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QuietDragon -> Anomalies in another adult matchmaking site... (5/28/2006 2:20:03 PM)
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Hi everybody,
Initially when I came across the following, I thought I ought to warn everybody on collarme about it, but then I thought that in doing so I would be exposing myself and/or collarme to undue legel scrutiny, so instead I shall not mention names, and I shall simly explain what I have noticed and let readers draw their own conclusions.
This particular adult matchmating site is heavily advertised on several of the web pages within collarme. When I joined as a "free member" I understood that I could receive e-mails, but not respond unless I paid up to become a "premium member" - the same as many other matchmaking sites.
I filled in my profile, added details in the various extras boxes, and posed a photograph. I didn't expect to receive any e-mails, but hey-ho, anything is worth a chance.
Almost immediately I started receiving e-mails, and I have received 35 or so in the past three weeks. This is more e-mails than I have ever received from any other site, EVER!
When I looked at my account's stats page, it told me that I had been sent 1 e-mail in May 2006.
The profiles attached to these e-mails always had a photo of a fairly attractive woman (but not the same woman).
Sometimes the ethnicity of the woman in the photograph was not the same as the ethnicity listed in the profile.
The photos were always semi-professionally taken; they were never fuzzy webcam captures, dodgy scans or pictures taken from a mobile phone.
The profiles always had a fairly well-written intro/bio, but never ever had any of the extra bio information filled in.
The writing style of the intro/bio was often noticeably similar, almost as if the same person had written many of them, or they had been written to some kind of formula.
Many of the profiles contained the \ character immediately before an apostrophe ('), something that happens when text data is transfered between systems, where the apostrophe is, perhaps, being converted from a correct inverted comma character.
In over half of the cases, the profile had been created in the 24 hours before I received the e-mail.
In all of the other cases, the profile had been created in 2005.
Never, not ONCE, in any of the introductory e-mails, did I get any hint that the writer had even read my profile.
I'm cancelling my profile with this site. I'll leave everybody else to draw their own conclusions.
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