Comments on: Top 10 Russian Brides opening lines

By: meir

meir — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:38:47 +0000

I’m curious if Yahoo is going to feature any of these Russian girls in their “We don’t use models” photo shoot? They are pretty nice looking…What do you think Dave?

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:40:54 +0000

…reduce the number of active profiles by 40% or more…

That is probably only true for webdate.com Just do a search on nigeria, lagos state, lagos city. You get back 600 profiles from models hahaha.

Match.com seems to be hiring a lot of people for scam detection.

http://match.isg2.com/

For both paid and free sites 5-8% of all signups are scammers or escorts. Paid sites have a lot harder time detecting them, because the ROI is so good a lot of scammers pay for membership.

http://www.womenrussia.com/scammers_caught.htm

“According to Chelyabinsk police, the couple scammed more than 1,500 men and extorted more than 1,5 million US Dollars from them, in the period of 2000-2002″

Given that match.com signs up 60,000 profiles a day that works out to about 3,000 scammers signing up per day.

I can see a great new slogan for yahoo. “You have a better chance of being conned then you do of getting married.”

By: Edward Orysiek

Edward Orysiek — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:17:24 +0000

Very timely thread Dave.

I’ve had a real problem with Russian, Ukrainian and Nigerians scamming my members and using stolen credit cards. I have started posting the scammers on my blog linked from my site. If they are persistent in creating a new profile, I will configure their profile so when they send their scam emails their emails are deleted from the system before delivered to a member’s email box. This keeps the scammers busy sending emails into a blackhole.

Disclaimer: A browse of my site will show that I still have work to do in eliminating the older profiles.

I’ve contacted an identity verification service linked from this site to see if they can assist me as well. I’ll report my findings here.

Edward