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North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Kandjurow123@yahoo. Com
February 6, 2021

I made a profile on this site and paid using pay pal i chose the 3:99 payment just to try the site they charged me another 3:99 and then they charged me 39:99 without my permission if anyone would like to talk to me about this please call Kevin at *******167.DO NOT LET THEM GET YOU.

Date of experience: February 6, 2021
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hey Kevin,

We are sorry to hear about this. Our payment plans are subscription-based meaning every time they run out they will automatically renew themselves.
Please try turning your subscriptions off to successfully stop these payments from going out.
If you need any assistance please reach out to us on@BadooHelp and we can look into this together.

-BadooHelp

Serbia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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It is enough for someone to false report you to get warning, and after that to be blocked.
Moderators are irrational, and something like "i dont like you" is considered hate speech and you will get permanently banned in a minutes. YOU WILL NOT GET REFUND if they decided that your answer to someone "sorry, i dont like asians" is hate speech, and just like that your account will be terminated, WHILE YOUR CREDIT CARD CONTINUE TO BE CHARGED. Just escape and NEVER REGISTER on this scam site, where there a lot of fake profiles anyway.

Date of experience: March 28, 2022
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hey Nicolas,

We are sorry that you feel this way. We only block anyone that violates our guidelines: https://badoo.com/guidelines/.
But if you believe we have made a mistake, please do reach out to us, and we will review. However, if your account was blocked correctly, the decision will not be reversed.

We are so sorry to hear that your credit card was charged afterwards. All subscriptions are automatically switched off when a member has been blocked to prevent any further charges. Please get in touch with us on@BadooHelp or https://badoo.com/feedback/, and we can look into this for you.

Hope to hear from you soon.

-BadooHelp

GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Rip off
March 11, 2016

Badoo took money from my account then blocked me. I have one phone number only (mobile), which they validated when I opened my account. Now they say its incorrect, so I can't logon. Rip off twats.

Date of experience: March 11, 2016
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Badoo scammed me
December 27, 2020

I was going through my transaction history on my bank and I realized I was being charged 2.99 20 days a month for the last three months by Badoo, I have never even installed this application.

Date of experience: December 27, 2020
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hi Elijah,
Badoo never charges anyone for a service they've not requested, so we'll be happy to look into this for you. Please send us a Private Message on social media@BadooHelp or use our contact form - badoo.com/feedback. Thank you!
-BadooHelp

Canada
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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- You have to pay to send a message to "popular" (i. E., attractive) members
- You can only message six to ten new people per day for free
- You can't hide the fact you visited someone's profile without paying for that feature (POF lets you do so for free)
- Search results come up in random order and no way to tell which profiles you've already seen, so you wind up clicking on the same profiles over and over
- Search results only display those profiles for which your age falls within their search criteria; change your age, and you get a whole different set of results (POF only allows an age differential of 14 years maximum, but at least they're honest and open about it)
- You can set up a profile using the website without a phone number for verification. The next time you try to log in, they demand SMS verification. If you don't have a cell phone, you can't verify, your profile and pics stay up indefinitely and you can't do anything about it.
- Any e-mail or skype address you give them or even type into the chat gets harvested and sold to spammers. I assume the same thing happens with cell phone numbers.

In summary, this service is run by people with zero ethics (Russians, apparently) and they are now in pillage mode of doing anything to make a buck off it. Best to move on to better and more honest dating sites/apps - POF, Tinder, Match, whatever, anything else would be better.

Date of experience: February 12, 2016
GB
1 review
14 helpful votes
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EX SOLDIER
February 10, 2015

EX SOLDIER - IAN - SHEFFIELD AREA - AGE 49 - Had a date with this guy he was late, didn't give to much away about him self? And didn't ask me about my self all he was intrested in was my chest, getting me into bed which he didn't and wanted me to send him a rude pic! Very strange guy. Now blocked him... be ware ladies!. He's not funny, no personality, his teeth are green lol yuuk. This chap needs stricking off all dating sites, and he's on many, he just spoils it for every decent guys on these sites..

Date of experience: February 10, 2015
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very bad sire and it looks some profiles are not real but used to have men sign membership. I do not trust that sire at all. O would not recommend to anyone

Date of experience: May 18, 2021
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hey Gilkes,

We're so sorry to hear you may have come across some suspicious profiles on our platform. We have systems in place to quickly identify suspicious behaviour as well as a team of moderators that working hard 24/7 to ensure we are building a safe space for everyone to Date Honestly.

However, we also count on the support of the community -if something doesn't feel right, please report it! We take the security of our users very seriously and do our best to implement the most effective solutions to remove these profiles.

- BadooHelp

Lithuania
1 review
10 helpful votes
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They are $#*!ing thieves. I get many replies and meeting with Free Tinder, while I didn't even get more than 2 visits to my profile page at the Paid version of badoo, although I sent likes 60-70 girls and messages to many girls...

And they keep asking you to pay more to be on top of the list or something; my suspicion is they force you to pay much more to be seen in girls' inbox; then why did I $#*!ing pay before?

$#*!ING THIEVES, SOMEBODY MUST STOP THEM...

Date of experience: May 11, 2017
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hi there!

We're sorry you've had this experience with us. We're unsure what you're referring to, but we can go through the different premium services we offer to find the right one for you. However, Badoo is free to use and all messages will be delivered regardless of your account status. Please send us a private message including the email address linked to your account (you can do this on any of our social media platforms) and we'll look into this for you.

We hope this helps!

GB
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Badoo con artists
February 21, 2018
Updated review

The representative from Badoo DID NOT get in touch with me after saying he would, well badoo did indeed contact me by lifting £119:99 from my bank account yesterday, NOT HAPPY :( and unless money is returned shall contact the newspapers abt then taking money from a disabled man who accidentally clicked that when he didnt mean to

Date of experience: February 21, 2018
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hey Brian!

We have sent you a private message with a resolution to this.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if there's anything else we can do for you.


Total RIPOFF!
February 16, 2018
Previous review

All they are interested in is fleecing you! I have MS and I accidentally swiped to buy Badoo Premium for LIFE! And it has cost me £120! My motorskills and co-ordination at times are pretty bad I didnt mean to buy this service. Badoo customer services said that it couldnt be resolved so I have had to now get paypal involved, I am now worried and anxious as I am going to have to put more money in my bank account to cover this, I wouldnt be surprised if this causes an MS Relapse. All Badoo are interested in is TAKING YOUR MONEY! If Indeed this is not resolved I shall be contacting the newspapers, I am not happy I didnt mean to swipe to buy badoo premium for life! In fact I have had enough of this site period it is an expensive waste of time.

Date of experience: February 16, 2018
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I went online first time on Badoo talking to this one female she had a UK accent she gave me a bogus number that was it a VoIP computer internet number she told me she was from Toronto bull$#*! warning to all users especially females don't bother going on there it's all bull crap people they're trying to scam you and I'm a guy and some girl sent me some fake sexy pics lied about her life lied about everything told me she never had a kid and then I found out she had a kid clearly it's a scam clearly it's a fraud by using words like baby deer honey darling nobody talks like that it's fake stay away I hope you guys understand that there could be real people but because of people like that they ruin it for everybody else

Date of experience: August 3, 2018
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Thank you for your feedback.

As Badoo is a free website to join, in some cases there are individuals who create profiles on our site with false intentions. We take the security of our users very seriously and assure you that we do our best to implement the most effective solutions to remove these profiles from Badoo. To assist us in this process, we encourage you to report any profiles to us that you may find suspicious.

We also recommend that you visit the following page to find some safety and security tips: badoo.com/safetytips

We apologize for any inconvenience, and please let us know if you have any further questions.

Badoo Team

Overview

Badoo has a rating of 1.3 stars from 582 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Badoo most frequently mention fake profiles, credit card and phone number. Badoo ranks 501st among Social Network sites.

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