TW K.

I had previously tried out the SCAM site Smartdate.com (which I heard about in a FACEBOOK AD) and had just realized it was a total scam when I clicked on the SENIORpeoplemeet.com ad, also on FACEBOOK. Seniorpeoplemeet.com is even worse than smartdate.com, if that's possible. They advertise as 'free' initially but you can only put up your photo free, you cannot receive any messages without signing up for their automated monthly program - which I didn't do. (How stupid do I look?) Anyway, I went to the trouble of entering some basic information - without even a photo! - and got a message from someone. That seemed strange to me as I had not yet typed in any descriptions of what I wanted, etc. Once I did that and uploaded a photo, the rapid response of messages was identical in nature to smartdate.com except that this site would not let me actually look at them until I paid them money. I had never before tried out any online dating site & these 2 just happened to catch me in an adventurous mood.

Word of warning - Do NOT put in money for a site that says it has a free trial period. If the whole thing isn't free (without entering ANY payment info), do what I do and consider it a complete scam. The chances are extremely high that it is.

I got an offer to try out SMARTDATE.COM through FACEBOOK but I was smart enough NOT to allow their app access to all my personal data on Facebook. Instead, just typed in their web address. I entered my photo and very basic info & IMMEDIATELY got responses. In fact, before I had typed anything about myself, I got a response back from a guy who thanked me for winking back at him - which I didn't do. He found my profile fascinating. I wrote him back that I didn't remember winking back & that I still didn't have anything in my profile information. I didn't hear back from him again. I just chalked that up to his error.

The thing that made me suspicious is that it seemed like everyone's writing style was identical. They even made the exact same mistakes in English: Namely using the word 'will' instead of 'would'. Conditional speaking is hard to get right, especially in English & it clued me in that they were not native English speakers. Men who listed themselves as Caucasian and living in London were consistently making very basic grammar errors. After reading a few of them, (before I even looked up the site for scams) I started thinking that they all seemed to sound the same. A lot of the men were from "Texas City, TX" which raised a red flag for me. Raise your hand if you've ever heard of it. Me neither. When I noticed that, I began looking at all their posts with speculation and deleting the ones that were obvious scams. After reading this, I'll delete them all and have Outlook send future emails from that site to the Trash bin.