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Ashley Madison.com a Complete Scam?

Ashley Madison a Scam?

Dating Help 101.com has recieved numerous complaints about the Ashley Madison Agency, claiming the site is nothing more than an elaborate scam to take your money and leave you scratching your head.

Like the article written about the allegded SexSearch.com scam, it appears that the Ashley Madison Agency is also using Date Bait to lure in paying clients.  The stories are usually all the same:

1.  You sign up for a ”free” account on Ashley Madison Agency

2. Your profile, no matter how incomplete, recieves e-mails from interested girls in your area.

3. Problem is, these messages are collect messages.   Like making a collect call on the phone, a collect message is sent to you free by the writter, but to view these messages, you the reader must pay.

4. You pay to read the message, or upgrade to a full membership to read all messages.  You reply to the message from the interested woman, and Never hear back.

5. You have paid good money to reply to what seems like an automated date bait message.

 More over, other subscribers have noticed a severe lack of other “paying members” on the site.  Almost all of the female profiles are “free trials”, and very few real paying members. 

But the site may not be all doom and gloom.  A possible explanation for the common experience on the site may be no different than trying to pick up the only girl in a bar full of guys.  A website like Ashley Madison or Sexsearch has a ratio of 90% males to 10% women.  As you walk in, your profile is fresh and new, and you might get looked at as you walk in the door.  But once you try a cheeseball pickup line (like every other guy has done), she is no longer interested.

One woman told Dating Help 101.com that her in box had hundreds on e-mails from guys looking for a quick hookup.  99% of them didn’t know how to talk to her in an e-mail and just demand what they wanted.  She never replied to them, and continued looking through the 100’s of other emails.  She wouldn’t hook up with a guy for a one night stand, instead she was bored in life and wanted to meet someone, with the possibility of sex later on.   If you want to suceed on a site like Ashley Madison, write your e-mails to appeal to this side of her… not a one night stand.

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There are currently 2 responses to “Ashley Madison.com a Complete Scam?”

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  1. 1 On February 21st, 2010, skynwt446 said:

    It is most definitely a scam… employees pose as members. They track your activity and purposely “bait” you when they think you are ready to spend $$. DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON AM - IT IS A RIPOFF.

  2. 2 On July 8th, 2010, Eliahu A. Sinaiko, PhD. said:

    I heard about Ashley Madison on some TV news program concerned about married men and women having affairs. Sounded too good to be true. So after a bit of checking on their site, I bought a credit package and sent out a couple IMs.

    Almost immediately I received a collect message from “NibblyNeck” living in Pennsylvania. “So how long have you been here? Met any interesting people?” I sent her a reply which I had to split into two messages even though it was under the maximum size limit. I received no reply back which was odd since I am a very good and romantic writer.

    A few days later I received another collect message from “Chemistry_1? living in Canada. This message also said “So how long have you been here? Met any interesting people?”

    Now tell me, what are the odds of two women, living more than a 1000 miles apart, sending exactly the same message. They were of course fake, probably computer generated by AM in order to solicit charges to my account. For these two fake messages that they sent, their charges totaled about $50!

    Complaints to AM produced evasive answers, none of which addressed the fakery that I accused them of. Now they have sent me a customer support phone number. I’ll call, but I don’t expect much from them. I disputed the charge on my credit card and will probably get the money back. I’ll let you know what happens.

    By the way, read their Terms and Conditions. This paragraph is very revealing, but you probably would never see it buried in all the fine print:

    “E. Market Research

    From time to time the Service may include, offer, initiate or send winks, virtual gifts, collect messages instant chat and/or replies from individuals or programs (”Market Research”) for market research and/or customer experience and/or quality control and/or compliance purposes. Market Research information is used to provide analysis, feedback, trends, patterns, social commentary and information in the aggregate and aides in the process of monitoring our system for compliance with our operating standards. Market Research will NOT be conspicuously identified. We do not guarantee the authenticity of any member using our site. Any interaction or communication with Market Research is independent of, and separate from, our general database of Member’s seeking personal or physical or other kinds of encounters or introductions. You accept and acknowledge that any written statements, mail messages or instant messages made by Market Research are provided for “entertainment” purposes that serve to enhance the user’s personal online experience.”

    It seems that they are trying to protect themselves from lawsuits regarding their fraud!

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