SeniorPeopleMeet.com - Dating Site Review

There have been at least 3/4 scammers/spammers per week on this site, but there are also some very respectable and authentic men. I have met a couple of them so I can vouch for it.

I thought I'd provide a bit of useful information for y'all. These are common sense tips for dating online and offline, and can be useful when meeting someone new. Happy dating!

Dating Safety Tips

1. Anyone who is able to commit identity theft can also falsify a dating profile.

2. There is no substitute for acting with caution when communicating with any stranger who wants to meet you.

3. Never include your last name, e-mail address, home address, phone number, place of work, or any other identifying information in your Internet profile or initial e-mail messages. Stop communicating with anyone who pressures you for personal or financial information or attempts in any way to trick you into revealing it.

4. If you choose to have a face-to-face meeting with another member, always tell someone in your family or a friend where you are going, whom you are going to meet and when you will return. Never agree to be picked up at your home. Always provide your own transportation to and from your date and meet in a public place with many people around.

Deciding to meet

You should never exchange personal information with someone you just met on an internet service without first checking out their credentials. We advise you against meeting people in person that you just met on our service.

If you do decide to meet, after a lengthy exchange of messages and after you confirm that the person is who they say they are, you should only meet in a public place during the day.

@Sally Gracie

@Jean

First, please know that we are sorry for your experiences. Senior internet scamming has become big business on the Internet--across all platforms and all dating sites. The bottom line--as in real life-- is if it sounds fishy or too good to be true,, trust your instincts. We rely on members to report fraudulent or suspicious activity, which is why our "Report a Concern" button is available on every profile and in your inbox. If you pay monthly, you can cancel your account at any time before the auto-renew date each month. Click on "My Account" and then "Unsubscribe me."

Fondly, Lisa from BlackPeopleMeet.com

@Nona Send your photo to PeopleMediaLisa@gmail.com. I will forward it on to our fraud department. Thank you.

Another scammer’s heaven site. I had horrible experience with Match.com, and found this site is owned by Match.com. As innocent members like us, I had to tell you the serious scam problems, that they scam everything from you. While I was the first timer with the web dating, did not read the dating reviews and trust people. Good members like us, we are the bad/heartless scammers’ victims and dating web site money making resource. Please refer to my (Jean) 7/11/2010 review that I posted to edatereview.com. I am a highly educated engineer and good looking with great paid job. Like most members complaints - lack of responses and found no one, I fell into the scammer’s trap badly!!! I lost about $7,000 hard earned money. We are in the same boat, I wanted to let you know!!! Ladies and gentlemen, do not ever give up a penny if any one ask you money!

Don’t let them auto-renew your subscription to scam you again …, go to your account to terminate your account before the auto-renew time. Save your cancellation paper and snapshots just in case. After I told Match.com in paper to the customer service and HQ - my horrible experience that I have been scammed $7,000, and I terminated my subscription before my auto-renew time. Match.com ignored all my pains, still illegally renewed and charged me again, I then, show them the paper, they finally had to stop!!! Shame on all of them!!! I rate this site 0 star.

Dr. Phil, I love your shows, you have helped and educated us for years, why are you sponsoring Match.com? Please help us honest singles, we are looking to find someone to have dinner, nice conversation, then, may develop into meaningful friendship and/or relationship.

Nigerian Scams.... I too get the Nigerian Scams but you can spot them immediately. Remember, if something is too good to be true, it isn't!! Ray, Sacramento.

I've been on SPM for two days, and I want my money back (though I doubt I'll even get an email!) I only signed up for one month, so that's something.

I received SPM "alert" emails to my private account, but when I click the link the person doesn’t exist. 1) I think that the site may be hacked. So I sent an email to SPM to that effect. I was contacted by a man in my hometown. Now I live a continent away, but he appeared to be well-educated and interesting, so I sent an email to his private yahoo account. Then I received a "Dear" email in PINK type that was written by a functional illiterate. I responded, telling the man "lavaman 62" as kindly as possible that I didn't think we had much to talk about. THEN, I received an email "alert" from SPM from "XCE2929"that was virtually identical to Lavaman's original profile. Yuck! I'm no baby, but the cynicism and dishonesty of this scam makes me sick. I also received numerous "flirts" and "messages" on-site from men in Texas and another in Brooklyn. Pretty strange as I was searching Washington State.

What grounds do we have for asking for refunds? I did match.com a few years ago and never had these problems!

I'm so cynical about this that I'm not sure that this site isn't run by SPM. Notice all the CYA messages on this post, and the links at the bottom of the page are for affiliated websites.

I can verify these complaints with email attachments, etc. Please don't say these complaints are bogus! I didn't want to click the one star for rating, but I had to in order to send this email.

@Lisa I have information about a person who scammed me. I already reported him to your site. I found he was on the site the next day & I sent a message to him through the site. He immediately was gone, deleted. I also have photos, though they probably aren't him. This guy said he was from Spain & sounded like it. Unfortunately he had me going for awhile until he asked for money & to come & stay with me. How can I send you a photo?

As a joke I sarcastically put that I hate men and am looking for a loser who has no job and no life. He must be creepy and stupid. Well I couldn't believe it when I got a bunch of flirts. What a joke. Don't waste your time on this site.

@Phyllis Sadly, Phyllis, this is all too common on online dating sites. They jump from site to site and are hard to pin down. However, unlike many dating sites, we have an entire division that handles SPAM and scams. Please report any suspicions to us via your "Report a Concern" button, which is located on all profiles and in your inbox. Continue to be cautious, but have fun! Lisa from SeniorPeopleMeet.com

@louisa Please refer this user via our prominent "Report a Concern" button. It can be found on any profile and in your inbox. Thanks for the warning for all online dating sites! Lisa from SeniorPeopleMeet.com

@Mike Glad to hear it, Mike. As long as you are having fun and being cautious like you would on any internet site, dating at seniorpeoplemeet.com can be a a blast! We hope you find true love soon-and let us know about it.

Lisa from SeniorPeopleMeet.com

@Lori Monroe Hi Lori-I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience. I can guarantee that we are a legitimate online dating site owned by Match.com. We answer all inquiries that are send via our "report a concern" button, which can be found both on your profile page and in your inbox. Since you're not on the site anymore, you can go directly to: contact us . Please let me know how it turns out. Lisa from SeniorPeopleMeet.com

I've been on this site for almost one month and have encountered a lot of impersonators. I keep getting the same generic message from multiple people in multiple states with slightly different profile info. I talked to one for a while on the site and shortly after communicating through email his picture changed i got a virus. Most of the others I talked to are just perverts, you can't even have an intelligent conversation with them. I just about blocked all of them. When their letters are long like a resume and talks about a dead wife and young children and how much they travel for work. beware!

Beware of armandexplorer from silver spring, he is not for real, he is a scammer who is pretending to be someone he is not... anyone can fall for him because of the money he makes but don’t let him fool you.... He will scam you like you would not believe.... He is on many social networks, he is also on match.com so if you want to do some search about him Google that name and you will see.

@Linda and all:

Please send all of the specific info you have, including profile names and screen shots if possible, so we can look into this immediately. We are not seeing the same things you do on our end, so it is imperative that when our members suspect fraud, they let US know right away.

Please know you can always contact us using this link

Fondly, Lisa for Senior People Meet

It has taken me less than 24 hours to see that this entire site is a Nigerian scam. A couple of years ago an unbelievable man communicated with me, wanted to use IM to talk, was working in Nigeria, had a son with him. It took about a week to figure out what was going on and I cut off all communication. They typically will send a beautiful floral arrangement with a pink teddy bear in it....sound familiar...I got one. Anyway, I've received a number of "flirts" and they all have a common thread in the way they write their profile. Once you "get it" they are easy to spot. Gives me a sinking feeling that these Nigerian jerks prey on us. The money they raise goes right into terrorism. I responded to one this morning and his location and picture changed when I went back to look at it again. That was it-cancelled everything.

@Laura Hi Laura-We're so sorry you have had this experience, and we'd like to help you. Please know you can always contact us using this link. This is at the bottom of our site, under the "Contact us" info. As soon as we are personally notified of any issues, our staff takes swift and strong measures to correct them.

While online dating is usually quite safe, there are rare occasions on every dating site where scams come along. We continually provide online dating safety tips on our site, newsletter and via our spokesperson, Dr. Terri Orbuch. We are committed to providing a fun, safe and ultimately romantic experience for seniors.

We are owned by the same company that owns Match.com, so we are a reputable and long-standing site, and our customers' safety and happiness is our utmost concern. We have hundreds of happy senior couples and romantic success stories, and we'd like you to be one of them.

We look forward to helping you in any way needed.

Fondly, Lisa for Senior People Meet

I've had an account with seniorpeoplemeet for about 3 months now and i've never encountered problems people have posted here. I first found out about this site through a tv commercial. Although I haven't found love on this site yet, I have made a few good friends so far.

@JANETTE M SKOKAN Janette, I just joined SeniorPeopleMeet 2 weeks ago, everything was fine until yesterday when I went to log in and received a message saying that I had an invalid username/password. Very long story short, I followed the directions for resetting my password and when I logged in low and behold there is a picture of another woman on MY PROFILE!!, the profile information below the picture is still my info, but the picture and the personal info: age, height, city/state, children etc is NOT ME! I went into the flirts and messages and some of the flirts are mine that i had received and some are not. There are messages that I never sent to people I never contacted. I was horrified to see this. I am now becoming frustrated and upset as there appears to be no way for me to contact anyone from this site. I have been searching for a way for hours now. You mentioned in your comment that you spoke with a 'site manager'. Can I ask how you were able to do that? I am desperate to make contact with a live person. I have sent emails, but I very much want to speak to someone who can fix this problem. In the meantime I have gone in and stopped my auto-renew, but I'd welcome any info on how to contact the site other than by email. Thank You.