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CharmDate has a rating of 2.6 stars from 699 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with CharmDate most frequently mention contact information, total scam and good luck. CharmDate ranks 4th among Russian Dating sites.
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I've been on this site for quite a while and got overwhelming responses from the ladys... this aroused my suspicions. I looked further into the profiles and found that most were models or b grade actors... well they were using their pictures anyway. You will find most of the girls in Russian magazines... just with different details. I wrote to the site management and they offered me nothing but bull$#*!. Id stay away from this site... as they say if it seems to good to be true it generally is.
This is THE WORST, money grabbing, lying, cheating site on the web. Four out of four girls with whom I was talking had stolen photos of others and pretended to be them. The site will tell you to continue talking to their impersonator and "work out" the misunderstanding. I did better - I actually spoke to the people whose identities had been stolen! They confirmed it was not them, and the site simply ignored me. STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS.
I have been on this site for more than a year and in that time I have spoken to a number of woman. It became apparent to me that one of the women that I was taking to was not who she claimed to be. So I did a simple image search using some of her pictures and google. It turned out that the pictures were of a minor Russian TV star and so I made the site aware of this fact, but they simply made excuses. So I did a little more research and quickly identified another 8 women, that were clearly scam artists, in spite of the fact that website claimed to have confirmed there identities.
To illustrate my point, just before I came on to this site, I checked pictures from 3 women on Charmingdate.com at random and one was easily identified as a scrammer. Maria (Profile ID: C*******) is actually Charlotte Springer a British Glamour Model.
My recommendation is simple 'STAY WELL CLEAR' and spend your money elsewhere.
After registering, searching through profiles and receiving 4-5 emails on average every day I finally came upon 2 different profiles with the same photos in them: same person, same name, 1 day difference in birthday and 10 years age difference. Suspected it was somewhat of a scam from the start, just don't know if it's site based or individual person based. Did find a lady that I really liked, but now, I'm sorry, having hard proof in front of my eyes, probably going to let it go. Honestly, I don't mind talking to a REAL person and even spending $$ but I think situation becomes very clear if the lady sends you an admirer email and then refuses to talk to you in any other way but via the site? That was most of other complaints about this site that i came across on the web. Lol. I don't know... Some of the letters looked very genuine, others were just same "blah blah blah", letter after letter. Well, I'll do some more digging. On the bright side, I did get some racy pictures. So, if you are into this sort of thing, good luck. I changed my profile, really "dumb it down", never used my real name and didn't spend any money. So, I guess no harm done. Cheers.
Charmingdate so many scammers on this site, everything you see are `scamms` an lies), profile Alina C******* is lowlife scammer using modell natasha belle pics, a nother two profiles there natalia C******* is the same woman svetlana C******* i have told them they havent done nothing as yet a while back an tell you to communicate with the scammer, have good reason to believe imposters the agencys use womans profile also) one woman didin`t know she said that
When you reply to live chats several times you get no answer but your credit still goes) when its only ment to once woman replies more scammers then real here
How much money you got...
I have once registered it and experience its service. Girls are beautiful in there.The customer service of it is really nice. I love this site for dating beautiful Russian girls!
I was overjoyed at finding a site with "binders" full of profiles of beautiful women who were looking for a guy like me and didn't care that I was middle aged and average looking at best. It wasn't until had paid for the service that I found the reviews warning people away from the sites that were "too good to be true" and "look out for sites that charge for every email you send the dates"
Then it clicked that the woman I'd been corresponding with had given generic answers to my questions. Love poems that sounded sweet but ate up my credits without any real content. No pictures of her holding a sign that says "Hi (my name)" as I'd requested, but pictures that were from her website. I don't know if she was really the person on the website or if someone was using the pictures without permission. And since it's a Russian dating website, no way to contact the actual website (also in Russian) to find out. There may be real women on this, but it would cost a fortune to find them among the spammers.
This is one of the scariest sites on the web WWW.CHARMINGDATE.COM.
Before you know it you are being robbed blind. No exchange of personal information- no email, no addresses, no phone numbers can be exchanged- everything is done by the corrupt site. And the girls might be real but they are so brainwashed by the company not to give out numbers or addresses for their safety that they are like robots. I consider this one of the most dangerous sites on the web because it comes across as legitimate. The problem is they are now filling the web with fake reviews saying how great the site is. This is everything we hear about in the States/Uk/Europe boys when it comes to Eastern Europe. They are nothing more then organized crime. I also think that they get gifted to keep you on chat longer where they can buy jewelry, watches, perfume, etc. These things are very important to these girls and I think that the corruptness may have permeated them. Not nice people. Stay away at all costs.
Answer: My verdict after a year of using Charmdate: it's total fraud! I had been in a close contact with many girls for a year until I finally left the site. Now I'm convinced that pretty much all of them were scammers. I had not met any of them! All of them suddenly came up with some kind of excuse in the last minute as to why they couldn't have a real meeting with me. Bullsh*t! It can't be a coincidence when I had 4 dates on http://j4Iove.com After using it for 3 months only. Can you explain the difference? There is just one realistic explanation: Charmdate women were fakes and scammers.
Answer: The question "Can I trust the site" is easy. The answer is no. The real question is "can I trust the girl" and that is harder to answer since there are some real women on the site. Here are some things to consider. Many men have signed up for tours or independent visits to meet a girl only to have the site call at the last moment and tell them they either have found someone else or decided they were not interested. By that time they already have their ticket and "tour" booked and paid for. We don't know if your girl is real or not and you might find yourself a "victim" of their fraud. Before you trust her, you need to be able to separate her from the site and confirm the relationship independent of the agency. There are ways of doing this. Ask her to send pictures that she has posted on her private web sites. Google them and make direct contact. I googled any picture of wome writing to me. Many were on VK.com, the equivalent of facebook. So I set up an account there and contacted the ladies. Most immediately blocked me. One who did not simply told me she would ONLY correspond with me on Charming date. You can also try to find a way to give her your phone number and ask her to call you collect. Most of the time your letters will be edited to prevent such information so you'd have to be creative. Tell her about a 2025 mile trip you took and fill out the rest of the telephone number with number of gas station stops meals eaten, people visited, etc etc. If you really want to you can call her, assuming you are actually talking to her and not a fake agent. Find out where she works. Call there and get her direct number. Try anything. But so long as you are only writing emails, you should assume little correspondence between the profile and the emails you are getting. Odds are if you are corresponding with a real woman, much of your correspondence has been "enhanced" or even written by the agency and you will have to start over getting to know her. Independent studies indicate that you have a higher chance of marrying a translator for the agency than you do of marrying the girl to whom you thought you were writing.
Answer: Do they get paid? Not in a conventional way set up in a western society. Charming Date, gets its women from "affiliates" in Ukraine. These "dating groups" go out and advertise for women, who are seeking western men. The site pays the "affiliates" money for each women's profile they get to use the site. I CANNOT definitely say that the affiliate groups are set up to pay the women. They feed them a lot of bullshit about how easy it is to marry a western man. In Ukraine, the average salary is about 200 bucks a month. A lot of these women love that country, but want a better life. The dating sites know this and use this as their leverage to get women to sign up. They really BELIEVE that someone is going to marry them. That is their dream and the dating sites tell them that the dream will never be realized if they are not exposed to a society (western) that can give them a better life. Not all of those women are scammer's. You have groups within the affiliated dating service group, that is filled with nothing but scammers. I am SURE that the leader of these groups ASK to be paid for each women they get to sign up.If they DO pay a woman, she is not getting hardly anything at all. A Ukrainian woman is not going to get rich advertising herself online at different dating sites. I would say she is lucky if she even gets 10% of a reply. And then that is eaten up by all the photo-shopping that is done to make them look more beautiful. She is stuck, she does not realize how hard it is to get her out of the Ukraine because the dating site will not ever tell her of the VISA restrictions that are attached to Ukrainian citizens when it comes to visiting the West. But the dating site is her only hope., so she stays with it not because of the little she may be getting, but because she believes that she will find a real husband from the west. To the dating sites, she is nothing but the product they advertise to make money off of, and some of the women have gotten hip to that. I have had a couple talk to me seriously about how they felt they were not being informed on how hard it is to marry a western man because of the restrictions on the average Ukrainian's VISA. The dating site WANTS you to fall in love with one, wants you to keep buying credits, spending money, and if you are communicating with a lady from one of the crooked affiliate sites, she will be encouraging you to keep writing, or will try to seduce you with words. A real lady does not do that, even in the sites. If you tell her the site is too high, she wants to know how much you pay. If you tell her you can only write her once a week, she will tell you that she will cherish each letter you send. If you are in a site that has video chat, you can SEE the very woman you are talking too, which Charming Date may have now. A true Ukrainian woman will introduce you to her family through the video chat, show you her brothers and sisters, because Ukrainians are all about family. They are proud of their families and want them to meet you. I have done this several times at another site and even send emails to them without the use of a site, but it costs them a lot of money to respond to you, to have what you send to them interpreted. CharmingDates plays this game two ways, they pimp the woman without her knowing how hard it will be to get this dream, and they scam you thinking you are just going to find a wife here just by a few chats or letters. You might, but you can bet you will be spending a lot of money to send and respond to letters. CharmingDate cheats on their chat feature by NOT giving you the full time you pay for, and they DO have women, who are members of the dating site, answering chat invitations. So, that should tell you something right there. Because there seem to be no restrictions or laws governing these crooked affiliate sites from Ukraine, this will not ever stop. But... there are a few sites out there that you can really meet some decent, nice, attractive and respectful women from Ukraine. After you have been around for awhile, you can smell a scam a mile away. A real Ukrainian woman will SURPRISE you with how friendly she is. She will SHOCK you with how humble she is. All she wants... is for you to be her friend and she HOPES, that it becomes more than that. There are many, many attractive women there. This I learned AFTER my first post here. But because there are so many, the men there take them for granted and will leave them in a minute. They are there, they are in Charming Date, but there is so many frauds and scammers there also, the dating site can easily get out of trouble by saying they have no policies at all governing the affiliates who sell them profiles of women they recruit. The site says "no scams", that is true for any society that has laws, but they do not get these women from a society based on that. So, it is easy for a woman and the company she works for, to scam the site, which I am sure... they know it. Good luck out there! Search the sites hard, there are some Ukrainian women that are really worth your time and attention. I am continuing to find out more and more about Ukraine. It is a very interesting place. It also seems that, the more you seem to want to know about their country, the more honest women are attracted to you. The more intelligent you act towards them, the more credible the women seem to get. It seems like a word goes around the country that says" this guy has a real interest in our country, he is worth being serious with" The truth be told, a lot of dudes, pay that little money to those women, and want nothing but virtual sex from them. That is how I believe the scammers got a foothold in the industry. The cry for immoral (smile). Everything you have read here is based on my personal opinion, on things I have learned while talking and dealing with women from Ukraine. When they were asking me about the unrest in America, about holidays, about how streets look like, you can assume... she is probably on the level. She will NOT EVER ask you for a DIME, nor will she send sob stories about someone in her family being sick. The true Ukrainian woman, for all her humbleness, is still a very PROUD woman. She may not have ANYTHING, but she will not ask anything from you! Personally... I think if you get a chance to get ahold of a true one? That Slavic woman is going to love you to death, no matter WHAT you look like... just have a decent heart and treat her correctly.
Answer: I flew to Kiev and found this site to be much of what others have said. The woman are paid. Local model agencies refer girls to this site to make extra money. One girl told me she made fifty per cent of what she brought in. When I surprised a couple of girls that I was in Kiev vacationing they were all of a sudden leaving Kiev on there own vacation. I found meeting girls in Kiev at bar/restaurant I was much better off. If you notice girls send you the same pictures just to build their tally and so on. If you stick to a letter a week and see where it goes from there it will keep your costs low if you want to keep investigating this site. But my recommendation is travel to Kiev during winter and Oddessa during summer and see what happens.
Answer: It's a fake and scam site.
Answer: Any positive feedback here about Charm Date is a complete lie. Don't believe anything.
Answer: They will not do this. I actually wrote them about a month, maybe two back about policies. This was one of them I wondered about and they said they do not provide that service anymore. They also do not support IMBRA.
Answer: You have to request them to do this. I would delete all your photos, and erase everything you can. Then make the request.
Answer: This site appears to be a complete rip off, far too expensive, gives nothing in return except endless chat.
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