FabSwingers.com forum: Fake profiles

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Who can spot a fake profile on here?. Few "women" in my area have been on for months and no photo verification proving otherwise. They could be anyone right!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

makes my blood boil .... i dont get it ...

you gey men pretending to be a couple alot too just yo tslk to women ... crazy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

there’s loads of obvious signs that the profile of women/couples are fake.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"makes my blood boil .... i dont get it ...

you gey men pretending to be a couple alot too just yo tslk to women ... crazy

Yes we fell into this trap a couple of times and no more what to look for now.

Geeky x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

maybe the same in other postcodes but WA always has the same four men constantly rehashing pics and c&p profiles.

I dont understand why admin dont just allow those verified by them to continue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't have a photo verification. I keep forgetting to do it.

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By *ut of townerMan
over a year ago

Travel

An easy fix would be for admin to make it so had to verify email and limit to one profile per email. Won't eliminate but will make it better

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We're not interested enough to even bother trying to spot them.

A total waste of time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some look very convincing with photos and a couple of veris etc but as soon as you chat it becomes obvious they are faking. It's always the female of a couple, or a single female and within the first few messages I'm 99.99% sure that I'm talking to a man of at least probably 40+ years age. Essentially textsex without the honesty. Maybe I'm wrong about these people but I tend to trust my feelings.

Last year I was chatting with two older guys and then at some point noticed that they both had the same cock photo. When I mentioned this the response was first petulant and then downright weird.

Others seem like nice company until I decline to meet for whatever reason, some people have caught me by surprise with how unpleasant they quickly become.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"An easy fix would be for admin to make it so had to verify email and limit to one profile per email. Won't eliminate but will make it better "

Multiple email addresses?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's currently 27470 profiles online... how many of them are fakes?

I would hazard a guess at a quarter of them...

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By *ophleeCouple
over a year ago

Fareham

I think we have become quite good at spotting fakes now and agree with an earlier post that there could be as many as 20/25% fakes on here. Should be a charge to be on here at all and that list would decrease

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are other sites that charge the males only.. so they just sign up as a female to get round this.

We are always gonna have fakes on here no matter what the sore does... it's an unfortunate fact that we all have to try and work around to find the genuine people

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By *lay-full-funCouple
over a year ago

stockport

We was on another site that was free at first then it went to pay it ended up more fakes on there

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By *illowzWoman
over a year ago

Exeter

I had a message last night apparently from a bi single female. No pictures on profile. So I asked and got a picture of a man in bed!! Reported that bloody quick.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think if you've been on your more then 12 months and got no verification your profile should be deleted.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think if you've been on your more then 12 months and got no verification your profile should be deleted."

6 months more like.

It's not hard to get to a club, they are scattered all over the UK so no excuse to not attend, and it's the best way to get yourself known, be social and get the very much sought after 1st veri too.

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"I think if you've been on your more then 12 months and got no verification your profile should be deleted."

Then they set up a new profile the next day. At least if it's there with no verifications you know to avoid it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think if you've been on your more then 12 months and got no verification your profile should be deleted.

Then they set up a new profile the next day. At least if it's there with no verifications you know to avoid it. "

Quite a good valid point

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

"I think if you've been on your more then 12 months and got no verification your profile should be deleted."

And if you aren't meeting and using the for and cam rooms? Should your profile still be deleted?

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Blocking newbies and unverified profiles with message filters does the trick too.

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By *ut of townerMan
over a year ago

Travel

"An easy fix would be for admin to make it so had to verify email and limit to one profile per email. Won't eliminate but will make it better

Multiple email addresses?

Like I said won't eliminate but would be a further deterrent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I find the whole fake profile thing baffling. Also second stalker profiles

its weird

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is already the case. One email address = one profile.

But as already stated - the Site Admin do eliminate those proven as fakes - it is up to the users here to report the profiles - and to use the myriad of tools/methods to avoid having them waste your time.

"An easy fix would be for admin to make it so had to verify email and limit to one profile per email. Won't eliminate but will make it better "

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By *ut of townerMan
over a year ago

Travel

There's a guy near me. He's photo verified, meet verified and yet has pictures easily found on the internet (Yes I've reported him).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had a “woman” with no pics, wouldn’t send any because “she only meets in clubs”

We only meet in clubs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Unsure if I’ve attracted a fake account so I’m just playing along with them at the mo.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Unsure if I’ve attracted a fake account so I’m just playing along with them at the mo."

Why would you, it only encourages them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Unsure if I’ve attracted a fake account so I’m just playing along with them at the mo.

Why would you, it only encourages them."

Because I’m unsure if I’m honest, maybe if I’m in doubt I should just block

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By *ikki_now_n_thenTV/TS
over a year ago

Leicester

I've seen a few that have copied the words from another, and copied photos too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I reported two profiles that had the same photo. Don't know if that's against the rules but the people in question were still here months later.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"An easy fix would be for admin to make it so had to verify email and limit to one profile per email. Won't eliminate but will make it better "

You do have to verify email when you join now and one per email at a time. Doesn't stop people having multiple accounts. For example I have 4 personal email account so I could potentially have 4 separate accounts.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can tell by the pics most women have genuine pics up the others have modelling pics up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can tell by the pics most women have genuine pics up the others have modelling pics up "

I've chatted with some very convincing looking profiles, natural pics etc, but obviously fake once we get talking.

I think a good guideline is, if something seems too good to be true then it probably is. That and, don't get drawn into a situation where it really matters if they are a fake.

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By *enuineinCambsMan
over a year ago

cambridge

Just go to clubs. It's easy to meet people

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I reported two profiles that had the same photo. Don't know if that's against the rules but the people in question were still here months later."

Similar experience too. Also have reported no shows and nothing done about them.

Looking at the most fabbed photos of 2017 and a fair number are from profiles that aren't verified.

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By *randMrsTeaseCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Unfortunately I believe fake couple profiles are making it harder for genuine couples that are looking to meet other couples and woman extremely difficult to achieve on this site, even more so for newbies.

Yes I know we can go to the club's, social meets, etc. We aren't fond of clubs.

Getting social meet with woman is just as hard and well couple normally turn out to be just the man looking because wife is ill/holiday/bad week/being anally probed by aliens, etc.

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By *ackDMissMorganCouple
over a year ago

Halifax

Always go with your instinct.if it seems fake,often it will be.

Miss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I reported a profile and it's still on .I started chatting too him and he admitted his profile pic is fake .He's verified by a couple .makes you wonder really who is real

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Always go with your instinct.if it seems fake,often it will be.

Miss"

Exactly this, use your gut instinct. Also, block all non verified people in your filters. There is no need for people to get verified either by photo or meet if they don't want to. Some people don't come on here to meet, there is no requirement to meet. Fab gives you all the tools you need to avoid them, you have to use your common sense to do the rest.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cam before a meet and ask to see both couples. If they refuse then take that as a fake couple. I don't do instant meets so talk for a while and can usually suss out the idiots!

If someone's pictures look amazing I also google reverse image and found fakes via that.

One guy was a professional footballer lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cam before a meet and ask to see both couples. If they refuse then take that as a fake couple. I don't do instant meets so talk for a while and can usually suss out the idiots!

If someone's pictures look amazing I also google reverse image and found fakes via that.

One guy was a professional footballer lol

I must get reverse-image searched all the time

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