The Finduslove Scam Revealed!

Comment by Sheree (Guest)

Sheree (Guest) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:43:24 +0000

I am a woman of 51 and I am glad you have posted this on line for everyone to see. I decided to get on line to try the dating sites due not being into the bar scene's and you know how the friend introduces you to a friend goes. *LOL Although I have not been scammed as of yet because I refuse to pay someone to meet someone on line when there are free sites. I would just delete my profile. Although I had many men email me and try the scam on me. Pictures of nice looking older men my age and even ones that were up to 10 yrs. younger, me knowing all along, most........not all, but most real men go for the younger women no matter how much the woman may look nice. I found after only a few emails they were in love, yeah,,,,,,,right. I didn't get to my age without learning something.*LOL Well, there are a lot of men on line doing this scam and usually get caught and removed from the sites. I am sure there are lots of women too doing this. Just remember the old saying,if it sounds too good to be true, then it is just that. Hope this helps out some of you guys out there, and women.

Comment by professional seo (Guest)

professional seo (Guest) — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:36:58 +0000

I've canceled and will never go back.

Comment by Ken

Ken — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:32:16 +0000

To follow-up on the previous comment: it's all well and good to try to track down people who have scammed you, but it's horrible to harass an innocent person who happens to have the same name. I'll delete any unsubstantiated addresses that appear in this comment thread from now on.

Comment by PJE (Guest)

PJE (Guest) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:57:34 +0000

ATTENTION everyone who is on this comment chain. There are more Peter Ericksons in MN than the creep you are trying to track down.

I am one of them AND I have received some pretty brutal phone calls which I have reported to authorities.

Please do more research than a Dexonline search. You are just affecting OTHER innocent people and their families.

I am sorry that someone scammed you out of money but it wasn't me.

Comment by wilfredo candelaria (Guest)

wilfredo candelaria (Guest) — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:34:41 +0000

i have some unutorizd chaeget to my papypal debit cart from CCBIL5969279AZ $100.00,Dress-FOR-LESS ONLINE KEL $428.40,Power t/of/dsp/mp3$59.98

Comment by G2G IS a Scam (Guest)

G2G IS a Scam (Guest) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:08:15 +0000

I had the same experience as the guys above with Geek 2 Geek. I signed up with a promo deal ($40 for six months or something). Two days before they auto-renewed (which I'm pretty damn sure I didn't agree to) I got an obviously fake wink (23-year-old model who's heartbroken and love sex but lives 1,000 miles away... yeah right).

As for the auto-renew, apparently you have to actively go into your account to turn it off, 'cuz it's on by default. $90 later, I've learned my lesson. While I did get one good date out of G2G, between the auto-renew scam and the fake wink scam, I've canceled and will never go back.

Comment by Geek 2 Geek Is A Scam (Guest)

Geek 2 Geek Is A Scam (Guest) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:19:38 +0000

I joined Geek 2 Geek so as to be able to exchange info with fellow movie and music buffs (my friends get sick of me talking about film noir and The Simpsons, and Russian Lit) I agreed to pay for just one month to try it out. I didn't realize they signed me up for an automatic renewal. And I am pretty darn certain I didn't click the little box for that option. They of course charged me before my first one month subscription was complete and refused to refund me for the second charge even though I terminated my account before the next month was due to start.

Comment by englishrussian (Guest)

englishrussian (Guest) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:51:47 +0000

Nice stories, i was searching for a Russian bird for a few years and have been on all of the rip off sites!! thats why I set my own Russian brides site to try and offer some real chance to meet Russian girls without getting scammed! www.email2femail.com

Comment by Green Hornet (Guest)

Green Hornet (Guest) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:13:15 +0000

Thanks for this site: whomever created it. I signed up for HeartDetectives.com and have received 4 winks and 10 emails from some great looking women. Have winked back and decided to do some checking before paying any money. Well, I won't be signing up for HeartDetectives, thanks to everyone's posts here. There are some pretty good free dating websites:

datehookup.com / connectingsingles.com / plentyoffish.com / mingle2.com / christianet.com

The best one I'd have to say is: datehookup.com--I've made some friends on there, two women in Tennessee. Christianet.com is a pretty good website: have lady friends from Scotland, Ukraine, Arizona, and New York. There are two that I've paid for with no luck: christiancafe.com and adultfriendfinder.com. Someone on christiancafe.com emailed me and she is nuts.

Comment by Bill (Guest)

Bill (Guest) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:31:12 +0000

If you are desperate for a sex mate the only way for free is backpage, craigs list or if you live in Denver sowet. downside is there is a lot of competition.

Comment by Mike (Guest)

Mike (Guest) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:41:32 +0000

I have been scammed by heartdetectives.com and got charged twice. I finally called CCBill and cancelled my subscription.

Thanks Mike

Comment by Brian Reeves (Guest)

Brian Reeves (Guest) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:57:00 +0000

Another one to be wary of is "Geek 2 Geek," the hipster/geek oriented website. I found out about it through a link to an IMDB article. Seemed a good idea, a place where you could find down-to-earth girls into stuff like movies, music, comics, that kind of thing, right? Well, after receiving 3-4 "Winks" from people who were SUPPOSEDLY interested in me, but who'd nonetheless NEVER respond when I wrote them back to follow up (and bear in mind, I had to PAY to renew a monthly membership to do so), I knew that something was up... especially, when I noticed that the "Winks" were coincidently coming about exactly 1-year after the last one did. So essentially, the website was using someone's profile--which might not have even BEEN a real profile--to send (or make it look like this person had sent) a Wink, to keep me paying to reply. What sucks is I spent some time being confused and mad by the girls themselves, wondering why they'd wink me and not respond. Oh well, just save your own time and money, and don't fall into the same trap (for that, or ANY other dating website...).

Comment by Patricia searching for love (Guest)

Patricia searching for love (Guest) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:57:20 +0000

I was just looking for a dating site to join when I found your website and later on many others too, where you can read about scams. I didn't thought it was that bad to be honest. But now I am somehow frightened to join any dating site at all.
Any recommendations? Are there sites that are fraudester-free?
Thanks again for warning me against heardetectives and finduslove.

Comment by Gonzo1 (Guest)

Gonzo1 (Guest) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:12:49 +0000

Good work on this. I wish I had read it first before I got ripped off. I'll be contesting the charges to my credit card right away.

Edited by webmaster: remainder of this comment has been removed. If you're going to try to hunt down scammers on your own, please make sure you don't harass innocent parties in the process.

Comment by Strider (Guest)

Strider (Guest) — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:31:38 +0000

I did make a free profile on finduslove and the next thing I know I was getting messages from women but on heartdectives. I found that to be very strange. Now I get about one new message every 3 or 4 days. Of course you can not see a good picture of those people or send them a message until you pay.

I have not paid and I won't. I never got a good feeling from that or Match.com or any site where you have to pay. Americansingles.com was not bad, but why pay when you have such cool free sites like MySpace.com or Friendster.com or even Bangme.net, which is not a sex site regardless of the name. Faceparty.com is okay too... these are not necessarily dating sites, but it is a FREE way to come across people.

So guys... and gals... why pay?
Besides, from experience... you usually don't find love when you look for it.

Another scam to look out for... really hot babes on HOTorNOT... usually from a different country other than the US... will scam for money or whatever they can get. Don't waste your time!

It is unfortunate that people have to scam honest people who just want to find love. I thought about making a REAL site with REAL people and not becoming rich from it. You shouldn't have to pay in order to meet quality people!

Comment by ironfisk (Guest)

ironfisk (Guest) — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:48:47 +0000

I got a wink on True.com from a woman who pointed me to racydates.com too. She claims to live out of the Chicago area. Too good to be true picture as well. Her handle is ridinwtopdown.

Comment by Co Lois (Guest)

Co Lois (Guest) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:46:01 +0000

Hi Fellow Victims:

I'm not sure what's going on @ this Heart Detectives site I've been billed $30.CDN since Feb 06 I'm not very happy about this I remember signing up with Date.ca and cancelling any future transactions as soon as I found out that it was mostly American owned. I've filled a complaint and cancelled my CC
http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
This kind of business shouldn't be tollerated

Comment by TP (Guest)

TP (Guest) — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:37:07 +0000

I have been repeatedly "winked" at by a profile called 'AudiRacingGirl' on the TRUE site who refers to the racydates site in her description.

Comment by Jas1970 (Guest)

Jas1970 (Guest) — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:30:33 +0000

I appreciate this site and almost signed up for "Heart Detectives" simply because I had email and after checking my profiles there, I had an incomplete profile and no picture posted. In fact, I had no description of myself posted and yet I had eight emails in my inbox. Being rational, I did a back ground check on Google and found this forum and another about heartdetectives.com. Their site is just like Match.com and I feel it's a total scam. Plentyoffish.com is the best because it's free and I have had more luck atleast in getting replies from women there.

Comment by Tom (Guest)

Tom (Guest) — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:33:54 +0000

Another one for you: tastydates.com leads straight to Heart Detectives - again bogus profiles on Match.com. That's the sixth I found in two weeks!

Comment by Kevin Maness (Guest)

Kevin Maness (Guest) — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:57:46 +0000

Peter Erickson dba Texpo Inc. is at it again with VeryHotLove.com. This site leads you to Heartdetectives.com, and I too was ripped off. As soon as I payed, the messages from other "Members" stopped. I called CCBill.com, and told them they should check out who they are doing business with, as I am sure a savvy lawyer could sue them too. The operator promised to tell the higher-ups. He also said I'd been issued a refund. We'll see.

Comment by AJ (Guest)

AJ (Guest) — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:07:37 +0000

"Now using MeetFunSingles.com on Match.com bogus profiles, but are spelling it out as "meet fun singles" to get past any potential Match.com filters."

also on Date.co.uk

user ID - tangerine991

Comment by Arthur (Guest)

Arthur (Guest) — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:44:40 +0000

Got a wink on Match.com with references to Racydates.com.
The woman was listed as an American with a New Jersey address.
Let the buyer beware.

Comment by Paul (Guest)

Paul (Guest) — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:34:44 +0000

Agree with what most are saying, the only site I found that appears fair, allows you to send your e mail and receive and view pics and all this is free, this is www.matchdoctor.com, this I feel is the only true free genuine site. The number of scams are just to many to mention, rule number one is, dont pay.

Comment by Mike (Guest)

Mike (Guest) — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:12:55 +0000

CCBill.com *TEXPO Inc 888-5969279 AZ

Comment by Mike (Guest)

Mike (Guest) — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:12:19 +0000

Here's the toll-free phone number for www.heartdetective.com. I called and cancelled. I received an e-mail confirmation of the cancellation the same day. The operator will ask you to repeat your information, including your credit card number and address.

Comment by Bob B (Guest)

Bob B (Guest) — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:15:42 +0000

Thank you for the info on this scam. The winking on match.com is continuing but they are using the name findonelove now. This site now leads to heartdetectives.

Comment by Jason Curry (Guest)

Jason Curry (Guest) — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:23:02 +0000

Has anyone thought about suing this individual, a class action law suit? I would also go after CCBill for participating and profiting in the scam. I think all of this would be possible since we�'re dealing with an individual within the country unlike the overseas scams.

Jason

Comment by Steve Loftin (Guest)

Steve Loftin (Guest) — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:56:31 +0000

Hey Richard... I think you would definitely be one to do what I mentioned above since you obviously savvy enough to find the same info I did on the registrations, etc. If you are still reading this post since you first added to it... email me.. sdloftin@hotmail.com

Steve

Comment by Steve Loftin (Guest)

Steve Loftin (Guest) — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:53:23 +0000

I would like to see all of you go out and fill out this complaint form to the IFCC and FBI. Get this snake invesigated. Include the link to this forum in your complaint and explain point out the places in this forum where it describes how you were redirected to another site, scammed, etc.. and how it was done illegally via another site like Match.com and the illegal usage of some poor girl's picture without her permission. All of these are Federal offenses and various types of fraud.

This is the link to the government site that specializes in this:
http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp

Here also is the link to the Minnesota Consumer Affairs... they should be sent a complaint as well:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/links/mn.htm

I have sent complaints... however, I caught onto the act from the match.com profile before I ever paid the weasle any money for his site... and since I technically wasn't defrauded for money... I can only point you guys in the right direction and hope some of you are as good as explaining this stuff to the authorities as I am. If you aren't... get someone to help you explain it. I know you may not have lost much more than $25 or $30.. but go to the effort anyway on principle... the guy took us all for suckers and thinks you are all too wimpy to turn him in nor smart enough to help catch him. Prove him wrong...

Steve

Comment by Steve Loftin (Guest)

Steve Loftin (Guest) — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 02:57:21 +0000

The same user is once again using Match.com to lure people to his site... only this one is called racydates.com.

After doing a whois on this domain.. you will see the exact same information as posted above for finduslove.com registration info.

Peter Erickson... or whoever he is... is up to it again under a new domain name... pass the word.

Steve

Comment by Jeb (Guest)

Jeb (Guest) — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:14:19 +0000

Heart Detectives suckered me is as well. However, I had a long discussion with my Bank Card Company, Bank America VISA, and they are claiming on the intermediary CCBIll.com on my behalf. Suggest you all do as well, since VISA et al, will help shut these frauds down. Go for it. Good Luck. Walt

Comment by JP (Guest)

JP (Guest) — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:35:02 +0000

ANOTHER SUCKER IS BORN - I - ME - BUT FOR 50 U.S.
MOST LIKELY THE "DID YOU GET OR IT SURE IS DIFFICULT TO CONTACT YOU" GAME THAT GOT ME.

CLASS ACTION SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLAN.

GOOD LUCK ALL.

Comment by A.C. (Guest)

A.C. (Guest) — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:15:15 +0000

Same Scam for Finduslove.com... got a "wink" on match.com today with the reference. I googled it and found my way here. Thank god for this site!!!

Comment by Ken (Guest)

Ken (Guest) — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:35:17 +0000

Just got a wink from SpecialGirl627 in Ontario, CA. The profile seems real enough, except for a reference to finduslove. Good thing there is Google so now I know this is very suspicious.

Comment by Jeffwhohatesthesescum (Guest)

Jeffwhohatesthesescum (Guest) — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:42:18 +0000

emotical33 -- Clearly Match isn't screening for, "I need some attention that my partner has been lacking to provide (if you know what I mean).Now Since I�'m just trying it out here, Im not a full fledged member, but I can also be found at meet fun singles if I cannot be reached here"

Comment by Andy (Guest)

Andy (Guest) — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 09:51:17 +0000

Hi Folks, Finduslove is at it again. Watch out for the wink from "LottaCute" on Match.com Thanks for all the info here. You saved me for sure. I'm reporting this to Match.com. I hope they can do something about this. Its quite Bogus!

Comment by Jeff (Guest)

Jeff (Guest) — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:17:53 +0000

Add jalepena090 on Match, "In case I cannot be reached here, I can also be found at meet fun singles."

Comment by Pete (Guest)

Pete (Guest) — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:07:41 +0000

Guess what Heart Detectives is still at it. They have women post on match.com, send out winks and let people know that they are also listed on Tasty Lovers .com which redirects you to HD. Then their profile disappears a few days later. People like this need to be shot, drawn and quatered. If anybody starts ANY type of lawsuit count me in. I Have the bogus emails and a ton of info for proof. So glad I found this website.

Comment by steve lillie (Guest)

steve lillie (Guest) — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:36:08 +0000

I suffered the same fate with heartdetective as many of you: many emails, then none after I paid, and none answered, once I contacted them as a member. I didn't catch on until I kept getting the bill on my credit card without my authorization. Thanks for the warning. I realize I've been scammed now. Maybe no one gets a lawyer because it's only 25 a month. Be careful of another website, eurolove.biz and the same site but different name, chat112.com. This site charge me for a day, but after logged off and came back in an hour, the authorization for me had expired. THEN, I was charged for a month without my authorization and I could not even log in. After threatening the people with going to the legal system, they refunded the unauthorized charge.
THanks again!

Comment by Jonathan (Guest)

Jonathan (Guest) — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:17:42 +0000

Now using MeetFunSingles.com on Match.com bogus profiles, but are spelling it out as "meet fun singles" to get past any potential Match.com filters.

I've just reported Lawler023 and lindaliu909 to Match.

Comment by Jim (Guest)

Jim (Guest) — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:37:43 +0000

Wow...thanks for the info. Unfortuneately I fell victim to the heartdetectives scam. Luckily I'm only in for a 4.95 trial fee. After finding the info here on this site I sent a few questions to the webmaster at heartdetectives and promptly had my account terminated. What a crock. Pretty sad to fall victim to this type of operation. Keep up the good work!!

Comment by Ken

Ken — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:18:05 +0000

Hi guys... it looks like they're now using the name "seekhotdates.com". I've got an update here.

Comment by Dennis (Guest)

Dennis (Guest) — Sun, 22 May 2005 12:55:16 +0000

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Comment by AAA BBB (Guest)

AAA BBB (Guest) — Tue, 03 May 2005 13:55:05 +0000

got the wink on match.com from honestjassenia. The profile is identical with one of the profiles mentioned here by someone else, tryrenee123

Comment by Donna (Guest)

Donna (Guest) — Tue, 03 May 2005 08:39:43 +0000

How could this happen, when with all good concious people go on these sites to maybe find someone dear, and people that run these sites take advantage of lonely and broken hearts, that is so sad, how can anyone trust anyone.
In my profile is says that I am a widow,how can they play with someone's emotions like that, take my money and yes after the charge went through my card I have not received a message in months, but I think there is a bogus profile (Treasurehunt)he sends me an email once every 2 months just to keep me coming back, I sent an email asking them if they knew the last time he was on line, their answer was just keep emailing it is a matter of time, now I feel like a fool,because I just kept sending him emails, waisting my time and my money.
Thank You for opening up my eyes.

Comment by Ken

Ken — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:53:09 +0000

I'm glad so many people are finding their way here.

One thing everyone can do is report each bogus user to match.com, using their on-line customer support form. Hopefully if they hear enough about it, they'll actually start putting in some filters for this kind of thing. I reported a couple of users and got a form-letter back saying that those users had been booted, but I don't know if there have been any systemic changes.

As far as a lawsuit goes, I'm not sure. I haven't suffered any damages myself, other than perhaps some "mental anguish". I'd be glad to participate and provide information, but I never went far enough with finduslove to gather any hard evidence of a scam. If anyone out there feels like they want to pursue it, I'd say talk to a lawyer; or, if you want to try going after the perpetrator on criminal grounds, contact the FBI.

Comment by tim howard (Guest)

tim howard (Guest) — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:01:05 +0000

has anyone file a lawsuit on this yet? i have information pertaining the activity of the site... and would enjoy being part of a class action against them... to whomever sent me there profile.... i thank you .... i had supsitions about the site due only to the fact that i have sent many years on the web and have had some seriously bad experiences..... please keep me informed. again thank you! way cool... =)

Comment by JP (Guest)

JP (Guest) — Sun, 01 May 2005 18:07:18 +0000

Got it on match.com from Just Janessa. She mentions finduslove as well. The profile was so poorly written, that I figured something was up. The finduslove business lead me here after a Google search. Fortunately, I didn't get scammed out of any money but I did waste some time writing up a reply.

Oh well. It seems online dating can suck just as bad as offline LOL

Comment by Justin Kennedy (Guest)

Justin Kennedy (Guest) — Sun, 01 May 2005 13:39:10 +0000

Not often I get scammed...but Im guilty of falling for the wink. Damn the luck! Just so you have complete records to use for the BBB I'll give them to ya'll .. be gentle with the flaming. On 4/21/05 received wink on match.com from tryrenee123...again her profile referred to finduslove.com (checked and it still does currently, also saved a copy of page). I signed up at heartdetctives.com for a free profile and just like other peeps said two Emails from Hottbratt and funwithme showed up. Of course I signed up! and lost the $25, oh well easy come easy go. My login on heartdetectives.com was kennedy101 which has now been cancelled. If anyone needs my match.com login for evidence they can email me. Good catch ya'll! Hope this Peter guy gets his butt in jail! Even better I hope match.com files charges!!! --justin

The Finduslove Scam Revealed!

Ken — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:23:23 +0000

A lot of folks have been Googling to find out information about a dating web site called "finduslove". Well, I've got the dish here, and I'm posting it as a public service. (Originally posted March 30th. I'm reposting to keep it on the front page, since people are still searching for it.)