This is such a massive scam on the level I haven't seen before. FilipinoCupid has been a complete waste of money! First of all, you have to pay for everything and the costs are exorbitant. Then you have to sift through bunch of bots. Finally, 15 out of 16 women I interacted with either asked me for money for rent and phone or wanted to give me the "financial consultation" pressing me to invest money into some kind of "innovative project". They have a new approach to scam on FilipinoCupid, but it's still ridiculous!
The company uses an auto renewal feature that defaults back to YES auto renew me after you make your purchase even after you select No at time of purchase. This is a tactic that they have used in the past and when I called them out on it they did a credit to my card but once again they pulled the same thing and I did not realize it until about 10 days after they auto billed me. I demand they credit my card but refused and their excuse was..."your using the service still". Yes because you keep charging me after I said No auto renewal and you won't turn it off.
This is criminal to change auto renewal behind the backs of the customer. Thugs!
Dear Steven,
For convenience, we automatically renew your membership shortly before it expires so you can continue to use your premium membership without interruption. You may opt-out of auto-renewal at any time in your billing settings at least 48 hours before your membership is due to expire. Please contact www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk for further help.
All the women the I contacted and/or contacted me turned out to be fake. This goes for the "Verified" women as well. One "Verified" women on the site disappeared/deactivated her profile as soon as she got my WhatsApp number. I mean in like 2 minutes. The do not refund money either, not if you sent one like, message, or any other contact, they will not refund. The are a total scam!
This site, while offering some real profiles, is primarily made up of fake profiles. Of the 15 women I 'talked' with, only ONE, that's right ONE was real.
Most of the information is fake, the photos are fake and once you respond to a person the scam begins. It can be a family crisis, or using a specific travel agency, or some other means to separate you from your money.
Spread the word that this site is a rip-off
FilipinoCupid is the largest Filipino dating site with over 3.5 million members. We do not allow fake profiles on our site. Our fraud prevention team works 24/7 to remove non-genuine profiles. If you would like to report a suspicious profile, please submit a ‘report abuse’ form or contact us at www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk
I just use the app yesterday, the same day my profile was temporarily suspended. They want me to upload government issued photo, drivers license, or passport. I don't have that I tried school ID But it's not working. I don't know how should I reactivate it I don't even know whom to ask.
I see many profiles of filipinas working in China. I contacted 1 of them she said ist not possible to meet there but a Chinese travel agency can make Visa for her to come to Europe? I think thats very strange
Anybody has same experience?
Hello Gerhard,
We take the safety of our members seriously. Please visit http://www.onlinedatingsafetytips.com/ for comprehensive guides to keeping yourself safe while searching for your perfect match.
I could not believe the number of scammers on this site. I did meet one very beautiful young girl and dated her for a few months. But the whole thing is 98% a waste of time. So many phony profiles and scam artists. This is the scammiest such site I've encountered. But it does have good selection tools so you can find exactly what you're looking for if you're willing to spend lots of time at it and keep a healthy cynical attitude
Hi David,
We have zero tolerance towards members of the nature you described. Our fraud prevention team works 24/7 to remove non-genuine profiles. If you would like to report a suspicious profile, please submit a ‘report abuse’ form or contact us at www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk
The site is only there for one reason: making money without any effort.
This site contains hundreds of women who's only interest is to ask you money for their: rent, school, food, burials, electricity bill, load for their phone, doctor bills, hospital bills, wifi you name and I have seen it.
But besides that you have the African scammers which can be so easily spotted once you know but FilipinoCupid.com doesn't do anything to track them down even though the use the same pattern to scam people.
But the worst part is when a bimbo files a complaint which is always sustained by filipinocupid. In that case you can be sure that they will block you for as long as they like while your account isn't working anymore. And forget about refunds! And don't think that they will answer your complaints they will send you the same automated e-mails over and over agagin. They are just scammers driven by other scammers! RUBBISH
Dear Bart,
We do not facilitate the activities that you are suggesting in any shape or form. We have been in business for almost 20 years and have millions of customers around the world. We have a dedicated profile moderation team that works 24/7 to remove disingenuous profiles. We also use advanced safety technology to detect any behaviour that doesn't meet our community standards. In addition, we rely on our members to help us improve the dating experience for everyone, so if you encounter members that violate our standards, please submit a ‘report abuse’ form or contact us at http://www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk.
Never mind if there are fake accounts or not. The real issue is how poorly the site is run. They don't answer their messages. Images do not match the appropriate thumbnails. Profiles updates are slow or never happen. Deleted images still show in profile. Clicking thumbnail displays different images. So many issues and problem. But worse, trying to get those issues solved is impossible since Cupid does not reply to your messages.
Hi Jack,
We are sorry you have experienced this. Please contact www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk so we can investigate the issue and assist you further.
After 3 month I talk with a lot of girls from FC but all... In really mean ALL... are only for games, or ask to send money for different reasons, my experience on that site is a very unpleasant one! Beautiful girls are using fake photos and admin don't do anything to stop these phenomena! My advice is to go on China Cupid or Thai Cupid! Leave Filipina alone. Not worthed to waste time with these girls!
I signed up and got between 80-100 likes within a day or two, but only about 7 had looked at my near-empty profile, alarm bells!
Then all those that did message me wanted my WhatsApp, Skype, email or Google hangout straight away, alarm bells! The one or two that did stay on the site to talk started the sob story after about 6 messages. Unfortunately, you are like a bucket of chum in a shark tank, even with the age-appropriate profiles!. I have no idea how the site can police this. To report someone you need evidence and that is why the profiles want to move off the site and on to something like whatsapp asap. If you ask them to stay on the site, they say something like, 'I don't use this site much' or 'am not on it that often'. Funny that, because they seem to be on it a lot? If you do sign up, well good luck.
Dear Terry,
We apologize for your unwelcoming experience. We have zero-tolerance towards members of the nature you described. Unfortunately, it is extremely hard for us to verify the real intentions of the members as most dating sites do not require any form of formal identification to register and most members use their private email addresses to communicate with members.
It is very sad that a small minority of dishonest people will make such a negative impression of our site, as the vast majority of the members registered with us are honest.
We do our best to remove these people from our site, deleting any profiles showing dubious photos or information, as soon as we see them, however, we also rely on our valued members who kindly report to us any suspect or fake profiles they find on our site.
I signed up for a free account today. I went through the effort of completing my profile and adding pictures. I tried to make use of the 1 hour free. Tried to log in 6 hours later to see if I got any responses and all I got was this message:
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Profile Terminated
Your profile has been terminated and cannot be reactivated.
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I've been a member of blossoms.com on and off for over 2yrs. People write cupid has many scammers, blossoms seems to have very few Filipino scammers (don't think I've met any).
I emailed filipinocupid to find out why they terminated my account and got no response.
Dear Andy, Please email us on team@filipinocupid.com with your member I. D and email address that you used to register your profile so that we can assist you further.
Shocking website totally full of girls scamming for $$ and trying to get you to join a partner site as well so you can "see them". Seriously it's a total waste of time so please don't bother.
I assure you any pretty girl you contact will soon come back asking you to join other sites which of course you need to pay for the privilege.
The site was ok many years ago but after re-joining recently it's obvious it's full of scammers. Sad but true
8.7% positive feed back in the last year.
That's pathetic isn't it.
Why?
Whats the point. You develop a reputation and then you're a joke.
Pay for a month and judge for yourself. The rep will read a review and give the same form letter explanation so that's not even real
Dear Randy,
Were there any specific concerns that caused you to give the app a negative review? If you have any concerns, we would love to help you with them. Please contact us at www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk
Most unverified posts with attractive people are fake and will ask for money. Although the site "permanently" deleted many they are back the next day
One to stay away from is Jacky Erpa user name Erpa. She has issued death threats and the site deleted 2 profiles but is back and they no longer take action. The site even verified photoshopped IDs of many people. For a free subscription it's entertainment to hear all the lies and scams but don't pay for this site ever
Dear Jack,
We do not facilitate the activities that you are suggesting in any shape or form. We have been in business for almost 20 years and have millions of customers around the world. We have a dedicated profile moderation team that works 24/7 to remove disingenuous profiles. We also use advanced safety technology to detect any behavior that doesn't meet our community standards. In addition, we rely on our members to help us improve the dating experience for everyone, so if you encounter members that violate our standards, please submit a ‘report abuse’ form or contact us at http://www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk.
I was on this site for one day and they suspended my profile. For what they couldn't tell me. Next thing I know they're asking for my Drivers License or Passport to unlock my profile. Who in their right mind would give this site that information. Plus, they read your private messages to other members. Most of the girls tried to get me to use WhatsApp, now I know why. Buyer Beware!
Dear Dorian,
We are sorry that your profile was removed, please contact us here: www.FilipinoCupid.com/en/help/helpdeskIn order to prevent fraudulent payments on our websites, our billing department reviews certain transactions. For some transactions, we require additional verification to prove that the person making the transaction is authorized to do so. Contact us for further assistance.
FC has no bad intentions but people in this site are full of hate and bad intentions. Filipina are kept doing scams and dudes from abroad are disrespecting even the decent women. Guys remember you only have the right to disrespect if one person did bad thing to you. But if you disrespect someone which is decent and has no bad intention. Then maybe you have your own emotional baggage which makes your heart bitter. I am a member and I found sincere friends but nowadays many dude from there are disrespecting me. Well that's their problem and not mine. I still have my pride and dignity.
Please watch out for this girl and the so called family or gang members. The girl will trick you to buy laptop with wifi, then making excuse for no wifi for video. Then the family will invite you and ask you to pay for throwing the non-existing party. The grant entrance is for travel agent to fake the passport and asked for agent fee to get Visa for her. Then the father will ask for money to sort the mess. All the photos enclosed including family photo and forge documents. The two photo showing a girl crying are the actual person talking to you.
Dear Steven,
We are sorry that you have encountered non-genuine members on our app, we have zero tolerance toward these members. Our fraud prevention team works 24/7 to remove non-genuine profiles. If you would like to report a member, please submit a ‘report abuse’ form or contact us at www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk
Dec. 2013, Cupid Media Ltd which owns Philippine Dating, Asiandating.com and over 35 other dating websites, admitted in court to the Australian Privacy Commissioner that personal data had been sold to hackers and was found on the hackers server, Cupid said, Some of the names and profiles listed do not relate to real persons. Meaning Cupid fabricated fictitious profiles to lure the customer in.
I joined a number of the Cupid sites and was suspended within 48 hours on all of them. They claimed that they needed an identification document from me and that my account was suspended due to some doubts regarding my identity. I duly provided the document and remain suspended. The worst service I have ever experienced from any dating site.
Dear Pedro,
We apologize for the difficulties you experienced while using our app. If you would like some assistance or additional information, please contact us via https://www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk and we will be happy to help you further.
Answer: Our fraud prevention team works 24/7 to remove non-genuine profiles. If you would like to report a member, please submit a ‘report abuse' form or contact us at www.FilipinoCupid.com/en/help/helpdesk
Answer: We are sorry that your profile was removed, please contact us here: www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk
Answer: Sign up today we have promo throughout the year you can look forward to as a member.
Answer: We also have very many success stories you can refer to.
FilipinoCupid has a rating of 1.7 stars from 186 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with FilipinoCupid most frequently mention fake profiles, credit card and travel agency. FilipinoCupid ranks 74th among Asian Dating sites.
Dear Ron'
We apologize for your unwelcoming experience. We have zero-tolerance towards members of the nature you described. Unfortunately, it is extremely hard for us to verify the real intentions of the members as most dating sites do not require any form of formal identification to register and most members use their private email addresses to communicate with members.
It is very sad that a small minority of dishonest people will make such a negative impression of our site, as the vast majority of the members registered with us are honest.
We do our best to remove these people from our site, deleting any profiles showing dubious photos or information, as soon as we see them, however, we also rely on our valued members who kindly report to us any suspect or fake profiles they find on our site.
In addition, Our fraud prevention team works 24/7 to remove non-genuine profiles. If you would like to report a suspicious profile, please submit a ‘report abuse’ form or contact us at www.filipinocupid.com/en/help/helpdesk