I am certain that the Paid friendly neighborhood customer representative from RussianCupid will swing by with their "We are sorry" remarks to distract others away from their wickedness but let me share my Truthful experiences:

Issues with RussianCupid:
1. I asked them to remove someone from the site which they "claim" they take "very seriously" but Failed to do so. It seems they take "very seriously" lying to you.
2. I get a message from someone on RussianCupid who says they are "very interested" in me. Great and so I decide to message them back. When I message them back I get no response. Absolutely None. So I keep on messaging them back and No Response But their status shows that they are Online and Active. That is a clear sign that there are Fake Profiles at work on the site. Again the lying customer representatives will have you believe otherwise. The lying customer service representative who likes to put their Nasty spin on things will say otherwise or tell you to go talk about this issue with their "Help Desk." No you lying Customer Service Representative I am going to talk about this issue with others in the World and let them see who you All really are.

3. They ask you to pay to read messages sent to you. Fair enough but what has annoyed me is that they encourage you to join their "Other" member sites such as Japan Cupid or Muslima or Thai Cupid or whatever and when you have Paid money to read your letters on Russian Cupid and you Join these other sites and you think that Now your payment will be transferable and will allow you to ALSO Read Other letters on the other sites they Catch you by telling you that you have to Pay to Read letters on Each of the member sites that you are on. Like What the... This made me Angry because I was looking at other member sites and wanted to correspond with others on the other member sites. Plus I was not told that BEFORE that I had to pay separately for Each site they encouraged me to go on. This my friends is called Deceptive Advertisement which Cupid media seemingly is good at.
4. Finally RussianCupid and Cupid Media as a whole is Not 100% Hacker Proof. In 2013 A Hack at Cupid Media exposed more than 42 million passwords, names, Email addresses and birthdays for Hackers to use according to the cybersecurity watchdog site krebsonsecurity. It can happen again and that is the scary and frightening reality where much more can potentially be taken this time. Regardless IF the 2013 issue was resolved or not that a lying customer representative will tell you the fact remains: It Can Happen Again.

Question: Well what about the "Success Stories"? Well what about them? Is Russian Cupid or anyone from the Cupid Media company with Any of these people 24 hours a day? 100% NO. So we don't know if anyone got divorced or separated or died but All we have are pictures on their sites that capture just a moment in time that can change later on. I know of one American guy who married a Russian woman from a dating site and talked about how he was so much "in love" with her but 13 years later he said she was one of the worst people he had ever met because her attitude had turned rotten and he was now divorcing her. There are Success stories that can turn out to be Failure stories later on but we are not here to look at that.

So let us forget the "Success Stories" and look at the functioning of the site. The site is Pretending to function in a Proper way when it is NOT clearly doing so and that is what matters the most.

Note: Expect a Cupid Media representative to Lie being the Paid liars that they are because they do not want to lose their job and say otherwise to calm fears and say "everything is alright" in their usual lying tone or come up with some kind of Excuse but that is what they are being Paid for so remember that. An Excuse is Always Comfort For A Fool. Let common sense prevail and disregard what they are saying. We who have common sense and proper intelligence are waiting on you the friendly neighborhood Cupid Media representative and we will no longer buy into your lies that you want to spread or sell us nor have swallow down our throats.

I have the impression that I am not on a "Online Dating" but at the

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I have been a member there for a longer time and have had mixed experiences - good and bad. The Cupid network contains niche sites for Latin, Asian, African, Russian, Ukraine and International Dating

What I have learned... and I speak from my personal experience and opinion only:
- Many profiles seem to be from real, legitimate women, but many are up only for a short period of time and even less profiles are verified / have the "Verified" seal
- I have made good experience with some ladies and profiles there - have them on FB now or somewhere else. But like on any "open" website with profiles and especially with those in Eastern Europe, there are many fake or not so serious - also women can be time-waisters
- I think it is not possible for the network / service provider to check every profile - but if you report some, unfortunately I had to do so in the past, they act very quickly and strict - these profiles are removed pretty soon
- I met a woman in personal from another dating site who even had 2 Platinum Membership on the network there but was a scammer - BUT after reporting my story she got removed immediately on both sites despite her platinum membership
- dont believe any mail immediately, many profiles are reported within hours and are then removed, disabled, etc
- if a profile has no picture, is new and you get a message you should contact them directly via email --> forget about it, in 99% it is scam. These profiles typically disappear within 24hours
- if a woman looks too good to be true, then be careful and if it is a new profile wait 24hours - if it is still up chances are better
- still sometimes there seem to be profiles who message you or show interest to just have you upgrade your membership - this is a subjective impression though - but this experience I even made on other big global players

Through time I started virtually (unwillingly) testing many online dating platforms and still have my profiles on the network - sometimes only upgrade for a month.

You can cancel your membership right afterwards as it is a recurrent payment but your membership is still active and you can use all features of the choses package.

Conclusion: Like most international dating sites with open registration, there are good and bad ones. Dont judge any in general - just ask yourself if it is realistic. Follow basic rules:
- use your brain and stay realistic
- if it sounds too good to be true it is not true: like a 24yr old playboy model falling in love with you on the second message
- dont fall in love with pictures
- go for Skype or WhatsApp/Viber

As always I say: this is a personal opinion and experience, read them and choose the information you want from it - then, make up your own mind

Like most international dating sites, there are scammers, but there are also some women that are also legitimate.

One woman that contacted me claimed to be a Doctor, recently divorced, going through an amicable divorce with her ex, etc. I became very suspicious so I started asking questions related to her alleged medical practice & where it was located at. As soon as the medical practice questions asked she vanished.

Another woman claimed that she had been a model in Dubai, the pictures she initially sent definitely supported her claim. She told me upfront that she lived in far eastern Russia. I started falling for her, but I still managed to remain under control. After a few weeks of communication and some telephone calls she confessed to me that her modeling career in Dubai was a thing of the past, 3 years ago. In other word, the pictures she had been sending me to seduce me were not recent pictures... RED FLAG.

As time passed and we communicated more I was able to figure out that she had never been in a long term relationship (like greater than 3 years), and she more or less confessed to me that one of her past relationships was with a married man but she didn't find out about it until they were into the relationship.

A very good local friend from the Czech Republic urged me not to rush into making a trip to Russia to go meet the Russian woman. My ex became very ill so that was a second very strong reason to not rush into overseas traveling. I have a good amicable terms w/ my ex because we have shared custody of our daughter.

Although the Russian woman would always be pressing on me to travel somewhere where we could meet, I managed to resist temptation. As we got to know each other through frequent communication, I was able to determine that she probably wasn't exactly suitable for a serious relationship like marriage.

A couple months into the ongoing online friendship she told me she was going to go to South Korea to go for a few months. During one of our communications she slipped and told me that she was going to be working as a Human Relations Manager. Due to my business background, I became very suspicious of her because she had not worked in the past a regular job and she did not finish her college education, also, international management jobs are not created to worked for only a few months.

Later, once she was in SK in a communication she told me that she was living in a facility somewhat distant from her work place, but there were other girls from work also living with her. She mentioned to me that the living facility where she and the girls lived at was pretty crowded, but she could make it through the time she was going to be there.

She also told me that some of the girls were from Russia, but most of the girls were from other countries. Due to the different time zones differences it was hard to keep track of the times at time. A few communication later she mentioned that she would work sometimes into 5:00 or 6:00 AM. That was a huge RED FLAG.

As started doing research where she was at I learned that where she was at there is a huge military base, and also very large international sea ports... that means men everywhere. Shortly after I discovered that the prostitution at that community and another community nearby is very strong and common, especially by women that come in from other countries like Russia.

During that time she had sent to me a couple pictures of her at work. Both pictures were taken at a bar or a night club, and she was wearing very short dresses, not exactly management related work attire. Attire more suitable like for drawing men's attention.

Shortly after as I was searching for prostitution related images for the area where she was at, I found an image with a woman that looked very similar to her, was wearing a dress to the one she was wearing in one of the pictures she sent to me, and the background in the newly found image was also very similar.

Needless to say I terminated the online friendship with her. I felt bad for her because she could be very sweet and charming most of the time, but the fact that she constantly hid thing about her and her background is something that was always on the back of my mind.

Worst dating site Ever. I had heard the speculations about Russian, Ukranian and Belarussian girls but I believed that was only rumours. Now with this site I had experiences with girls from these countries. And the facts about these women is even worse than the speculations. Especially Caucassians from USA and Europe have to stay away from girls from these countries especially if the girl is travelled to Isreal, Greek region of Cyprus and Arabic countries. The girls who visit those countries are escorts who are on sex tours. And also stay away from girls if they know Turkish. I mean if a girl is from Belarus, Russia or Ukraine and they know or speak Turkish; it is time for you to leave in a second. Because if she speaks Turkish it means that she did prostitution in Turkey. Also in this site please check about the countries that the girls travelled to if they had travelled to Greek Side in Cyprus, Isreal and Arab countries it means that they did sex tours in those countries. The weird thing about Isreal is; if you are not a jew who the hell on earth visit Isreal, do vacation on Isreal or enjoys the blurry sea of Isreal. The escorts have connections in Isreal. They do have escort agencies and these agencies have some connections in Isreal only God knows why. I am not even talking about the Nigerian gangs and Ghana people in Russian Cupid com. The decent girls are only a dream on this site. I had lived very bad experiences with Russian, Ukranian and Belarussian girls on this site. My suggestion to people from Europe and USA to try Moldovan and Serbian girls. Ukraine and Moldova has border and Moldovan girls are pretty and more honest than the ones mentioned. Serbia is incredible. Serbian girls are much more beautiful than Ukranian, Russian and Belarussian girls. Their mentality is completely European unlike others. You can see model looking girls walking in Belgrade. They are taller and much more beautiful than Russian Ukranian and Belarussian girls. When you land on Nicola Tesla AirPort the first thing you notice is model looking police women. Serbian girls are not money grabbing kind of girls unlike Russian Belarussian and Ukranian girls. And they are completely honest. In Russia, Ukraine and Belarus a man can not find an open girl. I wasted my money and time with the girls in this site and I regret it and it took me months to date girls from old USSR. I Wish I did not use the site and date the girls from those 3 countries. In Russian Cupid the girls even do not reply your massages. The ones who replies are Ghana people who are scammers. Thank God I found a haven in Moldova and Serbia. And I deleted my profile in Russian Cupid. In Ukraine, Belarus and Russia all a man finds is a girl who send massages to another man with her smart phone in the first meeting. I hated that. And the women in these countries always focused on your wallet not to your personality. They hide themselves and they are never open to a man. I am not even talking about the escorts in those countries. I am talking about " the normal ones" ( if there is such girl in that countries, normal girls dont exist in those countries). On the other hand Serbia has district rules about prostitution. Escorts are almost do not exist in Serbia. So my destination is Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro nothing more.

This site is full of fakes and scammers. No question about it. On joining you will start to receive interests in your email box. But if you look at who has viewed your profile there will be no one that has. This is because these profiles are fake. If you join and pay money to the site you will continue to get these but they will have disappeared within a day or so.

There are some real women on this site and here are the ways to stand a good chance of finding them.

1) Are the profile pictures like a model shoot? If yes then forget it.
2) Is there any description of what they want or what kind of man they want? If no then forget it.
3) Is there only 1 photo on their profile and is it damaged? If yes then forget it.
4) Does profile description say "no answer"? If yes then forget it.
5) A profile may not be fake but if they cannot speak English then forget it. You have nothing to talk about ever.

In terms of contact, the following rules help

1) If you get an interest or message with no viewing of your profile then forget it.
2) if you get an interest or message from a profile with no photo then forget it
3) If you get a message requesting your email then forget it even if it comes from some woman that has apparently paid for membership.

But if you choose to answer, then say you will use skype, facebook, whatsapp or viber. If their response is that they can only use email for whatever reason then they are lying. Everyone has a smart phone these days. Poor indigenous tribes living deep in the Amazonian rain forest have cheap smartphones capable of using skype, facebook, whatsapp, and viber. Russians have smartphones, they do not live on another planet or in the medieval period. They are a highly educated and cultured people, but like every other people they have their criminal elements, their fraudsters and so on.

Finally, do not under any circumstances send money or gifts to any contacts. You have no business sending them anything. You have never met them, you do not know them. Even if you actually get to the point when you talk on skype, facebook, whatsapp or viber there is always the chance the hard luck story rears its ugly head. Do not buy it under any circumstances. They cannot stretch these things out for months, so the disaster will always occur quickly, and they may not even ask for money but they will wait for you to offer, but do not offer them any out of sympathy because you are a genuinely nice person. They may not be a genuinely nice person at all. They very likely are not.

So, what does that leave you with?

1) Profiles with multiple photos
2) Photos are of them wearing normal clothes
3) Photos were taken in normal surroundings, at home, at work, out on the town
4) Photos are selfies.
5) Profiles with descriptions of who they are and what they are looking for
6) Sending a message will get you a view of your profile and an answer that does not request an email but instead may start a conversation

You may get to the point where you are talking and then suddenly they stop and do not talk to you anymore, you may even get blocked. This is because you are probably a decent person and they are a reluctant scammer. A lot of the women involve themselves in scams because they simply need the money and are desperate. And for the lecherous sex tourist wannabe they feel no compunction or remorse whatsoever in trying to scam them. But a decent guy? They will have problems with that, and as a result you may end up not talking suddenly out of no fault of your own. They are basically refusing to involve you in whatever dark deeds they have become embroiled in.

If you get into a conversation, you will probably save yourself a lot of hassle if in your first message you ask her forthrightly what she is looking for in a man, and what she expects from her man in any future relationship. It could save you a lot of wasted time. Some women just want to improve their English no matter what it says in their profile. Others are lonely and just fancy a bit of chat from someone other than the locals. Other times they are serious and want a relationship but when you hear what they are looking for you might wince. Some believe there are dozens of multi-millionaires lining up just to snap them up and take them off to wonderland. This is crazy but there is no sense in arguing with them about it because they often think they know everything and have a very high opinion of themselves. Of course, they do not know that half the Western hemisphere earns very ordinary wages and does not live the high life of the millionaire. A few holidays a year, a mortgage, a car and a pet, with occasional nights out to pubs and restaurants. They might view that as not good enough. They see marriage, followed by 3 years of travelling about the world with you footing the bill. Hollywood or rather Disneyland, in other words. They do not understand that the multi-millionaires in the West get the pick of the Western women and do not need any Eastern European beauty. I think Donald Trump does us all a disservice here. He just did not really like American women. He tried it out and preferred the Eastern European variety. Good on him. But most of us are not billionaires, and cannot afford the expense of 5 holidays a year to expensive destinations and paying for it all. Long weekends here and there are more like what most of us can offer.

Then there are the women with kids. They fully expect you to help finance the raising of their child or children. But that ought to be their Father's duty. Nonetheless, that is what you can have waiting for you, in addition to having all the holidays on top of it. And of course, the complication of having married the ex-husband when you marry her.

You may wonder if an Eastern European woman from Russiancupid is worth it at all. I suspect they are probably the worst example of what Eastern Europe has to offer rather than the best, or even the norm. So I suggest here an alternative strategy for all those of you committed to the idea. Work in your job all year, save your holiday days up for one long holiday. Choose a country and pick a city to stay in. Research all the places to go in that city for socializing. Sign up to a dating site for a month and talk to those women that are from that city or nearby. Then book your holiday and rent a 2 bedroom apartment for 1 month. Frequent the local social life and you may just find you meet someone there rather than on the dating site. But you can surely do both. The advantages, you see how the women really live and thus you can garner a more realistic perspective on who they and what expectations they have. If they are working a minimum wage job in a one bedroom apartment with no prospect of decent holidays, then most Western men can offer them a much better life, if they are prepared to contribute to its creation. And they cannot give you a false perspective of who they are. You can read their body language, you will be there for a month and can go on many dates before you return home.

So, if you choose to sign up and pay the fee, do so for only 1 month and then forget it. Experiment over. If you meet a real woman after following the above rules and develop a rapport online then you will simply have to go and visit her in her home town or city. There is no way she will come to you. If you suggest an independent location, they may well be open to that but it will be separate hotel rooms in the location you choose to visit, and expect to pay for everything, including flights, hotel rooms, food etc. It is your gig. Bear in mind, that she may only be open to the independent location because she views it as a free holiday. Women on Russiancupid all love travelling, hint hint. And if they are in favour of marriage, they are in favour of the first 3 years being a whirlwind trip across the entire world, filled with romance and whatever other mad notion the media gives of how our lives should be.

So, if you really wish to go for the Eastern European woman, then try my alternative strategy. Choose a city and go and stay for a month. I reckon you will get much more joy out of doing that. All in all RussianCupid is just a cash cow for the owners. It offers nothing more than a free site like F-Dating can offer you. The same experience for nothing sounds like a better deal to me. I have tried F-Dating and went on weekend trip with a nice, educated, polite and pretty woman. She paid for her own flight and hotel. So, it can happen, and we had a good time. Another is actually coming to visit me. She is paying for her flight and staying with me. There are ones out there prepared to show effort themselves, but you will not find them on RussianCupid.com. The vast majority on that site are either fake profiles, or materialistic witches. The good, childless ones are older than 30, obviously more conservative in dress and manner, perhaps a bit shy, and appreciate that you do not owe them a life or a living, or fancy holidays around the world. They will have decent jobs but lack the man that will complete their lives. The other good ones have children, but that is not a complication you wish to have in your life, especially if there is a living father or ex-husband. So, take my advice, treat RussianCupid.com as the terrible service that it is, and give it a miss. If you must try it, try for 1 month and make sure you switch off the automatic renewal of subscription. You can try F-Dating and get the same experience for free, and who knows you might actually end up meeting someone on it. But do not hold your breath for either, or you could be holding it for a long time. The best strategy is to go out there for a month and live with the majority of people who do not sign up to a dating site. Good luck.

Cupid Media (Ecom Holdings Pty Ltd) decided to change the name of this site from RussianEuro to RussianCupid. It does not matter because it still is the same site anyway. The major complaint with this site has to do with many fake profiles and there being difficulty in finding someone.

Here is what someone on the site no1reviews.com says

Reviewer: NickG from Australia, 21 April 2011

Topic: I have just had 12 fake profiles deleted in 9 hours

"I have met a couple of real girls but for every 1 you meet you meet 10 fakes, if their country is anything other than Russia such as Italy or America they are fakes and the site knows this but continues to let them sign on

This sums up the site"

Of course these fake profiles contain scammers as well as also noted by one reviewer and it means that going through these profiles means that it is a waste of time and money as another person noted on the site no1reviews.com also

Reviewer: Zoltan from Europe, 26 August 2011

Topic: Hit a lotto has a greater chance as to find someone here!

"So, after 1 month my experience: The site itself is good, the idea, layout and the design. No problem here. The REAL problem is that they allow every fake person to register. I reported every day at least 20 fake pictures, profiles. I'm tired already that they "first class, anti scam measurements" are non existent. I got 100 emails, about 300 interests, i checked 1100 profiles and send out many messages, interests. About 3 turned out to be true. I was looking for a girl from 18 to 30 years, without kids. So maybe if you look for someone older, like 45 with 2 kids, maybe you gonna have better chances... I don't know. My experience was really bad, waste of the time and money. They have zillions of members, but most of them are fake (i think about 80% from my age). I got every day dozens of interests, messages from scammers, ghana scammers and scammers from all over the world. Nobody was real and ready to give Skype address, nobody had a camera or had access to the Internet cafe or anything else. Just automated messages every time, even when my reply was "Go and %^&* yourself, you scammer" i got a reply next day, a full letter saying thank you for my kind message.

So, save your time and money, it's a massive scam. Sooner or later you going to figure it out yourself if you pay for the membership. Don't be a fool."

This Cupid Media site many times seems more like a catastrophe and it would be wise to heed the words of warnings from those who are warning others about the ways of this site!

For me personally it is better to go on a free site and filter out all of the fakes from the real ones than to actually go on a paid site and waste your money doing so. It is better to be wise than to be a fool when it comes to the ways and workings of this site.