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Ideas to combat profile fraud...
6/18/2006 8:21 am |
I am very new to this site. And a few months new to this style type of meeting people. I have tried other well advertised sites and dropped them within the first month due to all the fake people. I am a real lady who doesn't do the bars and I am very honest too. Being an adult we all know what we really want....I do! I am shy in person till I get to know someone so I decided to try this...I like to write and writing my thoughts is easy for me. For now I am only a standard member I am trying to decide if I want to spend more money which want be refunded if I am totally 100% unhappy with the site etc.. before joining. Maybe through my blog and answering blogs I can find the answer I am searching for. Other than to let you know I am a real honest lady, I don't know how to help but wish I could. If I can please let me know.
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6/19/2006 6:32 am |
I've performed sortof a test on here... everytime I log on I randomly pick and place several people on my hotlist, Why? because I've wondered if they were getting the notification.... I can't believe that out of the 30-40+ entrees not one female has even a morbid sense of curiousity about who has put them on a hotlist. So here I am wondering if LesbianPersonals is getting like "Erocity"? just collecting money but not letting people connect. I, myself would gladly pay your fee if you would lift your "no personal info" ban.
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I think any suggestions that do come up should involve the whole planet. Not all of the members are in the US. Outside the US we can't access a 1_800 number. Does this mean we have to pay more. Until now I have been a paying member and gold at that. I let it slip to standard because I was not protected by the site. I reported having child porn sent to me and it was ignored, three times I wrote and didn't get a reply. If people don't want anyone to access there private info they shouldn't put it on their profile. But then you do know that all the people who don't want spammed don't put it on their profile. Isn't it the case that you just want people to stay on this site rather than going to msn messenger or yahoo. You would naturally rather that people stayed on the IM on this site. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that if people want to go to IM or be spammed then they put their details on the profile and if they don't .....like me...then they don't put it on their profile...quite simple really. Bye everyone, it was a blast
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7/1/2006 1:05 am |
I would like to become a member but cant nr 1. south african with credit card nr 2. international fax is to expensive so what is there to do but be a standard member???!!! I have emailed the support team 2 times and no replies in more than a month. So how the h*ll can I become a member is my question or should I go els where?
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7/9/2006 9:20 pm |
I'm still amazed that you people really believe all this pissing and moaning is going to do anything. It really makes you all look patyhic and sad. Lord knows I pity each one of you. Andrew Conru could snap his fingers and fix every dam complaint being mentioned here and each and everyone of you are playing hell just to get a response from him about your issue, except a few brown nosing assholes that have some appearant stronger connection to Andy than the rest of you. I'm thouroughly enjoying watching and reading all of you making complete jokes of yourself while This site drains your accounts of every penny. This A.F.F is ran just like a slum. You know what a slumlord is? A slumlord is a landlord that simply don't give a flying fuck about his building or tenants, as long as he gets his rent. The whole thing could cave in as far as a slum lord cared as long as rent was paid first. And that's exactly what your dealing with here except it's a website instead of a building and members instead of tenants. If I was still a paid member I'd shut that credit card down for a couple months and see If Ol' Mr. Luv pump Likes that shit. I personally can't wait to see this site crash hard to the ground, no sweat off my browl there's more sites out there. Maybe that's what various inc. should start thinking about more their not the only whore on the corner any more. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN LUVPUMP BEWARE THAT IS NOT A BANANA IN HIS PANTS JUST ASK YOUR1DREAMLOVER THIS GUY OR EVEN TECHSTEVE THIS GUY ALL THREE ARE HIGHLY SUSPECT AND HAVE BEEN SEEN AT WALMARTS LINGERIE DEPARTMENT WITH A JAR OF PEANUT BUTTER AND HALF STARVED PUPPY. ALTHOUGH PANTLESS THEY ARE BELIEVED APPROACHABLE BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T SHAKE THEIR HANDS!!!!!!!!  If Nick didnt say anything in that new blog post, I would not have known anything about this post. It doesnt bother me at all. You can say anything you want about me.....nobody I care about gives a crap what you say about me There is no such thing as bad publicity  Steve
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7/11/2006 10:41 pm |
I too am a Standard ONLY member. My views: I would not like NOT being able to exchange personal contact information ever! I would hope, that besides LesbianPersonals initializing a 3-mail guide, that MOST people here have enough common sense not to hand out personal information to complete strangers. When I joined in May 2006, at first my inbox was bombarded with requests. As flattering as this was, I know not to endanger myself, whether it be a real-live physical threat or a computer-generated spam threat. Common sense must prevail. Diligence will pay off, if the real goal is to actually meet someone 'real'. Once I felt comfortable enough with some of the men here, I only then gave my personal email address. Then we would do the email-tag game until I felt comfortable enough to share my cell phone number. After talking for a while, then we would schedule our date. We're all adults here (it is LesbianPersonals, right?). IF we get hit with SPAM because we passed info to the wrong person, let us deal with it. Please do not limit the Standard membership activities even more. It's bad enough I can't access the profiles when I need to! Thanks for listening. *L*
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my group has been the victim of your new protocols to stop fraud. my group description which has gone unchanged for the few years since it's creation. however, with these new anti-fraud rules my group's description was reviewed and my group denied because my group description allegedly had contact information in it. there is no contact information in the descriptionl. there are no email addresses, phone numbers, instant message, etc. in the description. my group description only has what the group is about, the city we're in, and the set day and time that we hold chats in the group chatroom, nothing else. i sent the description for update in the hopes that when you reviewed it you would see your error. however, the group was denied again. what's going on and what can i do? this is upsetting a very successful and active group. all these changes instead of improving is making things worse. i don't know if this some sort of error bug of yours but what can i do to get my group active again. here is the group i'm talking about if you want to review the decription, BBWS in houston . the onlyt thing else i can try is blanking the description which is ridiculous, or removing our chat times since i don't know what your reviewers is mistakenly viewing as contact information. please, help  sweetnurse25
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Bounces from the email of record (not necessarily the one used to initially sign up) should certainly be considered a warning sign. Rather than delete the account immediately, perhaps put it in a suspended state so that the next time the user signs on they have to provide updated information. I don't like the idea of probes that require a reply within 72 hours. Sometimes I go for several days or even weeks without checking email, especially when I am on vacation.
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I just discovered this blog today, and I have read most of the posts. I have been a member for four years, and a premium member for most of that time. Now that I am a standard member, there is very little that I am able to do. No emails (except replies) and no profiles. While I was a premium member, it was not at all unusual for me to send an outside email in my emails to standard members. I did it to make it easier for the (alleged) women to whom I was writing to be able to reply. It has gotten me a considerable amount of spam as a result. I have learned recently that it is possible for a standard member to send a reply to an email that they receive, so that it is not as important to send an initial email address as I thought it was. I like the idea of waiting until the second email to send any outside contact info, and perhaps warning of the risk when it is detected by the system. I have enjoyed using LesbianPersonals (and Alt, BTW) and will likely renew my premium membership. I am concerned about using credit cards over the 'net, and would like to get a confirm ID, but I am reluctant to send personal information without knowing what happens with it. Is my driver's license information kept on file indefinately or destroyed at some time? Tom
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9/4/2006 8:04 am |
We're sick of reading fake blogs. At least a dozen that we have checked out have only consisted of cut-and-paste entries from a news site. Some of them post frequently and if are allowed to keep it up they could clog up the blogs for genuine glog posters. How can we get that sort of blog removed? We are considering setting up member-driven teams that police the blogs - if 3 of these members deny something, then it goes away. Really? Then why has 'those' that made the comment I am quoting still here? I and several others have reported to the site multiple times that the pictures that were up were stolen from another pay site, that the profile is false {it is not 2 people, not female either}, etcetera...yet the profile and the blog still stand. The posts that have been deleted {who deleted them, though?} were plagarised in 'THEIR' blog. DEFINETLY THE LAST CLITICALS POST Aug 24, 2006 11:58 pm Postscript: I would have been happy to have left this as it was, though two bloggers have correctly accused me of plagarism. The blog WAS created as a scam, a spoof. The characters are so patently false that very few rational people were taken in. Most of the posts were intended to amuse the writer, or to amuse the readers, or both. Some of the content of some of the posts or ideas for posts were taken from other internet sources. On several occasions, writings by serious journalists were used to spread ideas and propositions that were very worth spreading. By not naming the sources, or by passing them off as the writings of Dee, I was guilty of a plagarism. It has been suggested that in so doing I have done harm to such writers. I honestly fail to see how. The writers of the articles on the Middle East conflict would, I suggest, be happy to see their ideas communicated to a receptive audience that would not otherwise come in contact with them. They would have been pissed, and rightfully so, at not having been acknowledged. To those writers I owe an apology and would readily give one should circumstances evolve to a point where I need to do so in person. And that is the only apology owed. economickrisis 1069 posts View my blog 8/22/2006 11:06 pm [Add a comment] [quote] Precioussss Please excuse my use of your comment space for this....Your much loved (haha) Dusty Widget has been wrongly accused in many blogs as the perpetrator of the cruel and heartless cliticals scam. But the bloke who writes economickrisis is the rotten evil scoundrel who created TheCliticals in order to take the piss out of Blogsville. Do not enter unless you are armed with a sense of humor.
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You know, a good way to combat profile fraud is to get the abuse team to investigate complaints of fruad when they recive them. They seem to just fobb people off with endless back and forward mail and no matter how much evidence is provided, nothing is done. I have recently been a victim of this, I reported someone who was abusing me in her blog citing some of her acts of plagerism, providing her real photo to prove her profile pic is fake and what.....a big fat NOTHING. Bye everyone, it was a blast
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I'm a big girl. I don't need the site acting as my mommy and deciding who I can and cannot send my contact information to. If I want to be stupid, let me be stupid. Just add a disclaimer that the site is not responsible for members' stupidity and be done with it.
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