Internet dating sights help to cut down on fraud

Fraud? That would be the ones who are just out there looking to get laid.
The ones who are already married and abusing the online personals. I
personally get sick and tired of being approached for sex alone. I am
so much more than just a sexual being. Mind you, if I meet the right
guy who "I'm really into and he's into me" and we take time to get to
know each other as friends, I think both of us should be worth waiting
for to cross that line. Here is an article I read which is promising.
People who meet other people via the internet and find that they are
not who they say they are, should make it a practice of "reporting" them
to the dating sight management, so that they can address the situation.

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Match.com's Enraght-Moony counters that the behavior in the online world is no worse than offline. Indeed, demand for online dating continues to be strong as the acceptance of it grows. In February, a survey by WeddingChannel.com found that 12% of engaged or married couples met online.

In order to attract customers, online dating services are trying to attract customers who are serious about meeting someone and leery of being victimized. They also are trying to differentiate themselves by adding premium services like more advanced matching.

Match.com's efforts have paid off. The company ended nine straight quarters of flat profit growth and boosted the number of paid subscribers by 19% in the third quarter to 1.17 million. Yahoo! doesn't provide membership figures. Membership gains were also seen by eHarmony.com and True.Com.

Fighting against scammers is a continual battle for the dating sites. Scammers can be difficult to catch because many are based overseas. Additionally, users often are embarrassed to admit that they have been conned. A news group, anti-spammers@groups.yahoo.com, has been formed on Yahoo! to monitor these scams.

"It's so damn easy to start a dating site," says David Evans, who runs the blog onlinedatinginsider.com. "You can put one up in an afternoon."