POF : Scammer forget to complete his fake profile
Scammer forget to complete his fake profile
By. POFthrowaway2020
Scammer forget to complete his fake profile
By. POFthrowaway2020
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so put elements of couch potato in my profile to appear less intimidating. got it….. *takes notes*
I’ve only been on this app a week and the fake profiles and scammers are plentiful. This one forgot to fill out the about me and left something from his boss(?) , co-conspirator(?). What’s interesting to me is this is written in proper English while all the scammers I’ve chatted with struggle with the language. To me that says the scamming happening is probably a large coordinated effort. It even mentions how to lure in users with « low self esteem ».
Is there really nothing POF can do about these scams? I hate to think they condone them or worse are behind the scambots. I keep reporting them and they keep popping up.
I routinely see fake profiles. Things like the written description doesn’t match the photo. They change the state to match my state but continue to use the same town name. That town doesn’t exist. Being older, they will change the age to 60 plus but continue to use a photo of a 20 or 30 something. So much low effort.
haha this person has no faith in the guys on pof
Thanks for posting this. It reveals what I have long suspected. Many of the POF scammers who post profiles for women probably are men posing as women. So, guys who get into message exchanges with the scammers fall for a triple deception. First, they think the contact is someone who really may want to date. Second, they think the pics and the profile specs are real. And finally, they think they are messaging a woman. Even when someone gets suspicious and sends a critical message to the scammer, they still might not realize that the scammer is a man.
POF does have some scammer countermeasures. I know, because I sometimes get messages from scammers that I ignore and they disappear from my POF inbox in less than 24 hours. I assume that POF has discovered the scammer and deleted their presence from POF. I guess it’s just a complex real world problem, too complex to resolve completely. So, maybe we shouldn’t blame the site, but blame the kind of people who scam.
I think some online dating sites do create fake profiles and hire people to send fake contact messages. It seems so obvious on some sites, especially when the only way you can interact requires paying a sign up fee. Those fake first contact messages lure you into paying the sign up fee, so that you can reply. POF does have an upgrade fee, but you can reply to messages without upgrading. So, I doubt that POF is behind the scammers. Also, some newer online sites may create fake profiles just to prime the pump to get the site started. POF has been around for a long time. They don’t need to do anything like that.
If you hang around on the app long enough, you can begin to detect scammers. Just keep your guard up. POF does have plenty of real people wanting to date.