Ohio Couple Dating Service Scam Busted

By: Rob Adams
Staff Writer
Published: Aug 6, 2010

Ohio couple could face two years prison if found guilty for dating service scam.

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The mega dating site Match.com will soon become the exclusive dating site on Yahoo!. With Match being the largest paid dating site and Yahoo! Personals being among the largest, this could without doubt make Match the largest dating site on the planet.

The two sites have several things in common including perhaps the best search utilities and high caliber singles.

However this is not the first time Match has merged with another dating site. They once had a similar partnership with the now defunct Oneandonly.com.

You can read the full story at: Match.com will become the exclusive online dating site on Yahoo!

Their intentions are good. No doubt about that. A new law (see CNN news post) is under consideration that will force internet dating sites to notify users whether they do criminal background checks.

Despite the good intentions, supposed to make internet dating safer, this law is inherently flawed right from conception.

Indeed, new legislation may just not be the answer to internet dating safety. Remember the CANN SPAM (if I have the term right) law that was supposed to protect us from the unsolicited email? Spam messages continue to bombard us daily, unabated.

And, with all due respect to the legislators, they may not be right type people to craft such a bill. I’ll bet you my bottom dollar that pretty few of them can tell you the difference between a dating site, a social networking site, and a chat room.

Ask anyone of those legislators what MySpace.com is and the response will probably be, “a dating site”. By the way, MySpace.com is a social networking site, not a dating site, for those who may not know.

Anyway, most internet dating horror stories emanate from free dating services, chat rooms and social networking services. There is a good reason predators choose these sites: they are FREE.

You see, a paid dating site requires the use of a credit card. A credit card leaves behind a paper trail. Unless it is a stolen one, no crook in his (it’s usually a he) right mind can use a credit card knowing that it could help get him caught.

And just how do they propose dealing with fake profiles? Predators are abominable creatures, but they sure aren’t stupid (at least not all of them). They often hide behind fake names and profiles. And of course fake names cannot be background verified.

Bill Ashworth of Yahoo! commented about the proposed bill, “Unreliable checks will provide a false sense of security”. I totally agree.

Any thoughts out there?

Dating site Lavalife.com is one perhaps the top dating sites out of Canada. The following article tells the story of this dating site darned well, and I think it’s a good read:

Lavalife keeps its dating website fresh with new features

Lavalife, a Canadian tech success story that has grown to be one of the hottest online dating businesses in the world is putting 20 years of experience and research into making online dating better and safer.

What began in Toronto 20 years ago as a telephone classified service and morphed into a telephone and Internet dating service has given itself a new “skin” with more features than ever before, say Lavalife’s Lori Miller and Stephanie Barrington.

“We were the first ones in Canada to launch web personals and we grew our customer base from zero to more than a million in Canada alone,” says Miller, who is the company’s dating and singles expert. “We’re one of the first to launch the web-cam feature and now it’s morphed into video.”

Essentially, as part of your profile on Lavalife, you can now upload as many as six videos of yourself, which you can then allow suitors to view if they’re trying to get a better idea of who you are and whether or not they want to ask you out on a date.

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Success

Story from Lavalife Dating Site:

Hey everybody, it CAN happen. Just hang in there and be open to what comes. I would regularly receive smiles from women in other countries and usually I would ignore them. Not to be rude, just that I figured nothing could come of it. One day I received a smile from this beautiful woman in the Philippines. For some reason I read her profile. I saw she was online, so I invited her to chat. I thought she was amazing and we ended up chatting every day for seven months. I made my first trip to the Philippines to meet her… a-year-and-a-half, hundreds of dollars in phone bills and two trips to the Philippines later, we were married. I’ve recommended Lavalife to all my single friends. Orange, CA

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THE sex industry is taking a spanking from online dating websites providing “adult” contacts with minimal costs to customers, according to business analysts.

Adult dating sites such as adultmatchmaker.com.au allow people to find sexual partners without the “moral difficulties” of visiting a brothel, said analysts IBISWorld.

“Internet sites promoting sexual rendezvous between strangers with no exchange of funds have seen strong growth in recent years,” said IBISWorld general manager Jason Baker.

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