Maybe I was lucky or Idont know, but I wills say in my experience this website is real.
I read other comment below saying that men only sit on their butt and wait for the women to do the forst move, bu honestly I dont know how this person did it or how was her/ his age or appearance but in my case this is completely inaccurate.
I went straight forward and decide what I was looking for: age, looks, nacionality religion and even if they have or not kids ( which for me was in important). I showed my profile pics and send it, to be honest Im not the kind of woman who does the firs move, never did in my real life why doiung it in a website (I had my doubts ant that satge) so I waited for man, and messages starting to poor one after another, I wouldnt say that I spoke to everyone but the ones I spoke to had good conversation, days passed by until I found the person that for me was THE ONE (at least the one to keep on contact with)
We spoke on the site for couple days, than over whatsapp then week after over Skype, I confirmed we was not a Psycho and then big step, meeting in person across the continents, couple times I went to see him, he came to my country 2 years later we are married. So I think it works deoending what you are looking for and whats your actitud at the moment to get into those sites, Im not saying that some peopole or porfiles are scam but in my case it turned out the best decision in my life!

Ok, I gave this site three stars because it is the only site I have tried that actually turned up a real woman behaving like a sane human being and willing to work at a relationship like an adult rather than a 13 year old. HOWEVER, there are a couple of things users have to understand to get the most out of this site.

First, men can't just sit on their butt and wait for a woman they like to respond. You have to go out and make the effort and the first move. If you are 50 seeking a 20 year old, that means a lot of girls are not going to reply. Fdating isn't quite the real world, but it is a hellofa lot closer than the pay to communicate sites. Men have to make the first move to get the girl they want, and the girls on FDating are not paid to correspond with you so if they are not interested, they won't respond.

Making the first move is also likely to cut down on the number of scammers you have to deal with. Of the women who first-responded to my profile, over 80% were scammers. Of the women I contacted first and then responded, that number dropped to less than 30%. So yes, there is a scammer problem but it is somewhat controllable and less of a problem than on most of the other sites.

Second, most "advice" sites tell you to use the correspondence tools of the dating site and not to go to a private e-mail account. I don't know who is giving this advice, but if you are doing your diligence and using initial e-mail correspondence to get info and set up a face to face date AND as your scam filter, getting to a specially set up gmail account is your best weapon to uncovering the scammers. Better yet, get them on skype or some other network that allows direct contact, preferably with video. Anyone sincere about a relationship should be willing to do this. If they refuse to communicate with you other than through e-mail or the site this should raise flags to proceed carefully, and that person should be blacklisted if any additional suspicions are raised.

Finally, and this applies to all internet contacts, you must be disciplined in your approach. NEVER send money. NEVER send account information. NEVER be a conduit for mail or shipments. The whole scammer game is to try to get you to think a person attractive to you loves you, and that if you loved them you would trust them. You should assume you are being lied to until you have a face to face and can assess the situation in person. Your attitude should also be that YOU are the prize, not this person you have never actually seen! Don't believe the pictures they give you until you see the real person in the photos and good luck.

BTW, the moniker is obviously not me. It is one of the photos sent to me by a scammer and when put through several independent scam screens turned up as a common picture used by scams. This girl is very attractive and I now have a catalogue of pictures of her from scammers ranging from when she was just a teen to a much more mature lady in her 30's, and that is just in the past two months!

It´s a free website, 100% free, hence the 3 stars. 98% of the profiles are scammers. I have used this website on and off for 5 years for fun, and important to note is; 1) I never met anyone in person from this website. 2) I´ve written to well over 20k members in 5+ years and have probably talked to 100 real people on skype. 3) Many of the girls who are real are not really looking for relationships, they are looking for English conversations, although they say relationship so you will practice your English with them. Many are also not interested in leaving Russia. 4) Any profile where the girl looks gorgeous is a scammer. Every girl I spoke to there on skype with cam and speakers was average looking. 5) About 1 our of 100 scammers there use cam and speakers on skype. You can notice they are scammers by these things; Either they have no microphone but a video only, - their behavior and the way they are dressed (the non-scammers do make themselves look nice, maybe where a scarf, when they are talking to you the first time. Appearance is extremely important for Russian girls even on cam... the scammers are a bit sloppy and trashy ie they seem less educated which is easy to tell - anbother example is the scammers will eat while talking to you, real russian girls would not dare do this on cam the first time they talk to you), - anyone who messages and says they do not have skype or a microphone or cam is a scammer, - any girl not from Ukraine or Russia on this website is a scammer. 100% guaranteed. - Lastly, before joining this website go to a language exchange website like interpals, talk to some people from there on cam and speakers so you see how real russian girls behave on cam and how they sound. Only then can you quickly tell when you actually talk or see a scammer fromj fdating (P.S. Interpals sucks, and is only for friendship, but get familair with russian girls before you get scammed).
All in all this is a decent website considering it is free, and your expectations have to be low ie you won´t meet models and chances are very high that you can only talk to 2-3 girls every month on cam on skype, and they will not be wanting to leave russia.
As far as the above comments, anyone who leaves this website a high mark, or anyone whos ays they met girls from this website, are being paid by the website to write those reviews. No sane person can say this website has less than 98% scammers.