Match.com
Used fake profile to lure me into renewing my expired account

I cancelled my subscription and wrote the reason why in the comments section. The next morning I received an email from what appeared to be the "perfect" guy who met all the criteria I had set up in my profile, who just happened to be looking for someone just like me, and just happened to be pretty good looking... The type of guy I never had writing to me when I was an active member. I remember thinking it was very odd that someone could write me when my account was expired.

How could it still be available for public viewing and people could still email me? My gut said something wasn't right. You can email someone on match.com from your home email address, (just send it to the person's profile name with "@talkmatch.com."). I tried emailing myself that way and it worked. I emailed the guy twice saying I was no longer on match, but he could email to my home account. He didn't write back. It was nawing at me... What if he didn't get it? What if I lost out on the opportunity on what seemed like a great guy?

So... I renewed my membership, emailed the guy through the match website, and lo and behold he writes me back! We wrote back and forth several times, having very normal conversation, and then I never heard from him again. Again my gut was telling me something just wasn't right. It bothered me for days. I just couldn't imagine why he stopped writing so suddenly. Then, I came up with more proof the profile was a fake... I can pull up the profile by putting his name in the search box, but I can't pull it up if I do a search for a guy with all his criteria (i.E. I put in his age, race, religion, body type, etc). Clearly it was rigged to not come up in a search, but if you look him up (because he wrote you), it comes up.

Ann
San Francisco, California
U.S.A.

Company: Match.com
Country: USA
Site: www.match.com

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