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Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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This site is absolute garbage. These people are the catfish you should beware of. I couldn't get any data I looked up to come up whatsoever an when I tried to cancel before the trial was over they still charged me for a full subscription an they refuse to refund me even tho I clearly stopped using them as soon as I saw that it was useless. Do not throw your money away on these jerks when you try to call to get refunded the first thing that comes up is a recording automatically talking about canceling.but you never talk to anybody. This is a scam an I will be reporting to the better buisness burea. You guts are jerks an should be ashamed

Date of experience: December 21, 2023
Texas
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Best in the business
February 27, 2023

I would be in a world of hurt if not for Social Catfish. They have enabled me to uncover scammer after scammer. I belong to dating sites and investigate nearly all those I have met on them. Those I did not investigate left our chat before I found it necessary. Sometimes just telling the person you are talking to that you use Social Catfish is enough to curtail their interest. I highly recommend this site for all the other issues, criminal and personal, that one might have with whomever they are dealing.

Date of experience: February 26, 2023
Indiana
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Social Catfish promised the best facial recognition search to identify the person in the picture. Its first page spends a lot of time with bogus scanning of the photograph and different databases (which could have been searched in nanoseconds) leading you on to believe it's performing a comprehensive search. Then it wants money to show you the results. Promises for a small fee, you get this report and five days of unlimited searches. But when you pay the money, all it does is show you some possible similar images and then wants you to pay additional fees for each little bit of additional information -- name, email, address, social sites, etc. I searched a mid-twenties young white mail. Some of the "similar" pictures shown to me were partial faces, older men, and even a black male. For all I know, the quality of the additional information items for sale is just as worthless as the reverse image search. I got better results with a free Google Images reverse search.

Date of experience: June 3, 2022
Canada
1 review
18 helpful votes
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I have to say that this site can be frustrating and yes, they certainly do charge extra even after you've paid the monthly fee, I have the bank statements and search history to prove it. That being said, its a site to warn about potential "catfish" so it stands to reason they'd soak you for money just like a catfish would. After all they say that humans start to look like their dogs after while.

Date of experience: July 14, 2021
Canada
1 review
33 helpful votes
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A total waste of money!
February 12, 2021

A totally useless site, save your money! I did a background check on MYSELF, a friend, and then the person I was interested in doing a background check on. All the information I received was basically; known phone numbers and possible addresses, nothing else! NO other information or pictures, even though all 3 of us had been on dating sites for over a year? I could have found the same information by using my telephone directory online.

Date of experience: February 12, 2021
David M. Social Catfish Rep
over a year old

Hi Mark - We don't do background checks at all. We help aggregate public information online. So, if someone was private on another website (eg. Their pictures), we wouldn't have it on our site. While we make every effort to make sure that the data is always up to date, it's always a work in progress. Most people are pretty happy with the amount of information we have, though.

Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It didn't work for me
September 3, 2023

I was looking for information on a girl I met. Did a reverse image search. Cocial Catfish didn't find anything on her. I used her Facebook profile foto, twitter profile photo and LinkedIn profile photo and it didn;t even return those. Each seach returned about 1500 other similar photos but in my opinion, this does not work. I then did a search on myself. Nothing. Same, used my Facebook profile photo. Nothing. Not hits. Returned about 1500 other photos, nothing even similar to how I look. Im not Social Catfish is actually legit.

Date of experience: September 3, 2023
South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It was an amazing, eye opening experience. The knowledge that they possess to obtain information when everyone else had failed is exceptional. The whole telling my story was handled so professionally and with kindness. I won't be online dating EVER again. Social Catfish's is hands down fabulous to work with.

Date of experience: December 19, 2021
Tennessee
1 review
2 helpful votes
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No help
April 26, 2023

I am looking for specific pictures taken of me at walmart dollar tree and in my bathroom. I asked about assistance and i am told for a fee i can do a reverse lookup only if the pictures were posted on their website. If these postings are private which they are then i would have to pay another fee for them to locate then what? I want the pictures removed extracted. These men several maintenance guys an EMS worker in Port Huron and a car salesman in Grand Blanc to stop posting! I need the site that's the purpose of the search. No real assistance just lip service. This is no more than a google search except you are paying for jacked up service! And clearly taking advantage desperate people shame on you!

Date of experience: April 26, 2023
Florida
2 reviews
27 helpful votes
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Grand Rip off Scheme
February 25, 2023

I went to Social Catfish to check on a person who was scamming me. Unfortunately I fell victim to the sites own scam.
After paying $5.99 charge for just one time search they charged me twice. Then proceeded to to charge me Again twice for Subscription of
$27.48
$26.99
Even I clearly indicated in my email
That I do not Wish to enroll in a Subscription.
It's a total fraudulent Site stay away.

Date of experience: February 25, 2023
California
1 review
39 helpful votes
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Waste of money and time
June 25, 2021

Do not waste your time and money, they never get anything right and no matter what type of subscription you pay for, its never enough, they always hit you up for more money to see no additional information that they claim to have.

Do not believe any of the positive reviews you read, I I guarantee you they are written by employees or people who are hired to say good things about this ripoff company.

Date of experience: June 25, 2021

Overview

Social Catfish has a rating of 2 stars from 70 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Social Catfish most frequently mention and reverse image. Social Catfish ranks 1642nd among Business sites.

service
43
value
42
shipping
19
returns
24
quality
37
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