ChristianMingle

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

I have had the WORST online dating experience on this "Christian" site. I would NOT wish this experience on anyone else going forward that's why I'm taking my time to write this review. I joined Christianmingle.com for about a week, i had posted a couple of photos and they all got approved and verified. My profile was set and legit. I began chatting with a few gentlemen but upon login out I couldn't login. I desperately contacted the Christian mingle team via email and got a response from a certain Karol Kowalski.

This individual explained to me politely and i quote: "my account was flagged as possibly fraudulent and that in an effort to protect my security and privacy they have suspended my profile". This individual further stated that they'll be needing my account details (full names, display name, date of birth, present location and email address) to verify my authenticity. I was willing to even make a video call to confirm i am real, and i exist so i provided every detail they asked. In a separate reply this individual further asked for a photo of my National Identity card. You can imagine how invasive this information is, but i really just wanted to login to delete my pictures and deactivate my account personally, so i complied.

At this point it finally dawned on me what was going on, Christian mingle team had no plans of releasing my account. In fact, they were NEVER going to release my account at all.

This was all a scheme, they secure accounts of legitimately existing people, take over the accounts running them to scheme money off innocent people.

PLEASE I BESEECH you, do not fall for this trap. My account is now stuck in this site probably scheming off someone from a 1st world country or who knows who.

If you're planning to join this site, DON'T. Kindly, LEARN FROM ME. You will meet the love of your life on a more legitimate setting.

Take care and God bless!

The BBB gave the site an F rating. Please look up. The website would not let me terminate my membership and kept putting me in a loop. It's almost impossible(or impossible) to get a hold of an administrator when you need help. It turned out to be a nightmare. Actually more than that, I consistently ran into men who were wolves in sheep's clothing. I'm amazed men are willing to spend money to go on a Christian dating site to hunt Christians so to speak. I ended up being totally traumatized by men who seemed more like they should be on another dating site looking for sex. A free one at that but chose to pay money to be on Christian Mingle to meet women who want godly marriages. The bible says if the devil can disguise himself as an angel of light why can't his workers. I paid for a 6 month subscription but had my bank block Christian Mingle from taking out any automated renewals fees. I couldn't get into the settings on Christian Mingle to delete my credit information in addition to terminating my account. It kept me going in circles trying to get in. My advice is to try a safer site like EHarmony or a Christian Match maker ( if that even exists) Always pray first that God would lead you in the right direction. Their is also a prayer on-line about praying against counterfeit spouses for Christians. Just look up prayers against counterfeits. I read this prayer at least 5 times one day. The next time I did a telephone video with this man I met on CM his true intentions came out. He wanted sex and his Christian walk was weak or non-existent but he came across as a sincere man of God in his profile. I'm glad that prayer helped nip it in the bud. Both Christian men and women really need to be careful going on these sites. Be wise as a snake and innocent as a dove. God Bless.

There's a reason why Christian Mingle has such a horribly low rating. The website is a total ripoff, especially for the amount of money they charge for a paid membership! I paid $49 + tax for a 1 month membership. There are so many catfish on Christian Mingle that you'll think you're at the Cajun Catfish Buffet in Louisiana. I have a theory that CM creates fake profiles of very attractive people themselves, and sends you smiles while you're a free member just to make you think that "person" is interested in you so that you'll pay the fee to become a paid member, and then these crooks delete the fake profile after they've gotten your money. This is almost EXACTLY what happened to me. I had a very attractive woman that had two photos on her profile send me a smile (you can send a "smile" for free). I did a Google and Bing image search of her photos and neither search engine showed any signs that those photos were being used on another site. So, I paid the ripoff $50 membership fee for a 1 month membership and sent this woman a message introducing myself. Well, 2 days go by and "she" doesn't log in. Finally, on the 3rd day, I went to her profile to see if she logged in yet and, lo and behold, the profile page is still visible, but both of her photos are gone and all her information was deleted! Total scam! If you think that's an isolated incident, think again. I messaged another "woman" who only had one photo on her profile. Did an image search and the search engines didn't show her photo being used on any other websites. So far, so good. I sent her a nice message. She replied without answering ANY of the questions in my message and just said "I am new to this website. If you do not mind talking on WhatsApp. *******635". Well, I created a new contact in WhatsApp with her phone number, and what do ya know, her WhatsApp profile doesn't even show a photo. In fact, it shows a storefront icon instead of a person icon leading me to believe that it's a fake number for a fake business. Christian Mingle is a complete joke! Do yourself a favor and spend your money at a dating site that has much better reviews. Trust me, you'll thank me later! Oh, and I uploaded photos to show you proof.

I've subscribed to several of the top rated dating sites, and CM was listed on everybody's top 10 sites.
Well, needless to say, I was very disappointed.
I asked for a full refund after the 1st weekend of joining, because there were only a handful of members with photos, but hundred or thousands of anonymous users with zero pics. They all had the same user name beginning with mingler_*****, or a series of letters and numbers after the mingler identification.
They were scattered throughout the U.S., and most would send me a smile while I was online. I was getting fed up with these constant inbox messages, which were simply phishing ploys to extort $$ from other legitimate members. I sent them an email about the info, but all I got was a response apologizing for my bad experience.
I would bet that these phishes are able to join without a membership fee, and help bolster their membership numbers too. If they were a professional and actual Christian caring site, they would take measures to correct this problem. I would also bet that most subscribers don't renew, and another problem is with the cancellation of their auto-renewel process. After trying multiple times to follow the online "Stop Subscription", I not only failed to accomplish the task, there wasn't even a tab visible to tap for that process. What a joke, what a scam, what a Total ripoff!

I am strong Christian woman and had seen many commercials for this website so I thought I would try it. Here is why people should beware and read all the reviews, not just mine, before signing up!
I was only on this website for about 5 days before they were sending me "Alerts" regarding some of the profiles that were posted on the website! Scary! ** These were men that they were warning me about but they still had their profiles uploaded on the website!
I started communicating with 2 men, not the ones they were warning me about. The profiles of these 2 men sounded as though we might have something in common. The first one immediately wanted to meet with me. I said let's talk first. I thought it strange that his profile pic showed him running on the beach but it looked like there was an arm of someone else that was obviously with him, but the body was being blocked out. I continued to text with him, not wanting to judge the pic, alone. We texted back and forth and he sent me 2 more pictures. One showed him with Santa and two elves, but HE WAS WEARING A WEDDING RING! The second picture was showing him with his arms folded and his right hand showing but he blocked out his left hand completely! As a photographer, I could tell it was definitely done purposely by the way he was posed! I asked him when the pics were taken and he said recently! What a scammer!
I had a funny feeling about him but wanted to text and see if my instincts were just me being cautious or if they were legitimate. Well, the Lord is good and is watching over me! Thank you, Jesus!
When I texted him and told him that I saw his ring, he never texted back. Go figure! LOL
Second, another gentleman I was communicating with had a very nice pic and profile. His profile was very articulate. However, after texting with him I realized that he was not articulate at all, and that his texts bordering on being somewhat illiterate. Right away I realized someone else must have written his profile or maybe he copied someone's profile to be his own.
***This website is NOT for the person who is looking for a truthful relationship or for a website that truly vets the profiles, before putting them online! And, they charge you if someone wants to communicate with you and you want to communicate back! If they are going to charge you, what are they using those profits for if not for properly vetting the online profiles!? Not the website for me!
*I prefer not to upload the picture of the person with the wedding ring, although I would like to expose their identity, because I don't want any repercussions!

Terrible, and site doesn't work - goes off-too slow- repeats itself a night mare... should not be allowed to operate.

I was a 35 year old virgin, and not the stereotype. Won "best looking" in HS, captain of the college swim team, working at NASA (seriously)… but my childhood girlfriend (later fiancé) wanted to wait till marriage, and so i hadn't had much choice as i loved her. When she was pregnant 5 months before the wedding, i was stranded a virgin for YEARS. Absolutely no girl would date me after she found that out. Many got violent, even. But constant offers to hookup, which i declined. I wasn't a toy. And after all that i'd been through… it seemed a gift someone would value. My ace in the hole. Wrong.

Finally i met a girl on christian mingle. A church worship leader. Gorgeous, divorced, no kids, and didn't mind that i hadn't been with anyone. Perfect. 7 months we dated and i'd already called home for the box of jewelry that tradition held I should design her ring from. After 7 months we finally slept together. She'd convinced me she wasn't going to do what i feared most. A hit and run after years of turning down hookups.

Sure enough, the next morning as I drove home, she texted me and dumped me. She was at her fiancé‘s apartment already. Turned out she was engaged, but had"f*** a virgin" on her bucket list, and I was just the cutest one she'd ever met. She threaten the police if I ever returned. I wentto the police myself and reported "rape by coercion", a thing in texas where typically a boy promises a girl marriage and rainbows, has sex with her, then dumps her in the side of the road. No different here. But…they laughed at me and kicked me out the pricinct. I went home and hung myself. Unsuccessfully, obviously. But, there's always next time.

*photos show the profile, and the church program i found online later with her real last name, showing her and her dude at a whole other church

When I sign up for Christian Mingle after a couple of minutes, I checked my profile picture it stated my picture was pending review, the next morning I checked, and my picture was still pending review. I loge out and tried to loge back on the site but I could not loge back in it kept saying Authentication failed so I emailed Christian Mingle they said that I had been suspended due to suspicion of fraud…I did not do anything Fradley or violate any of their rules. I had not been on that site a full 10 minutes. I DID NOT DO ANYTHING BUT DO MY PROFILE AND ADD MY PICTURES. Christian Mingle lock me out completely. I can't delete my profile or pictures. It's not accepting my email or password. I know I am using the right email and password. I didn't violate any of their rules or anything Fradley. I think it's a scam website and they keep your pictures and profile on the website to make people think there are more people on the site than there is. In the email they emailed me back they ask for your state ID. I am not sending them that. I asked Christian Mingle to please delete my profile.

I have been on ChristianM for 6 weeks. I was contacted by 5-6 men in the first weeks. Red flag, they started right in using words like "intrigued", "knowing you would be my greatest desire", "extra spark in my step" "thought about you all night", "you look charming and stunning and is hardly to get my eyes you" (the actual bad use of English) and "wrap our legs together". They want to go to email immediately and from there they ask for your phone number and more pictures. It seemed at least 3 of them had the same bad grammar, punctuation, and inappropriate use of capital letters. Here is a cut and paste:

"" Greetings to you, Am William by name. I put God first in anything am doing because he has been a wonderful God to me. Your profile intrigues me so much and i wouldnt mind getting to know you more better. I was in minnesota for work i currently live in prescott AZ. I want you to know that age is nothing but a number, distance also doesnt matter in a relationship if there is chemistry. Do you mind if we exchange emails for better conversation so we can stay connected.""
I got this today soI responded I would like to stay connected on the dating site. An hour later his profile is GONE.

One guy was kicked off the site because I reported him, then he came back on with a different name and sent me the same first letter. He should have recognized me because it had only been a couple days. One man could not make a phone date, he simply didn't understand what "I'll call you at 7:10" meant. He called me at a wrong time and he didn't sound Scottish at all, he sounded African.
I looked up scams and learned these scams are organized, even from West Africa.
I am very disappointed right now, even depressed. After weeding out the scammers
I smiled at a few men, but no one is interested. Perhaps they have been scammed, too. I just hope pictures of me aren't out there somewhere with a false profile attached.
I have met a couple who found each other on the CM. They are in their 80's. What would I have to go through for success? I am a Christian, but the DEVIL has infiltrated that site.

You can sign up for free to look around. Beware that if you don't completely fill out your profile immediately then the people on the site may view your partial info then disregard you, meaning once you complete it they won't take a second look. It also takes several days to get any updates you do to your profile from being posted. I understand as it appears it gets reviewed by their staff first.
My biggest complaint was that the iPhone app is somewhat buggy in that it takes you to a subscription page and wants you to sign up to pay for a premium plan that gets charged monthly or on other renewal terms.
After a couple weeks of using the app i get a message and when i view it it says my profile will be deleted which then takes me to the subscription page again in order to retain my profile. (Note they say you can use the free version with no mention of time before profile deletion etc. The paid version gives you more control and options of contacting people etc.)
When you try to LEAVE the subscription page it keep going back. If you press "cancel" it doesn't leave the page. So I tried to close the app and restart it and when it restarted it went back to the screen and said that i successfully ordered my subscription and was billed via iTunes for $30 and that it will renew each month at $30.
Well I did not authorize this! I called their customer service and got the auto renewal canceled but they said I could not cancel the month paid for and gave me an Apple phone number to call to do that. After spending an hour or so doing all this I still am charged for the month I don't want or authorized.

Now getting to the people on the site, I found that most appear fake or non-christian like. For instance, Im 55 and recently divorced after a long marriage. I find that over half of the women 50-55 on the site are looking for a man that is 35-49. Another words they would like a man between 15 and 5 years younger than them. Some say in the bio that they are serious about the age thing and if you are not within that age to respect their wish and move on. Does that seem Christian like at all? I'm sure there are legitimate people on the site as well and some will pay large fees to stay there waiting for their perfect ideal mate to find them but I have had such a bad experience so far that i am not going to have anything more to do with this.

I was scammed on Christian Mingle by a man calling himself Leonard J. Costa. He claimed to live in Milford, Ohio, be a real estate agent, and have a 12 year old son named Willie. After communicating for over a month, he said that he had to go to Ghana to write a contract to receive gold and dismonds left to him by his deceased father. After arriving in Ghana, he texted and asked for money. He said that Willie was very ill in the hospital, that he had fluid around his heart. Leo claimed that he could not get money in Ghana with his Visa, Mastercard, or cash his travelers check. I sent him money by mistake. He than wanted money again for he and his son to fly to the states so Willie could get treatment. I sent money again. They never showed up and the airport. He called me the next day, and claimed that his son had passed away on the plane. He said that they were not allowed into the states and he was back in Ghana. He said that he needed money for the autopsy. I told Leo that I would not send any more money. He than wanted money to pay for Federal Express to send me a check to the states. I did not send any more money. I found Leo's picture on a scam website. He went by 4 different names and had profiles in 3 different languages. He had me send money to Sylvester Zoranu in Accra-Ghana and Narh Jeremiah in Accra-Ghana. He claimed to be half Italian and had a very thick accent. He wrote long e-mails every morning professing his love for me. He was very good at scamming someone. I am sure that he is still doing this. The other names that he has used in Romance scams are Edward Powell, James Harry, and Fatahian Alain.