware.

The most recent criticism to be experienced by the adult meeting website has to do with the use of "decoys". There are several claims that the people in the chat rooms are not genuine people, that they are "plants" or "decoys", the main goal is to start a continuous conversation with their mark. These marks are usually men or women who have not purchased complete memberships and in doing so are not able to access the full features of the website. The goal of the decoy is to convince these marks to purchase the full membership. Which would thus allow the mark full access to all of the sites features, such as the most important, email. Which is necessary to continue contact with the decoy who they believe to be an actual AFF member. The benefit to AFF, more pricey memberships are purchased and members remain on the site far longer than those with limited memberships.

There is even a criticism by paying members. Gold members are routinely assaulted with fake communications, requesting e-mail communications and asking to pay for an account on another website. Gold members have complained that 4 out of 5 communications are totally false.

nice read
i guess i missed that when i was on wikipedia

my question is what are the other online scams....??? ? ? ? ?? ??? ??

i guess it is very bad publicity for aff...

they probably bought the url www.wikipedia.com from zango to try to cover up their shit...

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Fake profiles? :1orglaugh

Same chick, six states, different names ....... is this done by management or who?

http://www.imagefilez.com/out.php/i19597_altfake.jpg

both domains are avalible..

affsucks.com
adultfriendfindersucks.com

Every dating and cams site use fake profiles. I see them on ifriends, cams, webcams.com and match whenever im getting pics and shit to use. Its just part of it and isnt really a big deal...

I love when what ever country I am that Tawnee Stone seems to be there also - I cannot believe my luck :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

What else is new? Are you all noobs?

actually theres a few interesting tidbits in there i never knew. about the upsells to other websites by fake members

New for me too

Pretty much anyone can write a wikipedia article. Not saying that some or all of isn't true. I have no idea.

damn chomie

Gotta love it. The whole world is waking up and smelling the bad odor rising up from west.

its hard to tell the truth

Just the start. They need to clean up their shit before more people drop them. How many whales can they possibly have? A few leave and its bad for them.

that chick is just a slut and is trying to get as much pipeage as possible

haha gotta love that

this is probably members trying to spam other members with sites, not management.

Damn that's bad press

shotgun!!!!!!!

Those might not be upsells, but rather an attempt to "poach" members. I'm involved in the operation of a competing dating site and we routinely have other dating sites (or affiliates of other dating sites) trying to poach our members.

We're also infested with cam girls trying to sell their services and Russian and Nigerian "girls" looking for suckers to scam. We catch most of these scumbags before they have a chance to do too much damage, but fair number do get through.

I don't know the details of how Various operates, but I have to assume they have the same sort of predators targetting their members that are targetting ours.

very bad press indeed

What amazes me is there aren't more AFF reps in here trying to diffuse some of this bad press. At least come in and bullshit us guys. Make an effort.

that is even more exposure for them....

Someone call the Daruma Lama ??

:thumbsup :thumbsup this is also true

yo yo

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