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on a reader's advice, please note that this is a review of asiadate.com aka asiandate.com, and not of asiandating.com, which might or might not suffer similar problems - i haven't checked it out. recently, due to a friend's involvement, i had cause to investigate the authenticity of an asian dating site. the site, which i won't link to, because i don't want to improve its search ranking, is asiandate.com, also operating under the domain aliases asiadate.com (i.e. without the "n"), asianbeauties.com and orientbrides.com (more on these alternative domain names later), and redirecting upon registration from the domain marryasianbride.com. my suspicions were aroused by my friend's description of the site: drop-dead gorgeous women everywhere, constantly sending him letters and chat pop-up requests, yet for every letter read after a lady's first, he had to pay ten credits, and ten credits likewise to send a lady a reply letter - instant messaging chats cost one credit per minute after the first three (free) minutes. credits could be bought at varying rates depending on how many you bought at a time, ranging from $8 per ten credits to $4 per ten credits. concerned that my friend was being scammed, i did some investigating, and came to the conclusion that yes, he was. after sharing my research with him, he agreed. here, then, is my research, to warn those considering using asiandate.com against wasting their time and money. my investigations took two forms: direct investigation by registering a fake profile, and indirect investigation by scouring the net for positive/negative reviews. i'll summarise the results of the fake profile first. my fake anti-scammer profile on asiandate.com on 27 june 2014, i registered a fake profile, leaving all details unset other than name, age and profile description ("a few words about yourself"), which i set (respectively) to "michael michaelson", 70, and " i'm just here to check whether this site is a scam. please only message me if you are a scammer. ". notice that "michael" explicitly requested only scammers to message him. i could be pretty certain, then, that anybody messaging him either had not read his profile, or was a scammer, or (most likely) both. "michael" did not upload any profile pictures. screenshot of michael michaelson profile edit | screenshot of michael michaelson profile as seen by ladies further on, i present a single piece of persuasive evidence from the results of this fake profile that the scamming on asiandate.com is systemic. if you want to go straight to that evidence, then please click here . otherwise, read on for the build-up to that evidence. the implausible chat pop-ups within minutes, the chat pop-ups began appearing. they never stopped, only increasing in frequency over the following few days. the vast majority of the "women" (i quote that word only because it is entirely possible that behind any of these messages was a man) messaging "michael" sported profile pictures that looked professionally photographed, and most of the ladies could even have passed for professional models - in all likelihood, many if not most of these images were of professional models. a sample of some of the first few messages "michael" received, along with my commentary, if any, in grey, follows. i did not take screenshots of any of these chat pop-ups, but you don't have to take them on faith - you can perform the same experiment that i did, and see for yourself that these are the sort of messages that you receive. 23 year old li: hello,may i have a chat with you chatting with "li" would have cost "michael" one credit per minute after the first three - i wonder what it would have cost her? based on reviews i've read by past customers, it's very likely that "li" was a paid employee of asiandate.com. 20 year old binghan: michael,so sweet to see you here . this is a lovely greeting, but why would it be sweet for "binghan" to see "michael" here when all she knows about him is that he's a seventy year old man who wants to hear only from scammers? 19 year old rui: what make such a man open his door for me? as for "binghan" above, why would "rui" want such a man as a seventy year old in search of scammers to open his door for her? 45 year old xianhong: do you like a sweet and passionate chinese girl? [followed by images of roses] 31 year old lisha: do you like a sweet and passionate chinese girl? 22 year old wenwen: i am such a passionate sweet lady,you will love to being stay with me forever?michael three "sweet" and "passionate" women message "michael" one after another - are they reading from the same script? 27 year old fei: i live in your country now ,can i visit you ? [followed by emoticons] it's suspicious that "fei" uses the phrase "your country" rather than naming that country, i doubt she even knows which country it is, let alone that she lives in it. 26 year old hongmin: oh , so tired now. want to lie on the bed, then close my eyes. would you like to join me honey?? doesn't this seem more than a little forward for a genuine woman sincerely searching for a life partner? 24 year old huijun: i am wealthy, do you like to have a wealthy wife?i can be a good wife.i am serious.i am for real.i want have you. can you be mine? how likely is it that a wealthy and attractive 24 year old woman would proposition a 70 year old man whose image she had not seen and about whom she knows effectively nothing except that he wants to hear only from scammers, versus the likelihood that...? how likely, too, is it that if she were legitimate, she would send the exact same message a second time not long afterwards (she did)? 20 year old yiling: i live in your city ,can i visit you ? [followed by a bunch of emoticons] "yiling" implies that she knows in which city "michael" lives without him even having mentioned it anywhere, and, tellingly, she does not name that city. after several days, the chat pop-ups stopped arriving from asiandate.com women and started arriving (almost, but not quite) exclusively from anastasiadate.com women (more on this site and others in the family later), as evidenced by both the physical appearances of the women and the chat links, which were to pages in the anastasiadate.com domain. for some reason, the women started addressing their messages to "not" rather than to "michael", presumably because i had previously registered an account "not real", although i'm not sure how that account/name became linked to the "michael michaelson" account. in any case, the frequency of the pop-ups didn't abate - if anything, it increased. there were pretty much constantly at least one and often around five chat pop-up windows on the screen at a time. the best-case-lying, worst-case-scamming letters within 24 hours, the letters began accumulating in "michael's" asiandate.com inbox. again, most of the women in the photographs looked like professional models. many of the letter writers purported to have read "michael's" profile, in which he solicited messages from scammers only - yet here they were messaging him anyway. this is damning enough as it is, but i've got an even better actual smoking gun to present afterwards, so read on for that. here is a sample of those quotes from those letters, including any of my comments in grey. 25 year old yu feng: " wow, i consider myself the luckiest girl in this world today! i appreciate every word in your profile and you must be the very man that i’ve been searching for years! " screenshot of yu feng's first letter 24 year old que: " i can’t believe my eyes as soon as i see your profile here. you are such a gentle, easy-going, kind-hearted, nice-looking, responsible gentleman. i have a very great first expression for you and wish to know more things about you. " screenshot of que's first letter i'm not quite sure what "que" was looking at because "michael" didn't post any pictures. 26 year old mingfeng: " i have already studied your profile and i can't deny that i'm impressed. " screensho
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