Plenty of Fish

I joined POF on the 10th of Sept and upgraded. I had met several people and a mutual interest existed. We made appointments for tentative dates. THEN - - on the 13th of the month while I was exchanging msgs with a friend, she suddenly noticed odd questions asked of her and that I would never ask her. The person asked for her phone# and address saying he had lots it. Sadly she gave it to him.
She called me and I checked my profile. Some guy had posted his pics to MY account, he then contacted well over 100 women (at last count) he then changed MY Date of birth to his, MY location to his (in another country) changed work and income status, Then MY name to his. I tried to contact POF "Customer Care" and wrote very polite letters (3) asking them to help. Finally I could not even access my own account at all! He had changed the password and eventually the user name! That was three days ago. I still have not heard a word from POF! ***This guy now has MY name, phone, address, photo's, e-mail info, credit card info and anything else I provided POF with.**** Apparently they are not concerned. But he has contacted several people I know as personal friends and got some of their into as well. My integrity is at risk, my personal ID, my credit score, etc. ALL potentially gone!
A company with concern for their clients personal information and safety would take ALL necessary actions to prevent this crime and protect the client. POF doesn't even call or write you back. The first two days I was happy with them... NOW - I URGE YOU TO STAY COMPLETELY AWAY FROM THEM and yes legal ramifications are in the works as I write this.

As an older gentelman at 50, I was looking for a younger gal to start a family with, ergo necessitating a yonger woman. I chose the age parameters between 24 (not likely) to 34 (probable).
Happens all the time... right?
POF paraded a large range of younger women within that age range before me deluding me into thinking I could contact them. So I upgraded.
Wow... big mistake.
I tried to contact the SAME women, but was told that THEY (the women) didnt accept messages from certain users.
Hmmm... then why were they displayed?
I was suggested that I go to MY matches instead. HUH? WHAT THE.? Thats what I thought I was doing!
What the devil is going on here.
I went to my matches button and no woman younger than 36 was displayed, and most were OVER 48.
Cant have a family in that age range... so now Im pissed. I dont like being steered into old bat territory when Im CLEAR in my age parameters what im looking for.
I Emailed POF asking what is going on, and they told me I couldnt contact women more than 14 years younger than me.
WHAT THE HECK... Im not 10 years old, and I dont need anyone taking my money and then not providing the service they claimed.
POF specified that the WOMEN only allow certain people to contact them... which is catagorically FALSE.
POF does not allow it.
The legal term is "Bait and Switch", and I believe the crime is called embezzelment.
Im seeking to start a class action lawsuit against these scammers.
If you can be helpful or want to be a part of it, contact me at:
*******@yahoo.com ( dont knock the title... im a great roller skater)
Gregory V. Henley on FB... look for the Conservative Patriot colbalt blue logo and that is me. Im the first one to come up as I have the most online presence.
Regards Greg
NO STARS

I seem to be batting a thousand when it comes to Dating sites, I've already gotten the boot from 2 or 3 and it seems as if I'll have two more notches to put on my belt.
My complaint about plentyoffish pretty much mirrors that of DateHookup.
When I first began my membership with PoF I immediately visited the forums. I chose the General b. S and wrote in response to a woman who was trying to get some creep that was text and Emailing her constantly, to stop. She said she didn't want to hurt his "feelings". I told her of the perfect way to not only make him cease and desist but would have him running for the hills. I recommended that she portray herself as stark raving mad. I told her to text him saying: I TOLD YOU TO STOP F#$KING SPYING ON ME! Yeah, that's right, you didn't think I saw you crawling from under my kitchen sink last night and peeking under my bedroom door. If you EVER follow me around Walmart again I'm going to grab me a Louisville slugger and bash your f*%&in head in, and so forth.
Well after I wrote that rather lengthy response and posted it a message popped up stating that because I was new my use of questionable language wasn't allowed and besides that I couldn't post anything until I had been a member for 7 days. I was proud of the restraint I had shown when I emailed them.
That restraint did a Jimmy Hoffa today. I was happily dispensing my sage advice(okay, okay mostly farcical and sardonic) to the lovelorn and just plain screwy when a message came on screen informing me that I was banned from posting for 3 DAYS! They claimed I had insulted a member by suggesting that maybe the problem wasn't with his girlfriend but perhaps he should consider that it's because he's an $#*!. I had written that 2 days before.
I almost tore the keys off my computer writing them a scathing diatribe that I'm sure has banished me forever.
I do have one good thing to say about PoF they do provide an Email address

I recently had s very bad experience on this site. It was my first time on a dating site & I do admit to being naive about the whole thing. One of the first guys to message me was a guy called ste. He seemed genuine & we gelled right away. I agreed to meet up the day after (much too soon) saying that though our initial date was a success and he seemed just as nice in person. We messaged frequently & there were no sexual innuendos it was all fun and lighthearted. We went on a proper 2nd date a few days later & again it was enjoyable, he even had me back home for before 10. Then cane the weirdness, his messages got more & more frequent & intense (still no sexual references but references to his he was 'falling for me' etc. being the hopeless romantic that I am I fell for this and then when he realised this the message did have sexual references and on our third proper date (a week later after 3 mini get togethers inbetween, all requested by him) we slept togeth (big naive mistake on my part). From that moment I felt in my gut that things were different, he messaged less frequently & I seemed to b the one initiating text conversations. We met again one final time & again slept togeth. I was smitten but deep in my gut knew s'thing wasn't right. Again messages on his part were infrequent with me seeming to do all the work (and prob sounding quite desparate I'm ashamed to admit). A week later I popped onto pof with the intention to delete my account & who should pop up with a whole new profile & online just seconds after responding to a text from me. I confronted him about this with no response. Just avoid a guy who now goes under the username of 'Cheekyste' from Wolverhampton & has himself & his daughter on his main pic. He's a player, a complete charmer and a liar and I fell for his charm completely.

In most cases we are rating the people on the site rather than the site itself. The site is clunky and outdated but you can search, message, and retrieve messages so for free you cant really complain about that!

I think that I am at least an average looking 49 year old woman. I have a great job, own my home, stable children, a good home life, financially stable, friendly, and very active. I don't frequent the bars or into any drugs use. So with that said I do not believe that dating sites are going to be the way that I will meet a man who has a similar life style. So much of the online world is based on similar interests and life style but the infamous "I like the outdoors" and even more often I am seeing "ask me" in the profiles rather than someone taking a few minutes to actually put some thought into it is telling me that we are really just looking at the pictures... As an FYI, the "ask me" are to be avoided... just trust me on that!

I met 4 men in the past 2 months from this site. 4 out of 4 of them when I asked for a recent picture the time span ranged from 3 months old to several years. 3 out of 4 when we met I did not recognize from the pictures. Honestly my pictures are within the current month so I don't understand.

Scary interactions -
The guy who sent a picture with maybe 10 Rx bottles next to him and living in someone's basement. Created a new profile after I blocked him and contacted me again.

Another guy who's profile picture was so different from what he sent me on my phone and he didn't actually live in the state that he claimed got angry with me when I told him the his misrepresentation scared me and there was no way that I would want to meet him in person.

I respect the law and law enforcement so the next thing that I am going to mention is very bothersome. I chatted with 2 men in law enforcement that both asked for pictures that I was not comfortable with taking/sharing. They were both very disrespectful and insisted. I did not comply and obviously did not meet in person either one of them... wow.

Several men who wanted to sex text... especially those who message you after 11PM.

The married men... get the call reverse app folks and a phone number early on do your homework!

All of this in a matter of 8 weeks on a dating site. Way more drama and way less fun than I expected. So I am no longer a member of any site and will live my life single until something unexpected happens like we did before the digital age. Be careful out there!

My first POF account started out of the blue and for no valid reason being locked out one day. After months of back and forth communications (most responses from pof were generic) I had found that my email address had been changed on the account by someone other than me. This still did not explain the months prior where I kept getting locked out of using messaging service. After pof did nothing to correct this I deleted the account thinking if I opened a new account the problem would resolve. So I deleted the old and started a new account. Within the first day of opening the new account I was o EC again locked out of the services for messaging that I had provided my personal I go and images to use. So this makes me question what my I go and images are being collected for if I am not being provided the service I signed up for? With this account being a few weeks old now I have had less than a day of not being locked out. Again multiple emails to customer service and generic responses telling me my account is fixed and shouldn't happen again but this allows less than an hour access and it locks out again. So is the site secure? Is my information being gathered for other purposes as I am surely not getting the access I should for the reason this info was provided in the first place? And of course no one to contact or escalate a complaint. For a tech based company this is seriously not acceptable.

This website should be banned, WAY TO DAMN MANY SCAMMERS and sex traffickers' AND CATFISH on this site.