online dating scams
Online dating has resulted in many happy relationships out here in the real world, but also provides a unique opportunity for different kinds of scammers to quickly gain your confidence and manipulate your emotions in order to get past your normal scam-detecting defenses. So how do you protect yourself?
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scams
A reader received a weird message from a fellow
Match.com member last night—it was a fairly transparent attempt by someone to establish contact with her via a false identity.
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lawsuits
The
Daily News says that one Brooklyn man is fed up with writing emails to potential dates on
Match.com and never getting a response. It's not that he has a "bad personality" — it's that the profiles are of people who have canceled.
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eharmony
Have your friends been laid off recently? Of course they have, almost nobody has a job anymore! Complaining about society's newfound poverty, however, is apparently a violation of eHarmony's terms of service, as the East Village Idiot recently discovered.
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dating
Reader Brandon heard the "Events and Adventures" club for
singles ad on the radio and decided to check 'em out. What did he find? They wouldn't tell him their fee upfront and online, he found stories that might hint at why, tales of exorbitant upfront fees, worthless service, and instead of letting you cancel, they send you to collections...
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trust
eHarmony won't let Morgan's mom join until she proves that she's really divorced. She tried to join last year, but was rejected because she was only separated for seven years, and not divorced. Now that her divorce is final, she wants to register without spending another hour filling out eHarmony's "scientifically proven" matching questionnaire.
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samelane
Bar scene too irritating? Internet
dating not bringing you the social life you wanted? Prefer to drive around town with the top down, blowing kisses, hoping to meet Mr. or Ms. Right?
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airtroductions
Yesterday's foiled terrorist plot to blow up nine jets led to some truly astonishing security measures. With those precautions come larger questions: is it more important to keep 100% of the people 100% safe 100% of the time by forcing them to give up their comforts, their smallest, most casual freedoms? Or is it worth the occasional atrocity to not live in a culture of fear — the terrorists only real victory?
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dating
Orthodox, Hassidic O.G. oi seeks Jewish Princess for love, romance, sexy divisions leading to creepy stalking and court summons over first date bill.
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readers
We've
ragged on E-Harmony, the online dating service accused of having a vaguely creepy religious aura, and several months ago, we were plucking e-Harmony's harp pretty hard.
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e-harmony
Last month we
wrote about a lady who was upset with e-harmony.com, an online matchmaking service. L.D. spent over an hour filling out the in-depth personality profile, only to be told at the end that e-harmony doesn't let people who are legally separated to use its service.
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dating
Whether you're a bargain dating service buff or a connoisseur of the
high-class matchmakers, it's always optimal to do some research on your potential partner purchases. Especially in online dating, where descriptors like 'loves movies' means 'can't hold a conversation' and 'loves seafood' means 'nice body but cephalopod mouth parts, including beak and tentacles.'
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