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thierry L.

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5 Reviews by thierry

  • A Foreign Affair

3/1/24
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I requested the assistance from Loveme.com regarding one profile. I was in contact with one of their profile Dan Yan ID *******. On her profile she claims to be a plastic surgeon in Shanghai from China. She contacted me at first the 15 Dec 2023. The 29 Dec she told me " I work as a surgeon in a hospital in the Orlando area in USA. And yes, I do have a house in France, which I visit occasionally. "

I went 3 times on internet and I found nobody who operate as a surgeon plastic with such a name. And I verified all the pictures listed and registered as a surgeon in Orlando.

I requested them to investigate her as she has another profile here: https://www.zendate.com/en/people/#*******. Zendate.com was Asiandate.com owned by the group Anasatasia.com. So I was surprised that Loveme.com share a lot of profiles with Anastasia.com. One Zendate she contacted me also and repeated she was in USA. It was the first red flag.

They sent me a short video from the woman where she explains she is in china so no explanation why she wrote me twice she was working in USA and she was showing her ID but too far away to read something. Second red flag

She wrote me last time in January and refused a Skype call. I called Loveme several time, sent them many emails for assistance and recently I even requested a refund twice but all the time they promise me to send a communication to China...3 months almost and I lost 100 dollars for nothing. Third red flag.

Claimed loss: 100 dollars

Desired outcome: Please refund my account

Tip for consumers:
No more real customer service, fake solution to solve the problems.

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  • Ukrainian Fiancee Marriage Agency

2/15/24

In 2022 I requested for the first time to UFMA if I could request a personal contact from a woman because it was not possible to fly to Ukraine due to the war and I wanted to be sure that I wouldn't start a remote relation with no happy ending and possible real meeting. Sergey replied me and said yes it was possible to get it during a Skype conversation. In October 2023 the lady Rita contacted me for the first time and I was surprised as she is probably one of the most gorgeous woman of this dating website. We started to write each other with very personal letters and showers of beautiful pictures. In December 2023 I wanted to move forward and I proposed to Rita a Skype video call. She refused as she was far way from one UFMA office.
-I was sad as it was a first red flag according to the checklist given by many reviews online about romance scam. After a few weeks of messages it's been recommended to have a first video chat to verify if the woman is real and see her reaction toward you. I was disappointed and started to be suspicious. Sergey advised to watch her video on YouTube made 5 years ago to see her on real and to heard her voice.
-Second red flag most of the woman have a profile for more than 4 years. How so many beautiful women keep available online for years and years. But I followed Rita proposition to have a voice Skype conversion. Sergey reassured me that I could ask her personal contact during the call. I waited because UFMA were busy for holidays and in January 2024 Sergey contacted me back to plan a Skype call. At the end of the 30 minutes conversion translated by Sergey I asked Rita to share contacts and she agreed. Sergey instructed me to send her a message on his website( more 10 dollars to send my phone number). The 7th February Sergey confirmed he has passed my contact to her, (one week later) she also confirmed answering my message on UFMA website that she got my number and she sent me big kisses without giving her phone or any personal contact.
-Third red flag. A woman who accept to share contact and the agency making you wait forever to get it.
-Fourth red flag. Why I paid 44 dollars for a Skype call and just after 8 dollars for a message to give her my phone number. Why Sergey didn't give online my number during the Skype call. More credits spent for nothing.
UFMA team answered me to my assistance request that they will talk to her twice.
- Sixth red flag. Sergey refused my refund request arguing they don't guarantee that a woman will provide contacts even if twice they told me something else.
-Last red flag. Sergey almost insulted me by email. I quote: "hey, I will make sure to put you in the blacklist of the marriage
Agencies, so you can't waste anyone's more time.
You are a cheap man and you can never find a woman in Ukraine, maybe
Some old crazy donkey can become your wife, you should try that."

So to resume I lost 86.06 euros and Rita never contacted me through my number( I offered 3 ways to contact me) and what I got it's plenty of emails from UFMA to buy some gifts, support Ukraine, give vitamines, buy virtual gifts and credits for pictures for all the special events. I am sad today about the lack of a real assistance and the lack of transparency and the lack of respect to all the answers they sent to their customers through internet.

Tip for consumers:
Women with a profile for more than 5 years. Lies when they reply to your requests assistance. Lot of pictures joined with the message that makes everything very expensive. Many bad reviews and complaints about some women and UFMA services. First time I am almost insulted by an Ukrainian agency.

  • Ukraine Brides Agency

10/30/23

Good morning. I decided to bring more évidences that ukrainebridesagency.com is a complet scam. After to find out that most of the women are on another websites and almost all the time online during more than 4 hours per day I came to the conclusion their ladies are working for the dating agencies in order to make you spend a lot of money. Some women are single during months and even years and they chat everyday online with more that 20 guys and read more that 100 letters. Do you think a normal person spend hours online looking for a soulmate without sleeping or working? Oh Yes they work for the agencies, some are even married.
Ekaterina sent me a few messages, and booking chat with me even if I was not replying so I used the pictures she gave me to make an inverted search image. Guess what she is also on the famous and serious website, irony of course, named goldenbride.net. A place using a lot of porn models's pictures to create fake profiles. Do the job guys with google and you won't be surprise. So the woman Ekaterina owns also a professional page on Instagram where she seems living a luxury life with a team making nice pictures. I was surprise that a model decided to contact me so I requested assistance to the customer service from ukrainebridesagency.com. Here is their answer, I quote:
Dear,
The lady Ekaterina (SPRING_IN_SOUL) informed us that you continue
To look for ways to contact her outside the site, stalking her and also writing to her friends.
Lady Ekaterina doesn't respond to you on social media, because she knows that this is a violation of the site rules, for which the profile can be removed from the site.
Also, if a lady doesn't communicate with you for any reason, that's her choice, which you should respect.
If you are interested in a lady, you could continue communicating with her on the site.
We also received information from other ladies, with whom you started communicating on our site, that you offered to communicate with them on Instagram. We have already warned you that trying to find ladies on social media, and attempts to establish communication with them outside the site in this way, considered to be the violation of the site rules.
Therefore, based on the history of your activity, the site administration decided to delete your profile from the site.
Unfortunately, our services are no longer available to you.

Kind regards
Administration of the site

It is this true that I offered during a chat to use Insta instead of wasting hundred of dollars but I am surprise that these girls reported me( old regime there, humour). Good luck guys still wanting to use this website. First time on my life I am treated like that….the mafia is not far away. It's not me saying this but Google.and YouTube

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Keith G. – Ukraine Brides Agency Rep

Hello Thierry,
As the administration of the site, we would like to give a public reply to your review, as what you are saying is not exactly what happened. You try to enlighten yourself in a good way, but the problem starts with your actions.

Your profile on our site was deactivated because you violated the guidelines of our site.

Thierry, you have joined UBA by your own free will.
The fact that our site is not free is not a secret. That information is available for our users before the registration. That is your right to accept it or not. You joined the site which means that you saw it and still decided to proceed.
The thousands of $ are not spent. As you say, you could use the free resources and try to find lady there, but you decided not to.

Upon registration, you agreed with the Terms & conditions, rules of usage of our site. That means that you have agreed not to exchange the contact details in chats or letters, not to search ladies' private pages on social networks. That is considered as a violation of the rules of the site.

By one of the photos you found the lady's private page on Instagram, contacted her, broke the rules of the site. She didn't reply you, but recognized you and advised us of that case.
You have received a letter with a reminder of the rules of the site.
Despite that case, after it, you continued talking to other ladies on the site, trying to do the same with them. They complained us about words and actions.

You also didn't stop the attempts to contact the lady Ekaterina through her pages on social networks. You contacted her friends, stole and used her photos. She never gave you permission for the usage of her private data, that is not even legal. The actions from your side led to her not wanting to continue talking to you.

If you wanted to have the lady's personal details, you should have asked her agreement and point of view, through the conversation on the site, then making the official request to exchange the details. You decided everything instead of the lady and made even more, logically the lady got worried. Such actions are not normal and if someone did that to you, you would definitely be upset about it.

The word "scam" is used by you without the understanding of the correctness of the definition. Scam is a financial benefit. In the case of the lady Ekaterina you searched for the benefits, not her.

Our site doesn't have and never had any financial relationship with ladies. The ladies are not paid by us for communication with men. The proofs of that do not exist.
The ladies come to UBA because they know we are a trusted resource with serious men and ladies. We have a lot of happy couples throughout many years of work, who meet each other on our site after some time of communication through different services.

We wish you all the best in your search.

  • BeHappy2day

10/21/23
Verified purchase

Hello guys. If you are using an online dating platform, make sure to look out for signs that the woman you're talking to is actually a scammer:
1-Scammers tend to move very quickly in terms of trying to establish an emotional connection. Within a short period, they may say they love you and that they feel a very deep connection to you. Be on your guard if they call you 'dear' or 'sweetie' up front. Using pet names right away could indicate that a scammer is trying to hastily forge an emotional connection.
2-Despite they have a nice computer or a new smartphone( my new IPhone is broken.), there will always be an excuse why they can't meet in person or show themselves on camera. They say they live overseas or somewhere remote, or their technology isn't working.
3-Thanks to Google Image you can search for a presence online as everybody is using social medias. So another bad sign is when their online profile doesn't match what they tell you about themselves.( A women told me that she loved me and wanted to live with me in the second message in the first week).
4-BeHappy2day claims to be legitimate but is actually filled with scammers or underpopulated. Be aware they can mine your information.( Use Google Image to verify the pictures are not owned by someone different from the woman in contact with you. If you are lucky you would be able to chat on social medias with the real ones and confirm that it is a scam. I could talk with a few women outside of BeHappy2day and realized that a lot of their profiles are completely fake.
5-Their Profile Contents are Too-Good-To-Be-True. ( Doctor, Businesswoman, Rich, Virgin, Good in bed, willing to be your slave.)
6-Automated Conversations. To make the most out of their so-called "market", most scammers use automated messages to fool multiple individuals simultaneously. They even don't answer your questions or are not carrying about your family or job.very strange conversations sometimes.
7-Fake profiles use daring photos of a person (a model mostly, some porn models also).
A good number of these fake profiles will send limited and racy photos that are taken from pornographic material. The worst part is when these scammers ask their victims for payment if the latter asks for more photos.(10 credits for more pictures or videos here).
8-One of the most common tactics used nowadays is getting the man to be interested in a girl who always lives far away so there is no real chance of a real meeting. Then the girl will say they want to video chat instead, but of course they are really a webcam girl, and it will cost money to be able to chat with them. (30 credits for a 30 minutes chat here). Some women are almost 4 to 8 hours online to catch you when you sign in. Some women have the same profil in 2 or 3 websites so they are for sure working for the dating websites. Who would spend eight hours seven days a week online? Don't worry they would schedule a chat with you to be sure you'll spend more money.
9-While being a little nervous for someone you've been talking to online for months is normal, it's not normal to avoid video chatting or another way of communication outside of the website at all costs after your relation reached a certain level.
10-FBI Warns of Criminals Using Online Dating Sites to Target Victims and Recruit Money Mules…I am tired to heard that poor people have this only way to win money in some friend countries.
11-Sister-jewels websites. Yes I found a copy of BeHappy2day website www.onewife.com with a lot of similarities( just change the name, a few colors….)Take a look if you are interested to understand where you are.
12--No real anti-scam policy. Even if BeHappy2day claims to fight scams and try to protect you it's never their fault is something goes wrong. I sent them some evidences about a few women using pictures stolen on social medias and porn blogs or websites. The customers service never removed these profils and refused to admit a problem was existing.
I quote here BeHappy2day "You may recognize a scam if a user falsifies her personal profile's details deliberately, for example: name, age, children, language level or marital status. We will thoroughly investigate the case, and delete the user from our database.
A user's profile is used by a third party, without the user's awareness (for example, an agency uses the user's profile without her knowledge to communicate with you). We will thoroughly investigate the case, and fine and/or ban the affiliate partner that initiated the scam activity on our website."
So I my case BeHappy2day didn't respected their own anti-scam policy.

Conclusion: The anti-scam policies not respected and the came girls pushing you to spend more money with a lot of messages, costly chat invitations, not free pictures, no real messages are a red flag for me. I consider that BeHappy2Day is a real scam. I join a copy of a fake profil using pictures from a real model already in a relation. Don't waste your time, money and feelings...we only live once.

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  • Brides and Lovers

5/6/23

They use a well known two jewel websites system. After to fill in a profile as a free member you get many interest and messages. After paying for one month I tried to contact all the women I was interested in and sent me one interest or a message. One was a scammer as She invited me to communicate on WhatsApp and requested me money. They removed her as I sent Screenshot to Bridesandlovers but she tried to contact me on Ukrainiandating the jewel website. You get many messages and when you reply most of the women keep offline and never come back so you waste your time replying to women with who you have no chance to build a relation. Of course you get more messages from the second website to make you pay for a second plan. Ok they removed the first scam but you have too many profiles who login for one day and never come back or sent you one interest or a message and never reply a second time. Too many hello from Ukraine, hello from Russia and nothing more. My mail box was full of notification for nothing. And some women are single for 5 years with profiles on 10 websites ( thank you google image) and are very, very attractive...

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thierry Has Earned 12 Votes

Thierry L.'s review of BeHappy2day earned a Very Helpful vote

Thierry L.'s review of Ukraine Brides Agency earned 9 Very Helpful votes

Thierry L.'s review of A Foreign Affair earned 2 Very Helpful votes

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Joseph C. thanked you for your review of Ukraine Brides Agency

“I too was entangled with this lady... "personal" photos almost always taken by a third party photographer...It really seems that the majority of women profiles are "shills' paid by the parent company.”

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