I describe my experience as a member of Your Travel Mates as sad, robbed and bad. I was a member for more than 2 years, over the period I got scammed. I remember one lady (employee-I think) requested me to send her a letter from a different dating site. On that dating site I noticed members were the same and later I was added in two more dating sites without my consent, I became a member of four dating sites. The women can't recognise they are talking to the same person, it was confusing (I concluded I was chatting to employees). I bought gifts and received contacts for three Chinese women, who never replied or contacted me. I discovered they were fake people. When I reported to the administrators, a lady told me to purchase more gifts and send to the ladies. I was shocked. The woman on all 4 dating sites cannot remember what you discussed previously with them, they always start new conversations, it's frustrating. Every time they chat to me, they either said "Hi" or " How are you" you just can't move forward. They use video chat to quickly run your credits so that you can top up again. They attract men with fake rich Chinese women standing next to expensive cars, showing expensive houses and posed them as business women. They also use fake Columbian women as doctors. You get attractive Brazilian women. They generate more money using fake women mostly from China, Columbia, Ukraine, Brazil and Philippines. When you log onto a member profile, you will notice the photos can belong to 2-3 completely different people and the very same person looks different on video chat. How is that possible, I don't know. However I concluded that they have a collection of photos and use AI for video chat. You can chat to the same person for 3 months without any further progress and moreover she refuses to have any contact outside the dating site. They like gifts that cost money, in most instances, they will demand you send them a red heart, remember you pay for that red heart. There are money making mechanisms. I observed funny looking people on video chats, saved the pictures and studied them. I noticed eyes, noses, faces and glasses were not correctly aligned. I attached one example. I then conducted more research on women photos on the internet, I was shocked to discover some people are downloaded directly from the internet, e. G models. A beautiful lady by the name of Valetina from Columbia on Your Travel Mates, is everywhere on the internet, they use her photos to generate money. Older men are lured using younger beautiful women, I remember Juli, Sarah from Columbia, Myrtha from Germany and etc were 21 years old who never sounded or behaved like young girls. I think those are older prostitutes. I reported my experiences to 3 administrators, two decided to ignore and one offered me credits and support, which I declined. One interesting observation I had. Some ladies are always there, whenever I visit the site, they are ready to chat to me. I asked myself, how is it possible? Don't they work, eat, sleep and etc? This is when I confirmed there are people hired to chat with members who are not real, not searching for partners but a larger part of the scam operation. A lady by the name of Caro from the US, was insisting continuing chatting to me, I told her I can't continue as I have been doing so for the whole of 2024. She said I'm a liar, lonely man who have excuses to leave the site. I had 169 credits, after few replies to her, they were reduced to 152, I logged off and later when I logged in, I had zero credits. Your Travel Mates is not owned and operated by average criminals but by international syndicates, well organised and experienced. I hope they will be arrested one day.

My experience with this site was a fascinating manipulative & educational lesson, like a life recap at chapter "How NOT to be emotionally manipulated/How to identify the illusions of emotional marketing", definitely didn't expect it. I went on this "playground" being not-enough educated Settings wise after joining another similar profile site. I took a look while being natural born curios and comm pro, it was something completely new for me, I took it interesting professionally speaking. I spent time and some amount of money to advance in understanding of how this kind of platform/business worked. Yes, I know, I could have spent those resources better, but, somehow, there is no regret because it is, probably, the one and only experience within this kind of apps. Nice photos on a profile (gorgeous, in fact!), some communication developed "fast and curious". The strategies used in my case: 1. Victimization (life story with family with medical problems, he was a "doctor"), being left by wife in front of life difficulties, him having medical issues (sleeping disorder - explaining the ongoing online presence; stroke - explaining some confusion and expression troubles etc); 2. "love bombing"; 3. Flattering; 4. Permanent hooking (key-words: talk, conversation, discussion); 5. Emails innuendo (just to tell commonalities and relational - philosophical cliches); 5. Not disclosing as real person (always hidden under an ocean of big empty words selling future promises and relationship illusions); 6. Inability to evaluate and respond in real time at some more complex texts: 7. Lack of knowledge regarding English grammar (dots missing, phrases unfinished, confusing a lot "he/him" with "she/her"; 8. Lack of conversational articulation when took out from the "romantic" pattern; 9. Incapacity to express something more than romantic bla bla bla (ideas, thoughts from actuality etc); 10. Spontaneous negative reaction when asked if he is a real person (of questioning the motivation form bringing it into discussion, he got instantly mad and turned the question back to me without answering (like childish). Plus other many red flags that seriously make me to think of writing a scientific paper about it.

The big picture: 1. The profile was fake, of a nice model that sold the image for the site plus some thematic videos for some key-points in case you wonder if it is fake; 2. The chat person was an operational person within the app (or maybe more): emotionally immature and very limited as self-expression: 3. The true scope is to make them, somehow, to open up and spend money on bull$#*! conversations and discussions about nothing; 4. Still, there are some normal people there, I've talked to one, to compare, and it was very clear to me that is real (he got jokes with definite cultural references only a person could get): 5. I deleted my account today (in fact, requested previously, today, they accepted): 6. Dating app - lesson learnt: our vulnerabilities are, also, our super - powers, if you got the lesson, although pretty expensive. Good luck, be aware of, take care! M.

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