Has anyone ever encountered a fake profile while on eHarmony?


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Gr8Guyn2008 is offline Gr8Guyn2008 Post #11  October 13,2009, 5:56pm
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As an aside but on topic I did receive a match on Chemistry that was fake. It was of a match that I also had received on Match. The photos were the same and much of the information was the same but certain things were very much different, such as age was off by a couple of years. (Age on most sites is generated based on the birth date that you submit when you sign up and will therefore track your age over time)

Since I was not a member of Chemistry (have a free profile there) but was at the time a paying member on Match I contacted her about her seeming clone on Chemistry. She replied thanking me for the information and that she was not a member on Chemistry and never had been or created a profile there.

That is my only "fake" profile story.
 
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MicMan is online now MicMan Post #12  October 14,2009, 4:20am
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Mr_Right wrote :
Yep. I got matched up with Aunt Jemima one time.
Talk about a sticky situation! Was she at least sweet?
 
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She was removed for some reason...
 
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Gr8Guyn2008, you were absolutely correct about the grammatical errors, at least in the fast track message that he sent me. That is something else that stood out to me, most people want to take their time which is what I prefer to do as well. The more I thought about it, I noticed that eHarmony had a "free" weekend this past weekend when I got it and it was an instant fast track request. I have been tempted to ask him for a candid photo shot just to see what he does, and if he cannot provide one, then maybe I do need to report it, just in case.
I am embarrassed to admit, but how does one get scammed by someone like that? I certainly want to educate myself. Is it when people are too trusting and give out too much personal information and or get money scammed out of them? Thank you all for your advice, its greatly appreciated.
 
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Mr_Right wrote :
She was removed for some reason...
Because I took her off the market. She's a delight in the mornings but a mess in the bedroom!
 
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I used to check the area they were from for prisons. Got one from Lompoc that said she was a banker, only had two fuzzy photos, said she was ten years younger than me. Wrote like a guy, and only replied on the same day each week, when he had computer access I guess. Mining for ID info is my guess.
 
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Her favorite things were syrup.
Sticky Situation to be in!
 
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Comedy4life is offline Comedy4life Post #18  June 10,2011, 7:42am
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Some fake profiles are easy to spot. I have gotten 2 profile closed, after reporting them.

One of them went to instant Eharmony e-mail. I decided to open it, and I saw a website to go to, and an e-mail to send other stuff to. That just all kinds of red flags. Don't be stupid, stay safe kids.
 
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nick222 is offline nick222 Post #19  June 10,2011, 8:02am
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I don't recall ever seeing one that was obviously fake (e.g. Aunt Jemima), but I saw several where the person was clearly just playing around with the site and not setting up a real profile.

I had one match who looked so much like a supermodel in her photos that I thought it might have been a fake profile. She closed me rather than sending me spam, though, so maybe she was really that incredibly hot and looking for the male equivalent of that.
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Badgerboy is offline Badgerboy Post #20  June 17,2011, 7:16am
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Never saw a fake profile on EH. But I routinely archived any profile where the match clearly had entered the minimum amount of information, and had no picture, or one, IMHO, not-current picture. EH is an investment I wasn't interested in people not prepared to put the same amount of effort as I was.

But what I did start running into, was people going through my activity related websites, and sending me e-mail. "Hey I'm Interested in You." Googling the e-mail address or the name, and I quickly found those to be scammers from the third world. I have since turned off e-mail access or removed my e-mail address from people I have not 'friended' on those web sites.
 
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