smells like a scam

smells like a scam

I am registered on "Christian cupid", and I found someones profile on there of interest to me, so I added that person to my favourites list. It said that this person is from Hong Kong. Shortly after that I received an email from the supposed person. To read this email I needed to become a paid user. The cheapest amount was $39.98. So, I paid and read the email. The email said, "Hey :) thx for adding me as ur favorite while the time I was in 'your city' indeed lol (a week ago)". In the 'your city' part, the name of my city was used. Anyway, I replied back to the email on the 23rd of January, but I haven't received a reply yet. I decided to do a google search to try and find more information on this 'person'. After searching for her profile name, "Kevina", and the place in Hong Kong where she is supposedly from, "Tuen Mun:, New Territories, "Hong Kong", I found a similar profile on many of the 'cupid' group of dating sites, in a few different languages (Spanish, German), even though the profile doesn't mention that she speaks any other language apart from English. Also, there was major differences in the member overview description between the Christian one and the non christian ones. There were some minor differences in the personal details (for example, height, weight etc). I suspect that this is one way the dating website group gets people to pay for membership. To see the pages use the search string "kevina tuen mun hong kong". But I guess that once they find out this post is online, they will quickly remove or change that profile. I hope I can warn people about this site/group of sites.

Pros
There may be some honest people on there...not sure

Cons
From my review, I would say that the owners are involved in unethical practices...I would stay away.

Hi Harry,

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