Doug M.

I have been on alt.com and now AFF for one month. I had some issues with alt.com, but nothing compared to AFF. For starters, AFF is totally based on making you pay extra for everything. For example, I joined for $20 for one month gold membership. In order to talk/email with standard women members, you have to pay an additional fee to read their email. You also get email messages from ambassadors and other women overseas who have no interest in you at. Next, there is the issue of points, gifts etc which pervade the entire AFF. In order to do anything at all, instant message someone, watch their web cam, send them an email or whatever, there is a continual and ongoing push for you to spend $10 and buy 1000 credits which you then send to the women.
Avoid AFF since it is a blatant scam. You will find your gold basic monthly fee is not the ceiling but the floor of money you will spend. You will end up spending another $8 to $10 a month on the standard email reading scam. You will spend, at least, $10 for 1000 points which don't last very long at all. You will spend extra money on gifts and flowers etc. In fact, if you don't watch yourself you will easily end up spending another $20 to $50 a month over the original $10. That doesn't include any live cam shows, for which you will get at least one or two notifications each time you are online there.
I also found that only three, repeat three, of the women who viewed me, out of 20, were within 100 miles of me. You know you are dealing with scammers when you get passionate requests from a 22 year old girl in Peru.
The bottom line is AFF is one of the worst dating sites I have dealt with. I have been on alt.com, zoosk, a couple of the MILF ones, which are total scams.

I will cancel my account, and hope they don't screw me on my bank account. I am very, very unimpressed with AFF, especially since they are the parent company for Alt.com. I never had the level and type of issues, especially reading emails, I do at AFF.

Again, avoid AFF unless you want to get constantly overwhelmed with scammers, fake profiles and a near total whining for money no matter what you are doing at AFF. It is also clear to me I screwed up by not coming here and reading all the reviews, the VAST MAJORITY OF WHICH ARE TOTALLY NEGATIVE AT ONE.
I learned my lesson about AFF. Based on my not nearly as bad experience with alt.com I assumed I was dealing with a good dating site with AFF. Boy, was I wrong. Like I said, I will cancel my account, lick my wounds, and move on. You should learn from my mistake with AFF.

One final thing I will note. In both alt.com and AFF they have some real issues with numbers of people listed. AFF shows 14,500 women listed as seeking men in Oregon. Of that number, and I counted them, page after page, 250 are active on the day you are online. Roughly another 1,000 are active up to 90 days. This means, just like alt.com roughly 85 to 90 percent of the people listed are dead accounts going back, in some cases, nearly a decade. This is something else to keep in mind when reviewing AFF.

One of the ways I define an online scam is does it do what it says it will do. The answer for Cheatingcougars.com is it does not. I will note the same parent company, located in Cyprus for God's sake, has many other scam sites.

These include: Seeking Naughty, MILF'sConnection.com, SeekingMilf.com and multiple other sites. The headline reads, "Get laid tonight." This is a LIE, and as I will explain below it is physically impossible to have happen.

The saying, RTFM, or read the $%%% manual, applies to any website you are planning to pay money to join. When you go to the above websites, or any other dating web site, it is time and money well spent to first click on the "Terms and Conditions" link. It is found at the bottom of the webpage, in the contact us, privacy policy etc. The reason for this is simple. Once I explain exactly what the terms and conditions are for these, as well as many other dating sites are, you will realize when I openly call them SCAMS, FRAUDS AND LIES I am being polite.

So, readers of my review, what exactly will you find in the terms and conditions of the above websites, as well as many of so called "Dating, or Sex websites?
I'm glad you asked that question. You will have to scroll down to the middle of the page, after headlines, various paragraphs etc. Once there you will find words like "Online Cupids," or "Online Regents," or other such words. In this section, the website owner explains why the website is a scam.
The legal words tell you several things about the women you will find listed in many sex websites. The quick version is the women in the profile don't exist.

The long version is the pictures are FAKE, since they do not represent a REAL woman as defined in the profile. The picutures are real in the sense the woman does exist somewhere, just not as the woman listed in the profile. The profiles are FAKE, again in the sense the words written do not reflect any living person, and certainly not the woman whose picture is shown. This means that you can't actually meet that woman, since she doesn't exist as a real woman seeking to meet men on that website.
You will then ask me who this woman is. Again, after reading the terms and conditions, you will be smothered in legal evasive, misleading terms.
The first thing you will be told is the woman doesn't exist; the pictures and profile are fake. The second thing you will be told is all of this is for "entertainment" and "quality control" purposes. They will also say they are monitoring this to "enhance member experience."
The bottom line is when you join, and they usually cost $30 a month to join, all you are being guaranteed is the ability to cyberchat with an unknown woman. The terms and conditions will also tell you the "woman" may really be a paid contractor, or a computer generated one. You will told you are not guaranteed to meet any woman on the website, much less go on a date with her. The reason being they are either a software program or a woman sitting in a room in Bulgaria. Further, what your $30 buys you is the right to chat with either a computer program or a woman who has multiple profiles to interact with.
The thing I want you to understand is this. If you go on these websites expecting to find real women, looking for interactions, and to meet, real men, then this is IMPOSSIBLE TO happen.
For example, when I went to CheatingCougar.com I went to the who is online page. I will tell you quite plainly that out of 28 pages of "online women," every single woman, on every single page, was on "online cupid." You can do the math.
Finally, all of the above is legal apparently. The terms and conditions, where you are openly told the entire website is a scam run from Cyprus, covers their rear end.

You will also find the interaction with the online cupids follows this basic pattern. They send a friend request, or they send you a one or two sentence email. You respond to that email, and they will respond one, or at most two more times. Next, that particular woman/profile will vanish, and you will get more friend requests and other emails from more online cupids.
The result of all that is every time I logged on I had several friend's requests to approve and several emails to respond to. The emails were either from a computer software program, or an actual woman sitting a computer terminal in Bulgaria. The reason I think most of the real women online are from Eastern Europe is all the "Hey, honey tell me your fantasy emails. In fact, you can see the exact same wording in multiple emails for the simple reason that several woman control several different profiles and have a standard script they use.

At any rate, this review needed to be long since I had to verify my comments. After all, if you are openly calling a website a scam, you need to back it up with facts. I will just tell all of you reading this one thing. If you don't believe me, or think I am being unduly harsh, all you have to do is go to cheatingcougars.com and click on the terms and conditions at the bottom of the page. When you do that, go down to the section called "online cupids" and read it. It says exactly what I said it does. If you then join, and they do have a certain level of free membership, go to the Who's Online section and then count, page after page, all the Online Cupid women. They at least are good at having it clearly displayed on the profile upper right hand corner.
Now, if you like to chat with fake women, who are the cyber version of phone sex, that is okay. If you realize you are not going to meet any of the women listed, and that everything about the profiles is fake, well that is your choice. My personal opinion is websites like this are consumer frauds and should be shut down. Again, the terms and conditions section apparently covers their rear end enough to stay out of jail.
The bottom line is know what you are getting at these so called "sex sites." Read the terms and conditions, look for phrases talking about online cupids and "entertainment value only" and spend your money or not.

I was on alt.com about a decade ago. I just rejoined a few days ago and saw some of the issues I had back then. It is true many of the profiles are years old. It is also true many of the members haven't been online for more than three months. It is also true that within hours of my signing up I got a whole bunch of "female sub looking for master" messages. They are easy to spot since they come from all over the world and are clearly spam. I just blocked the user and moved on. I did email with actual people. I plan to meet one of them soon for some fun and games.
My advice is to keep your eyes open, you spidey sense tingling, and go for it. You will have to wade through a lot of stuff. You will be scammed if you let yourselves. I was also on cheatingcougar. Com, seeking milf, com, milfsconnection.com for a while. Alt.com isn't a in your face, steal your money scam like they are. They use "online cupids" which are people sitting in a room with a quota to respond to a certain number of people per day. The pictures are fake. The profiles are fake. The people don't exist. I once counted two, and both of them were scammers, in 28 pages of online now. The rest, which was 99 percent, were "online cupids" and didn't exist.
Alt.com isn't anywhere near that bad, If you use a little judgment, you can sort through the crap, figure out who is who and have some fun.
At any rate, I have concluded the vast majority of dating sites are either 99 percent scam, or have a lot of fake profiles Alt.com is much better than most of the rest, although you do have keep your eyes peeled. The basic skill set of paranoia works just fine.