Why users you chat with don't want to exchange contacts for talk for free on a different communicator? Why do they want to spend so much money? Do other sites like Anastasia Date run by the same company are real?
Is dating.com legit?
You will get many requests and emails from free members, and you have to pay to chat with them. What is very alarming the people you talk to will never exchange email addresses or social contacts.
The pricing is very wired. You can read about costs below. Shortly, you need to pay for everything, like per email or message sent, per one-minute video chat. However, what is strange that members don't want to change the conversation medium to another communicator. You can spend a couple of hundred USD on merely talking with the men or women you never meet in person. More bad news - if you don't cancel your membership next time, they will bill your credit card again.
Automatic membership renewal - beware of extra costs!
If you purchase one-month membership and don't cancel your paid membership, your credit or debit card will be charged again.
Do dating.com profiles are fake?
The answer is not easy as you can see many negative dating.com reviews and comments on Trustpilot and Google Play that belong to men and women. So there have to be both gender's real profiles. However, while chatting, you will have some sense that something is wrong here. The person whom you speak with wants to convince you with all the power to buy more credits to chat with her.
You need to decide for yourself, but I would not recommend spending money on this dating service.
And talking about money...
It's expensive; you need to pay for almost every action you take on the website and APP.
Dating.com costs
They sell packages of 150, 600, and 1500 credits, where 150 credits cost around 25 USD (depends on country).
Chat requires 1 сredit/1 min;
Offline Message - 1 credit/letter (160 symbol limit);
Mobile App Message sending costs 1 credit/message
1 Email - 10 credits;
Personal message in Live Video costs 1 credit each;
Video Chat (one-way) - 4 credits/1 min;
Two-Way Video Chat - 6 credits/ 1 min;
Sending/viewing photos or videos - 15 credits each view;
Sending stickers - 5 credits;
Animated smilies - 1 credit;
Sending gifts in Live Video costs from 5 to 1000 credits each;
Viewing video in profile costs 10 credits each;
Let's Mingle - 5 credits/use.
On scam dating sites, it's very common to pay for message send or minute conversation. Usually, the women or men on the other side are paid to chat with us.
Examples of such sites are myDates, iDates and mDAtes where it looks like all profiles writing to us are fake, and in the beginning, our messages are answered by an automated bot, and later but people are hired for chatting with us, where every message cost us a few USD. On mydates.com and similar websites, they usually keep the information about Artificial Intelligence and fake profiles deeply hidden in Terms and Conditions. On Dating.com, I couldn't find such statements.
CooMeet, on the other side, is a live cam chat where you pay by the minute of conversation, and in terms of use, they wrote women can make money from chatting with guys.
Such a fraudulent strategy doesn't necessarily have to be true for dating com. However, the costs are very suspicious here.
Dating.com looks like something in between. There are definitely real profiles here but too many fake ones. If behind them are dating.com workers or freelance scammers? It doesn't matter; it's just not worth the money.
Similar dating sites
Dating.com owner is by SOL Networks Limited, located in Malta. At 71, Tower Road, SLM 1609, Sliema.
This company runs also:
Anastasia Date - this site has many negative reviews on Trustpilot and even PayPal community. Men often complain about anastasiadate.com that women are not real. When you search for the pictures of women you are chatting with on the internet, you can see stolen ones on social media. You talk with charming girls, and later you find her photo on Facebook with her husband and kids. The same for the dating APP Anasatia Date on Google Play. People find it frustrating getting bot messages.
Perfect-Dating.com - advertises as a place where you can find a lot of attention from beautiful single women. The site looks almost lookalike dating com
AsianDate.com - claims to be an International Dating site with Asian women. As some Trustpilot review this site: real women with evil motives who are there to scam men. You can't exchange contacts. All communications are monitored and modified. On Asiandate, women don't want to meet the man and building relationships with him.
AmoLatina.com - Amolatina app have many bad reviews on Google Play. Its pricing model is very similar to dating.com: you need to pay by minutes of chatting, opening an email, and reading it cost you money and replying to it. Look at private pictures and videos is not free also.
ArabianDate.com - Some 1-star Google Play reviews suggest this APP is a total rip-off, and the cost is too high for chatting with autogenerated texts, not real people.
Russianbrides.com - Many men lost a massive amount of money on this site, like more than 5000 USD, and haven't found a wife or a loved one. You will find few women who are genuinely interested in you. Still, most women are paid to chat by their local agency associated with RussianBrides and their sister site, AnastasiaDate.com. You are paying per minute of chat here, and this pricing model is vastly used on scammy sites where women are paid for seducing men.
AfricanDate.com - is supposed to be a site for dating African women, and even you cannot find many reviews about this site when you log in, you will feel that women are paid in some way to keep the conversation with men going.
It looks like they try to have a niche on every continent.
The Dating.com APP creator on Google Play is DMM SOLUTIONS INC. I don't know its relations with SOL Networks Limited However, besides the APPs listed above (AmoLatina, ArabianDate, AfricanDate), they created also:
XOXO(aka Cherish) - Local dating, meet new people.
TravelDating: Your travel mates
FlirtWith - Live streaming Dating APP
That reviews on Google Play are also not very favorable, so I would be very cautious when signing up for those apps.
Popularity by country
It is suspicious that dating.com is most popular in African countries like Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, etc. it may be a coincidence, and it may be just popular in Africa. However, many romance scammers have their businesses located in Africa. It is better to beware of a romance scam where a handsome and rich man or sexy, charming woman falls in love with us and will later ask for the money.
1. Ghana
2. Uganda
3. Philippines
4. Namibia
5. Jamaica
6. Tanzania
7. Zambia
8. Nigeria
9. Kenya
10. Senegal
11. Sri Lanka
12. South Africa
13. Singapore
14. Taiwan
15. Malaysia
16. Tunisia
17. Hong Kong
18. New Zealand
19. Bulgaria
20. Morocco
21. Thailand
22. United Arab Emirates
23. Algeria
24. Bangladesh
25. Pakistan
26. Indonesia
27. Croatia
28. Bolivia
29. Ecuador
30. Sweden
31. Romania
32. Serbia
33. Netherlands
34. United Kingdom
35. United States
36. Vietnam
37. Peru
38. Belgium
39. Hungary
40. Greece
41. Egypt
42. Canada
43. Saudi Arabia
44. Lithuania
45. Ireland
46. Ukraine
47. Colombia
48. Australia
49. India
50. Germany
51. Poland
52. France
53. Mexico
54. Spain
55. Norway
56. Brazil
57. Italy
58. Russia
59. Turkey
60. Japan
61. Iran
62. Argentina
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