Lovoo: Captain leaves the ship.

CEO escaped and employees to be punished?
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/lovoo-benjamin-bak-geschaeftsfuehrer-ruecktritt
http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/06/27/lovoo-ceo-founder-benjamin-bak-resigns-following-arrest/

Only 477 fake profiles from inside at Lovoo since June 2013 to June 2014? 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/only-477-fake-profiles-from-inside-at.html
German Computer Magazine "C’t" previously said the brand used fake profiles to lure customers into paying for the dating site’s premium service.

Lovoo, to cooperate with police means to denounce other scammers/fraudsters like them?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/lovoo-to-cooperate-with-police-means-to.html
Dating service Lovoo intends to cooperate with investigators
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/dating-service-lovoo-intends-to.html
Cooperate? Lovoo should close forever. 

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Venntro: please remove all fake profiles and get out of the market.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/venntro-please-remove-all-fake-profiles.html

Fake profiles are wooing lonely hearts on sites far beyond AshleyMadison
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/fake-profiles-are-wooing-lonely-hearts.html

Big Five German Failures in the Online Dating Industry.

The Germans had tried to conquer the International Online Dating Industry with 5 proposals.

1) Parship. Nobody knows its brain, Dr. Hugo Schmale. Copycatted as eCift in Turkey
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/will-elitepartner-parship-merge.html

2) Be2. 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/09/the-power-of-word-of-mouth-killed-be2.html

3) FriendScout24 BQcheck. (BeziehungsQuotienten-Check ) Prof. Dr. Manfred Hassebrauck is the brain behind that test.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/iac-iaci-bought-european-online-dating.html

4) eDarling/EliteSingles, copycats of eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-silly.html

5) ElitePartner
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/will-elitepartner-parship-merge.html

and those 5 proposals were / are HOAXES and big failures.

Those 5 failures are / will be cases of study for "Stupid Investors' series"


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/two-silly-conferences-for-online-dating.html
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry. 

Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.

Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others. 

Even some of them could be creating fake profiles from inside, like AshleyMadison to entice prospective customers to subscribe.
EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html
EliteSingles USA: distribution ADULT men over 6' 6" tall (198.12 cm)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-distribution-adult-men.html

 
The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials.
I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.   

"These sophisticated scammers were able to hijack the PlentyOfFish"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/these-sophisticated-scammers-were-able.html

EXCLUSIVE: MATCH GROUP hacked? Leaked internal docs will reveal they create fake profiles from inside?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/exclusive-match-group-hacked-leaked.html

Complaints about Match dot com ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/complaints-about-match-dot-com.html


*** Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. *** ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html

 

article: Why 2016 Will Be an Even Scarier Year for Internet Security

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rami-essaid/why-2016-will-be-an-even-_b_9082320.html

Krebs on Security article: "A Look Inside Cybercriminal Call Centers"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/krebs-on-security-article-look-inside.html

Krebs on Security article: "A Look Inside Cybercriminal Call Centers"

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/01/a-look-inside-cybercriminal-call-centers/
http://globaldatinginsights.com/11012016-researcher-looks-inside-crooked-call-centres-dating-scams/

Krebs on Security article: Fraudsters Automate Russian Dating Scams 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/krebs-on-security-article-fraudsters.html

featured at OPW last April 2012, 2 years ago

2 years ago, I was featured at OPW.

That was an April Fools Day, but I really think every day is a Fools Day for daters.

I live in a South American country and I am really astonished to see how online daters in "1st World" countries are really victims of human experimentation. No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.

The Big Five (a.k.a. Five Factor, BIG 5 or OCEAN model) normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.  eHarmony is a 13+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud. The same for sites like them.



With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever because they are HOAXES based on a Big Scientific FRAUD.

What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test. 

Zoosk, Badoo and other social dating sites

Zoosk and Badoo seem to be the only alive social dating sites, but they are only for casual dating, for instant gratification; not for serious dating. They are using dishonest tactics to attract prospective paid members.

Other social dating sites closed and wasted tons of money because social discovering / social dating is illusory/vaporware.
People do not pay for social discovering, for finding new friends, they will pay only for high effective compatibility matching.
See failed proposals like 

• HowAboutWe 
• (LikeIt / TheCompleteMe) 
•  Comiingle 
•  LikeBright 
•  Perceptual Networks 
•  SKOUT  
• Zingl 
• Engage (then rebranded to Ignighter group dating, then rebranded again to StepOut)
• Thread
• Triangulate
• Gelato (then rebranded to Twnty)
• WooMe
• 12Like 
• LittleHint  
• SmartDate

Behavioural matching from social dating is a complete waste of time, because behavioural matching can not outperform personality matching methods.  Now in 2013 I think C-Level executives from the Online Dating Industry do not want to innovate and offer a high effective/efficiency compatibility matching algorithm, because they are like burglars who are stealing the money of the daters, they scam daters with automatic rebilling trickery.

fake profiles for online dating sites

Just received an email offering a bunch of fake profiles to fill online dating databases.

Please read

Badoo mysteries (part 1)
Badoo mysteries (part 2)
Badoo mysteries (part 3) 
Badoo Brazil / Badoo Brasil

How to detect fake profiles in Argentina & Uruguay

3 big South American failed proposals. 

The White Label Dating enigma / part 3

The White Label Dating enigma / part 2
The White Label Dating enigma / part 1

HOAX ALERT! MatchMatrix

It seems those scammers do not understand and insist.
Dr. James Houran had debunked MatchMatrix last February 2010.

IT IS A HOAX BASED ON MODIFIED Biorhythms, ONLY THAT.
IT IS NOT SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN.

I remember I tested MatchMatrix during last July 2009 and I discovered "Friends" and "Lovers" outputs are combinations of a "modified" Biorhythms comparison!

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And MOONIT is another HOAX based on Astrological Destiny.

Power Balance Bracelets lawsuit

Power Balance, the company that allegedly duped athletes into believing its bracelets could provide super-human strength, is about to take a USD57 Million hit in a lawsuit filed by people who called BS on the product.

The same could happen to the Online Dating Industry
Match: Fake Profiles Lawsuit
eHarmony; claims of scientifically proven
MatchMatrix claims of energetic compatibility
and many more!
because the entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with low successful rates.
The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials.

The writer and journalist Lori Gottlieb (March 2006) noted about the growing number of Internet dating sites that are using the science of attraction to match singles: "their efforts mark the early days of a social experiment of unprecedented proportions, involving millions of couples and possibly extending over the course of generations"

Are the online daters victims of human experimentation ?

The ineffectiveness of

The ineffectiveness of speed dating and why you should not pay for a dating service

I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

ONLY ONE ROAD TO ACHIEVE INNOVATIONS  
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

victims of human experimentation ?

The writer and journalist Lori Gottlieb (March 2006) noted about the growing number of Internet dating sites that are using the science of attraction to match singles: "their efforts mark the early days of a social experiment of unprecedented proportions, involving millions of couples and possibly extending over the course of generations"

In a previous post I had also written about "The horse named Jim in the Online Dating Industry."
The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with low successful rates.
The Online Dating Industry is performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created. The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine.

The Online Dating Industry is waiting for the innovative compatibility matching method which can kill the Matchmaking Industry and other Offline Dating Proposals.

Actual online dating sites offering compatibility matching methods are only fueled by big marketing budgets and not by serious scientific evidence. No one ( eHarmony, Chemistry, PerfectMatch, PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor, MeeticAffinity, Be2, RewardingLove, Parship, True, etc) can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer_reviewed Scientific Paper. They are all like placebo, because
* Actual online dating sites offering compatibility matching methods, when calculating compatibility between prospective mates, have less or at least the same precision as searching on one's own. [in the range of 3 or 4 persons compatible per 1,000 persons screened]
* That is because they use:
a) simplified versions of personality traits, instead of the 16PF5 or similar with the complete inventory (16 variables)
b) inadequate quantitative methods to calculate compatibility between prospective mates, like eHarmony which uses Dyadic Adjustment Scale or other sites which use multivariate linear / logistic regression equations o other equations.

To solve that problem I propose:
*) the 16PF5 or similar normative personality test to measure personality of normal persons over 26 years old interested in serious dating.
No actual online dating site offering compatibility matching methods uses the 16PF5 normative test available in different languages.
*) a new quantitative method to calculate compatibility between prospective mates, based on quantized pattern comparison (part of pattern recognition by correlation) named LIFEPROJECT method.
The value of my algorithm is to achieve far more precision than searching on one's own [in the range of 3 persons compatible per 100,000 persons screened, 100 times better than actual competitors]
and
try to prove if only high level on  personality*  similarity* between mates is the core of relationship stability and satisfaction for normal persons over 26 years old interested in serious dating.
*personality: measured with the 16PF5 normative test in different languages.
*similarity: calculated using the method I had invented, LIFEPROJECT method.