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The overall reputation of Ashley Madison is marred by significant customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to the prevalence of fake profiles and perceived scams. Many users express frustration over the high costs associated with the platform, which they feel exploit their desire for genuine connections. While some customers report occasional success in meeting partners, the overwhelming sentiment is negative, highlighting concerns about financial exploitation and inadequate customer support. Despite its established brand presence, the company struggles to address these critical issues, leading to a lack of trust and a recommendation to avoid the service.
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The first 10 minutes I joined the site I had 50 responses from hot women trying to suck up my credits. In my search area page it's shows 95% hot women and about 3 ugly $#*! pathetic looking women. The 3 ugly $#*! ones are the only real profiles. I quickly identified the scammer or bot profiles because they they look exactly the same except with different photos. All 1 photo with titles a man would write and no info about the person. My guess is they write these things fast and in bulk. I paid about $100 for a month and the only enjoyment I get out of the site is playing dumb with the women trying to hustle me until I get bored with them. The biggest red flag is none of them will meet in person but always say "soon". My question is: is AM doing the scamming with their programming or do they turn a blind eye to the scammers that do their dirty work for them so they can sell credits and the scammers get the big payday scamming people out of money or black mailing them. Granted a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then but there needs to be a congressional investigation of AM and other dating sites and shut them all down and fine them with a class action suit.
I have been on this site for almost a year. I found way too many fake profiles and customer service was terrible. They didn't answer me until my 3 rd email. Would not refund any of the credits that I asked for. This is not the same site that it used to be. I heard it was taken over by someone else. That's probably why it turned to crap
Ashley Madison is a large garbage bin. Fake profiles disguised as real people, automated responses disguised as genuine correspondence, and tons of scammers. I was looking for a sugar baby and I met her on AFFlirts.com
After wasting a few weeks on Ashley Madison. I was drawn into conversations with Ashley Madison scammers by highly sexual messages. But don't set your expectations high: no matter how sweet, affectionate or sexual the messages are, they won't get you any closer to a real meet up. These messages are written either by chatbots or con artists. There is absolutely no verification of profiles on AM. The administration doesn't give a damn about customer satisfaction and the integrity of the site.
Worst site ever! I talked to a several 100 people on there. 100% of them used photos from other sites, they were not the real people on the other end. Roughly 60% of them were more interested in scamming you, getting you to invest in crypto or gold or other things…. It is a complete waste of your time and money.
Too expensive for a hook-up service and not really safe. It's nearly impossible to remain anyonymous there. I had a hook up in my city through Ashley Madison and later on that girl tried to blackmail me. AshleyMadison is simply overpriced. It is not worth this money for sure, I wish they could provide higher level of security and anonymity for this money.
The site is a complete money pit. They charge you for every single goddamn thing, and for what? To talk to a bunch of bots? Save yourself time and money and stay away!
Update: tried nostringsaffairs.com instead as suggested here - so far so good.
It is full of male accounts and there is a huge lack of women that's why if you are a man you have nothing to do there. Your messages will most likely just be ignored, because the women are being spammed. I spent nearly 4 months on AshleyMadison and sent about 300 messages. As a result I communicated with only two women who wrote me back. It was a very disappointing and frustrating experience.
AshleyMadison is utterly useless for your personal life and very harmful for your wallet. All of their women are scammers' actresses who are ready to play to get your money. They have no real interest in meeting men. I tried it 4 times and it never worked. No woman would meet for real. It's very difficult to find autehntic women on this platform. Lets face the music: the truth is there are so few women looking for this kind of relationship with men.
Read about the review of hacked data: it revealed that near 100% of the profiles logged on once and then never again. I decided to create a profile named DOODOOMAN, I explained I wanted to poo poo all over you and rub it in your skin. Got over 100 replies and still going strong. One thing that is certain, wink at woman and get a reply at some odd time around 2-5 am. That must be when the bots send out the emails.
This was reported back in June and it's still up. This is just the more obvious one. They have MANY women profiles that are 4ft 8 and 98lbs or 5"10 and 110 pds. I bet most men don't even pay attention to that when they write these people.
I ran two profiles on here, each had a blurred photo of an early 50's male. I was in more demand than water in hell. In 4 days, I got about 40 women interested in me. They often sent the generic greeting, without looking at my profile, but a fair number -1/3 sent request to see my album. They all had these things in common: profiles with no text or a heading of 'HELLO", a few had a 3 word blurb or so, about 2/3 of them were from 1000 miles away, or more. I was getting them from Germany, London, S. Dakota, etc. Only 6 were suppose to be in the LOs Angeles metro. They also were often way off on height and weight, 4ft8 and 70 lbs, 5'8 and 88 lbs, or 5'7 or so and well over 220, that one seems almost believable for online dating. Also many profiles the age didn't match the face--see pic.
In conclusion, it's hard to distinguish Ashley employed fraudsters from just plain fraudsters. A profile with no pictures still get about 10 women wanting to interact. How ya going to prove someone is fraud when you spend $5 to contact them and they never respond or send you a sentence that basically repeats your question. I wasn't willing to pony up $35 this time so, I don't know how they would interact. I have got a 9 rate before and found them to be about as verbal as a retard. Example: Are you overwhelmed with men? 'NO I have not overwhelmed with men". I sent that one 22 more emails about Ashley and fraud, and they never blocked me. That's HIGHLY suspicious, considering they were supposed to be online everyday.
Been on this CRAP site for 3 years. Met 1 lady. Mostly FAKE ads. If you report them, the site administrators do NOTHING. Lots of ads from ladies looking for LONG TERM. The ENTIRE purpose of the site is to have an AFFAIR! Of all the pics that I have ever seen from ladies, supposedly, in Kentucky I have NEVER seen a pic of anyone wearing UK blue. I have NEVER seen anyone even mention the cats. SAVE YOU MONEY guys.
Ashley Madison has been a deeply disappointing and concerning experience for me. I lost nearly $500 due to the overwhelming presence of fake profiles. After spending time on the platform, I identified patterns that strongly suggested the profiles were fabricated—many seemed scripted, with unrealistic behavior. When I reported this to the platform, instead of investigating my concerns, they unfairly banned my account without refunding the credits I had purchased. This website also has paid ratings on other website due to which people are tricked to believe that it's a genuine website.
Adding to the disappointment, the infamous 2015 data breach confirmed that the platform is filled with fake profiles, with only a rare and questionable presence of genuine users. Shockingly, I also encountered fake profiles that shared WhatsApp numbers, only to later attempt to lure me into fraudulent stock and cryptocurrency schemes. This appears to be orchestrated by backend staff, reportedly from an Asian country, who exploit users under the guise of authenticity.
Despite its promises, Ashley Madison fails to deliver any genuine connections. Instead, it seems designed to exploit users financially while exposing them to potential scams. I strongly advise against using this platform—it is a waste of time, money, and trust. Avoid it at all costs.
The site sends you fake messages and then charges you to read and respond to them. I signed up to check it out and within a few days I got some messages from a few "ladies". You need to buy credits to read them so decided to take the chance even though it already looked shady. Anyway, bought some crazy expensive credits to read the messages and reply. 50,- for 100 credits plus a welcome bonus of 100 extra credits. Next to the mandatory "one time mobile access fee" of 20,- so you can read the messages on your phone. Really, in 2024? Moving on. So first of all you pay credits to READ the messages and then also to RESPOND to them! Sending a photo, more credits. Within half an hour half of my credits were gone. And turns out almost all messages were generated by the site itself! Along the lines of "send x a message to see if she is interested". One person who sent a normal looking response has been silent for a while and I am pretty sure she will pop up when I don't have any credits anymore to trick me into buying more! There is no overview to see how much credits everything costs so it's a mystery to know how much bang for your buck you are getting. Only afterwards can you see how quickly you consume credits. Reading a "collect" message (that the site itself generated) 8 credits. Sending photo access, 5 credits. Sending a message, another 8 credits. Crazy expensive and only fake profiles. So in all honesty, the site is absolute crap! Stay away at all cost and don't get tempted!
I met the most mentally ill narcissist "woman" on AM and she ended up being a Santanist and still talking to her ex husband when she said she wasn't. Be careful with the type of people on these sites!
I was contacted by 10 women using Ashley Madison and all 10 were "romance scammers". Some waited 5 minutes to start asking for money some waited a few days but they all were scammers. The site is not worth your time or bucks!
Enjoy opening 3 emails and talking to two girls… just to find out they are bots or hookers… This site is a complete joke. Full of bots and escorts, and they do nothing about it.
Credits are stupid expensive… like 10x more than they are worth, and these people don't even care… Go anywhere else, this place is for suckers…
THIS SITE IS A SCAM. THEY PROMISE CREDITS WHEN YOU PURCHASE, BUT THEN NEVER RECEIVE THEM. THEY ALSO DON'T ALLOW YOU TO WRITE YOUR OWN MESSAGES. TOTAL SCAM
Site is full of scammers! A lot of contacts were far out of town. Made contact with one, Millerz1, who claimed to be from Montreal, then claimed "she" was a wine merchant based in Los Angeles! Turned out to be a bitcoin fraudster. Exercise great caution using this site.
EVERY TIME I SIGN IN IT,S THE SAME PROFILES ON THERE THE FEW WHO RESPOND WANT YOU TO SEND PICTURE,S I ALLREADY HAVE PICTURES IN MY PROFILE IT COST S MORE CREDITS TO SEND PICTURES ALL THEY ARE TRYING TO DO IS GET YOU TO USE UP ALL YOUR CREDITS SO YOU HAVE TO BUY MORE. ILL ADMIT I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR EASY SEX BUT NOT FOR PROSTUTES AS I WOULD NEVER PAY ANY WOMAN MOST WON,T EVEN RESPOND AND MOST ARE UGLY UP HERE IN WA STATE DON,T WASTE YOUR MONEY. ON THIS SITE I AM DOING A CHARGE BACK FOR WHAT I WASTED HERE ERIC3131
I've been using Ashley Madison (AM) for about three weeks now. I live in a moderate sized city and I'm a man seeking a woman. Below are the statistics of efforts.
- Sent messages to 58 different women who live in my area.
- Got replies from four. One of the women initiated contact with me. No responses from the other 54.
- Of the four, one I'm fairly certain was a bot. Got a single rather generically worded response and no other responses.
- One I believe was a scammer so I broke contact with her.
- One seemed legit but we weren't able to advance things very far.
- The one who initiated contact was quite nice but we weren't able to advance things as much as I would have liked. This obviously isn't the fault of AM.
The short version: not a very good success rate. Considering each message costs credits this is an exceptionally expensive way to meet women and odds are you won't actually meet one in person.
The vast majority of the woman profiles appear to either be defunct or are likely fake profiles designed to make the number of women in your area seem higher than it actually is. And to of course cost you expensive credits to message them. Most profiles have no pics and only a minimal amount of information.
I was curious and made a fake woman profile with information similar to my legitimate profile. Same age, interests, and location. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there seem to be many more male profiles than there are female profiles. Furthermore, the vast majority of the male profiles look to be legitimate. They have lots of information including complete bios and photographs. They also seem to be more active. I'm estimating that there are perhaps at least 5 men to every 1 woman. The actual ratio is perhaps much higher than this when factoring in the fake and inactive female profiles. The odds are very much staked against the male users.
Based on my experience I am highly suspicious of AM's claims that it has more female users than male users. When reading other reviews on AM other male users have reported experiences very similar my own.
My advice: if you are a man seeking a woman stay away from AM. There may be a slim chance that you will meet a lady. But ladies seem to be very few and far between here. Your competition will be stiff. And AM will fleece your credit card dearly. If you are a lady, I suspect you will have many options and AM won't cost you a thing.
Absolutely horrible site. Very costly for men to use. Many many many fake profiles. And just as many scammers! I'm single and thought I'd try it. Nothing but scammers/extortion tactics. Do not sign up for membership. A total scam through and through. I wish I could leave ZERO stars.
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Answer: Kind of expensive because they charge by credits. There are cheaper solutions (vm, saphrina, some aff sites)...
Answer: Well, basically you purchase credits and you spend them every time you message someone...
Answer: This site is free for women, which i believe is a big problem. That is why many "professionals" join and try to make you join other sites, cam sites, etc. On sites like vm, saphrina, etc women usually pay as well which is good for the quality of the female profiles. But i guess if you are a woman you should rather join AM.
Answer: The question shouldn't be is it real, but is it worth it. If even one man/woman managed to have an actual affair through Ashley Madison, you could say that it's real. If for every 1 real affair/hookup there are 100's or 1000's of fake users to slog through all the while you're giving them your hard earned money... does that sound like it's worth it?
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