Guardia Civil Española to investigate Tinder and other dating apps

https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2019/03/05/actualidad/1551775362_888940.html

About Skout case with minors/teens.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/about-skout-case-with-minorsteens.html 

Online dating platform Venntro + Investigation by the UK CMA.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/online-dating-platform-venntro.html

Match Group, Inc. (MTCH) 2018 financials
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/match-group-inc-mtch-2018-financials.html
In February 2019, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom, indicated in public comments that his office intends to inquire as to the measures utilized by online dating platforms, including Tinder, to prevent access by underage users. To the extent any new or more stringent measures are required to be implemented, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.

ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/thispersondoesnotexistcom-uses-ai-to.html

Revealed: the child victims of Tinder and other dating apps
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/revealed-child-victims-of-tinder-and.html

New US Government Task Force to Target Tech Monopolies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-us-government-task-force-to-target.html

If CupidPLC is still Ukrainian mafia operating in the UK?

http://max-polyakov.xyz/take-%d1%81upid-plc-investors-work-max-polyakov.html
http://micetimes.asia/max-polyakov-oligarch-ukraine-covert-porn-empire/
http://luxherald.com/2407-flying-phoenix-nest.html
http://max-polyakov.xyz/who-is-this-site-about
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2013/07/cupid-sells-casual-dating-sites-for-43-million.html
How Alexa shows BBC of London UK incinerated Cupid PLC.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/how-alexa-shows-bbc-of-london-uk.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/how-profile-verification-helps.html

The UK CMA is investigating suspected breaches of consumer protection law by a company in the online dating sector.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/11/about-article-i-paid-gbp-3000-to-dating.html

They shoud also investigate Badoo and Venntro, both based in UK.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/11/feminist-linkedin-by-bumble-backed-by.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/online-dating-company-venntro-eyes.html

Is it a big joke? Venntro Joins UK Online Dating Association As Member

http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/10/24/venntro-joins-online-dating-association-member/

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
but before return  all the money you had stolen.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/venntro-trying-to-take-daters-to-next.html http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/article-love-business-how-venntro.html

Which is the real purpose of UK ODA? To protect and serve thieves?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/which-is-real-purpose-of-uk-oda-to.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate ElevatedCareers by eHarmony for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate Instant Chemistry Inc. and Gemetrics for SCIENTIFIC FRAUD, misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-instant.html 

FT article: Unsealed papers in VW scandal reveal panic among engineers

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9bac3826-76af-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a.html

The discrepancies first came to light in March 2014, when a West Virginia University study raised questions about the real-world emissions of some VW cars.

According to the case against Mr Liang, he and his team reacted to that study by pursuing “a strategy to disclose as little as possible” about the illegal software. They “intentionally made . . . false and fraudulent statements” to the Environmental Protection Agency and CARB to make the discrepancies appear as if they were “innocent mechanical and technological problems”.

With more time, it became “abundantly clear” something was off, because the car being tested was running “more cleanly when it was cold than when it was hot, contrary to all tenets of automotive engineering,” the official said.

In the spring and summer of 2015, regulators improved their testing to effectively trick the cars into thinking they were on the open road. As a result the VW cars responded by emitting higher levels of NOx. The regulators soon discovered what appeared to be “a second set of commands” — one set for being on the road, another for test conditions.

The regulators soon discovered what appeared to be “a second set of commands” — one set for being on the road, another for test conditions.
Perhaps quite similar to this situation.
But when he paid the money and logged back on, he was crushed to discover that not a single one of the profiles he’d been shown could be contacted. This was because they were “registered” and not “paying” members. In total, the site offered the man four suitable profiles “in his area” – none of which met his criteria. One of them lived hundreds of miles away in Ireland and would be unreachable without an expensive ferry or plane journey.

When the man complained to Elite Singles, it refunded him without a fuss, as it has a 14-day refund policy. When contacted by Telegraph Money, Elite Singles admitted that disappointment over the number of paying members was a “very common” complaint.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/11497550/I-spent-1300-on-a-dating-agency-that-had-run-out-of-men.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/affinitas-gmbh-edarling-under-fraud.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/paper-age-trends-in-hexaco-pi-r-self.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/ft-articles-bank-hiring-wall-st-turns.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/emma-simon-had-folgueira-said-that-or.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/gdi-meets-ceo-of-thriving-premium.html

Lovoo: Captain leaves the ship.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/lovoo-captain-leaves-ship.html

Last May 2016, I 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.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html

Law article suggests USA FTC goes for Match Group ?

http://www.law.com/sites/almstaff/2016/07/05/lessons-from-the-ftcs-first-action-against-a-dating-website/?slreturn=20160606051331
USA Federal regulators are returning to the online dating world—and, this time, they have a bigger industry player in their sights. 

Match Group opened the umbrella before it rains?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/match-group-opened-umbrella-before-it.html

 
Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.  http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.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
 

Dating service Lovoo intends to cooperate with investigators

http://www.rp-online.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/lovoo-dating-dienst-will-mit-ermittlern-kooperieren-aid-1.6039910

 Cooperate? Lovoo should close forever.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/after-raid-with-lovoo.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/lovoo-investigation-ct-magazine-had.html
Like AshleyMadison and others.


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

Which is the real purpose of UK ODA? To protect and serve thieves?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/which-is-real-purpose-of-uk-oda-to.html

 

Suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate ElevatedCareers by eHarmony for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate Instant Chemistry Inc. and Gemetrics for SCIENTIFIC FRAUD, misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-instant.html  

Entrepreneur of the year? Laundering money? Now Young Director of the Year?

Now also Global Personals CEO Ross Williams Wins IoD Young Director of the Year?
http://www.globaldatinginsights.com/16062014-global-personals-ceo-ross-williams-wins-iod-young-director-of-the-year/

Please remember:
Global Personals Ltd. owns White Label which had been proven by Journalists to invent fake profiles. After UK Channel 4 investigation "Fools for love: how an internet dating firm duped clients" last November 2012, that company should had been closed and Management Team sent to jail!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/no-mention-to-ods-conference-no-photos.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2012/11/uk-global-personals-allegedly-uses-fake-profiles.html
http://www.channel4.com/news/fools-for-love-how-one-internet-dating-firm-dupes-clients
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/the-white-label-dating-enigma-part-2.html

OR

Who really owns Global Personals? The MI6?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/who-really-owns-global-personals.html


I can not understand how a thief can win prizes in the UK!

USA DOJ Announces Criminal Charge Against Toyota Motor Corporation

and Deferred Prosecution Agreement with USD1.2 Billion Financial Penalty.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2014/March/14-ag-286.html
the company defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
 http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-source-us-announce-12b-toyota-settlement-22965834
Do you remember ... ? Dannon's Activia, DanActive health claims draw USD21 Million fine.
Power Balance Bracelets lawsuit.
The PIP breast implants scandal.
The 2010 was the year of the "PIP scandal". Thousands of women throughout the world carrying a time bomb: prosthesis with uncertified gel, increased risk of rupture and leak into ganglions, increase risk of developing capsular contractures.
Also "Reebok Had to Pay USD25 Million in Customer Refunds To Settle FTC Charges of Deceptive Advertising of EasyTone and RunTone Shoes! "  

A similar case is eHarmony,  a 13 years old site claiming to be "scientifically proven", and they have not got any proof of that!

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.

Imagine a NEW Legislation for Online Dating Sites to force them disclose how many active members they have (Premium members: paid or with gift subscriptions) ?
And also force them to conduct ID verification ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/08/new-legislation-for-online-dating-sites.html
That will improve dramatically the Online Dating Industry!

MyIPMS says EliteSingles UK version has only 4,940 visitors per day

See by your own in this link (EliteSingles UK version):
http://myip.ms/view/sites/2956368/elitesingles.co.uk
Website Popularity: 4,940 visitors per day! Can you please contact Affinitas GmbH. and ask them if they can explain me how EliteSingles UK can deliver those very tall matches???
They CAN NOT be real, because to deliver over 160 men (average 7 feet  210 cm height) to the dummy female (7 feet  210 cm) I created last July 2013 for test purposes, the database should be over 120 million active members!!!
TWICE THE WHOLE POPULATION OF THE ENTIRE U.K. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/just-received-new-legal-letter-from.html

A former employee of Affinitas GmbH. that says in a review they create fake profiles from inside?

http://myip.ms/view/sites/15381/edarling.es
Website Popularity: 24,800 visitors per day

http://myip.ms/view/sites/12989/edarling.de
Website Popularity: 20,600 visitors per day

http://myip.ms/view/sites/25350/edarling.fr
Website Popularity: 19,900 visitors per day

http://myip.ms/view/sites/3951073/elitesingles.com.au
Website Popularity: 3,960 visitors per day

See 38 sites from Affinitas GmbH.
http://myip.ms/browse/sites/1/dns/9410
Please see:
Partnerbörsen im Clinch (January 2012)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/partnerborsen-im-clinch-january-2012.html
I recommend a complete independent audit in Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/i-recommend-complete-independent-audit.html
Some forums with comments saying fake profiles at eDarling Spain
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/some-forums-with-comments-saying-fake.html
Affinitas GmbH. (eDarling / EliteSingles / PrestigeSingles / EliteRencontre ) in a 5th year itch ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/affinitas-gmbh-edarling-elitesingles.html
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For eHarmony
http://myip.ms/view/sites/3018/eharmony.com
Website Popularity: 152,000 visitors per day

For eHarmony UK version
http://myip.ms/info/whois/198.41.208.62/k/3735932400/website/www.eharmony.co.uk
Website Popularity: 14,200 visitors per day

For eHarmony Brazil to be closed soon
http://myip.ms/info/whois/198.41.208.59/k/821618691/website/www.eharmony.com.br
Website Popularity: 4,230 visitors per day


For PlentyOfFish (POF)
http://myip.ms/info/whois/199.182.216.166/k/870064158/website/www.pof.com
Website Popularity: 860,000 visitors per day
+
http://myip.ms/info/whois/199.182.216.173/k/1297571589/website/www.plentyoffish.com
Website Popularity: 15,900 visitors per day

For OKCupid
http://myip.ms/info/whois/208.83.243.215/k/3219004676/website/www.okcupid.com
Website Popularity: 820,000 visitors per day
SAME RANGE AS PLENTYOFFISH ???

For Zoosk
http://myip.ms/info/whois/70.42.170.72/k/2475467363/website/www.zoosk.com
Website Popularity: 237,000 visitors per day

For Chemistry
http://myip.ms/info/whois/208.83.243.60/k/899006948/website/www.chemistry.com
Website Popularity: 22,100 visitors per day

Compare to the Argentinean site Taringa
http://myip.ms/info/whois/201.212.0.4/k/3486813657/website/www.taringa.net
Website Popularity: 1,490,000 visitors per day

A former employee of Affinitas GmbH. that says in a review they create fake profiles from inside?

Just seen this link
http://www.meinpraktikum.de/praktikum/affinitas
https://web.archive.org/web/20160308005927/http://www.meinpraktikum.de/praktikum/affinitas
saying
  Eine interessante Erfahrung in ein internationalen Kontext.  im Jahr 2009

Ich habe im International Business Development Frankreich gearbeitet. Das heisst, dass ich an die Entwicklung der französischen Webseite teilgenommen habe: durch die Übersetzung vom Test, Ergebnisse der Test, die Online-Kampagne (Google Adwords, Banners, usw.), fake Profilen, etc. Man braucht dafür - Gute Redaktionsfähigkeiten - Gute Kenntnisse der deutsche Sprache (um alle Kleinigkeiten und Nuancen verstehen zu können) - Gute Anpassungs- und Mitarbeitfähigkeiten

Was mir gut gefallen hat, ist, dass ich am Anfang ein interessantes Projekt teilgenommen habe. Im IBD Team waren wir drei Französinen, zwei Spaniern, und zwei Polen. Es gab eine tolle Stimmung im Team und man hatte das Gefühl an eine Erfahrung teilzunehmen.

translated as (using Google Translate)

An interesting experience in an international context. in 2009

I have worked in the International Business Development France. This means that I have participated in the development of the French website: the translation of the test, the test results, the online campaigns (Google Adwords, banner, etc.), fake profiles, etc. You need it - good editing skills - Good knowledge of the German language (to be able to understand all the little things and nuances) - Good adaptability and collaboration skills

What I liked is that I attended an interesting project at the beginning. In the IBD team we were three French defensins, two Spaniards and two poles. There was a great atmosphere in the team and you had the feeling to participate in an experience.

It seems it is about a former employee of Affinitas talking about they had to create fake profiles during 2009 for eDarling France version, to fill the initial database with fake profiles before launching, exactly what I had discovered last July 2013 at EliteSingles UK.
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During July 2013 I had begun to discover impressive patterns of anomalies consistent with fraudulent practices, when Affinitas GmbH. launched EliteSingles - the online dating site, copycat of eHarmony Inc. -  in the United Kingdom. I reported several times to Affinitas GmbH.'s Management Team and employees and guess I had received 2 legal letters from local lawyers accusing me of slander and defamation. Affinitas GmbH. and their local lawyers in Argentina, that may also be lawyers from Rocket Internet GmbH. want/wanted to force me to retract and sign a non disclosure/comment document on that issue because if Affinitas GmbH. is revealed in public as major fraud, ... Rocket Internet clone empire could be revealed by Journalists as big Ponzi schema of USD 3 Billion, involving over 250 Internet companies cloned by the Samwers ? Like Parmalat, Enron Corporation, Bernie Madoff, and other frauds!

Please see:
Partnerbörsen im Clinch (January 2012)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/partnerborsen-im-clinch-january-2012.html
I recommend a complete independent audit in Affinitas GmbH.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/i-recommend-complete-independent-audit.html
Some forums with comments saying fake profiles at eDarling Spain
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/some-forums-with-comments-saying-fake.html
Affinitas GmbH. (eDarling / EliteSingles / PrestigeSingles / EliteRencontre ) in a 5th year itch ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/affinitas-gmbh-edarling-elitesingles.html

Herbalife hit by US ‘pyramid scheme’ probe

Just read that article at Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cdde3864-aa0e-11e3-8bd6-00144feab7de.html#axzz2vmoJs4aV

A pyramid scheme is a business where the majority of profits within the system accrue from recruitment, rather than genuine sales of a product to consumers. Like a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme requires a steady stream of new recruits, almost of all of whom will lose money.

Another pyramid scheme requires a steady stream of new investors, who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose. Perhaps like WhatsApp
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/tech-space-that-is-out-of-control.html

or Samwer Brothers clone empire. Hope Journalists can investigate further.

AB Kinnevik paying the Samwer Brothers tech ventures fest?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/easytaxi-argentina-and-yepdoc-brazil.html

Samwer brothers pay too much to Managing Directors

and those Managing Directors are not entrepreneurs, they are smoke sellers, and although they can cook a barbecue under the water, they can not innovate in nothing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/technology/copycat-business-model-generates-genuine-global-success-for-start-up-incubator.html

"The Samwer brothers give M.B.A. graduates and former banking traders — often from companies like Goldman Sachs and McKinsey — as much as USD20 million in early-stage investment. "  "The pressure is intense on the start-up managers, who are usually paid a salary and do not receive a major stake in the company they operate."

How much do the Samwers pay for those Managing Directors ?
Too much, in the range of Euros 120,000 per year!
They sould pay Euros 12,000 per year + bonus/shares if they achieve success.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/more-juicy-information-from-affinitas.html

See other new fresh articles talking about Rocket Internet GmbH. new ventures:
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/holtzbrinck-und-samwers-dreamlines
(Now, a model from Latin America comes to Germany.
Brazil area 8,515,767 km2 or 3,287,597 sq mi
Germany area 357,168 km2 or 137,847 sq mi
Brazil is nearly 24 times bigger than Germany)
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/klickbus-rocket-internet
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2014/02/28/rocket-internet-startet-klickbus/

Please see by your own Rocket Internet Ventures in Brazil

ClickBus   http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/clickbus.com.br
Dafiti http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dafiti.com.br
CupoNation http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cuponation.com.br
Airu http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/airu.com.br
HelloFood http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hellofood.com.br  (called FoodPanda in other countries)
EasyTaxi http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/easytaxi.com operating also in several countries
Kanui http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kanui.com.br
Tricae  http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tricae.com.br
Mobly http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mobly.com.br
PayLeven http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/payleven.com.br
ZocPrint http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/zocprint.com.br
WestWing http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/westwing.com.br
Wimdu http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wimdu.com.br
21diamonds http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/21diamonds.com.br
BlueCircle http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bluecircle.com.br
GlossyBox, closed last year.  http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/glossybox.com.br
YepDoc ( closed? ) http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yepdoc.com.br
DropGifts ( closed? ) http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dropgifts.com.br

My bet:
Their start-up companies are not designed to be profitable, and as they are copycats of U.S. companies, the main purpose is to be sold to the original company they had copycatted.
They always make unrealistic projections of sales: "For the Brazilian Amazon clone Linio the Samwers offer a return of 12 percent in 2017. The Amazon model generates 1.1 percent."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/secret-papers-how-samwer-bros-woo.html
I suspect no one of the cloned companies by Samwer Bros. are really profitable or sustainable for the next 5 years, to until 2019 at least; and as they will not be able to sell to the original company they had copycatted, as they failed to sell Affinitas GmbH. to eHarmony Inc. last March 2012 and as the Management Team can not innovate in nothing because they are not entrepreneurs, they will collapse. All cloned companies seem like bubbles.

Dafiti Latam GmbH. balance 2011

Dafiti Latam GmbH. (parent company is Commercio Digital BF Ltda.) operates as a holding company of online retailers for shoes, apparel and further fashion and lifestyle products which are represented in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Mexico. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dafiti.com.br
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dafiti.com.co
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dafiti.com.ar
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dafiti.cl
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dafiti.com.mx
My bet: In Latam countries, people will research online and then buy offline.

Here the link to the balance in pdf:
 http://es.scribd.com/doc/209528577/DafitiLATAMGmbH2011bilanz-pdf

You can also type
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet
and then search for Dafiti to see by your own!


Please remember:
AB Kinnevik's holdings is main investor and main partner of Rocket Internet GmbH.
They had invested in Rocket Internet GmbH.
and
They had acquired shares from several Rocket Internet GmbH.'s companies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/about-kinneviks-holdings.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/zalando-2012-balance.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/secret-papers-how-samwer-bros-woo.html

ICO UK says: "read online dating terms and conditions"

The message comes after a push from the regulator to ensure that the websites used by millions of people are following the Data Protection Act.
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2013/07/ico-writes-to-online-dating-companies/
Simon Entwisle, ICO Director of Operations, said: "Clearly dating websites are going to need to take a lot of personal information from their customers. But it's crucial they let those customers know how their information is going to be used. ...........
..........
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The ICO will continue to work with the sector, including the newly-formed Online Dating Association trade body, to ensure continued compliance by the sector."

Rocket Internet GmbH. gets into cleaning services ???

"Rocket Internet is hard at work on its next venture – a copy of US-based Homejoy. The platform lets users book household services, such as cleaners. According to Deutsche Startups 25 people have apparently already been hired for the Rocket company, which should launch in spring this year. A Rocket Internet representative told VentureVillage’s sister magazine Gründerszene that the new venture will be run by two experienced entrepreneurs."

http://venturevillage.eu/rocket-internet-new-venture
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/samwer-rocket-internet-putzkraftvermittlun
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2014/01/18/oliver-samwer-delivery-hero-10-neue-start-und-mehr/
http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2014/02/21/rocket-internet-putzfrau-homejoy/

Perhaps it will happen what last year happened with Fab and Fab's clone (Bamarang)
They enter in a race and in the long term, they annihilate between themselves, as a LOST - LOST schema, both competitors destroyed to each other.

http://pando.com/2013/11/26/the-samwer-brothers-may-have-the-last-laugh-on-fab-after-all/
http://venturevillage.eu/bamarang-closing-shop-samwer-brothers-drop-fab-clone-in-favour-of-westwing
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-09/fabs-victory-over-german-clone-kings-the-samwer-brothers-came-at-a-cost
Ms. Caroline Winter from Bloomberg Businessweek seems to be the Journalist who most investigated over the Samwer Brothers and their clone empire.

Please remember:
AB Kinnevik's holdings is main investor and main partner of Rocket Internet GmbH.
They had invested in Rocket Internet GmbH.
and
They had acquired shares from several Rocket Internet GmbH.'s companies
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/about-kinneviks-holdings.html
"Rocket Internet is a company that incubates and develops e-commerce and other consumer-oriented online companies. Kinnevik owned 23.9% of the parent company Rocket Internet GmbH as per 31 December 2013 and works closely with the management of Rocket Internet in order to foster companies and develop them into leading Internet players."
"The Kinnevik online investments are mainly focused around e-commerce and market places. E-commerce is one of the strongest global growth trends in the world economy, and it is based on a shift in consumer behaviour which we believe is not a short term trend but represents a permanent change in consumer behaviour.
Within e-commerce, Kinnevik has focused its investments in the shoes and fashion segment through companies such as Zalando with geographical presence in Europe and companies such as Lamoda, Dafiti, Jabong and Zalora focused on emerging markets."



My bet:
Their start-up companies are not designed to be profitable, and as they are copycats of U.S. companies, the main purpose is to be sold to the original company they had copycatted.
They always make unrealistic projections of sales: "For the Brazilian Amazon clone Linio the Samwers offer a return of 12 percent in 2017. The Amazon model generates 1.1 percent."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/secret-papers-how-samwer-bros-woo.html
I suspect no one of the cloned companies by Samwer Bros. are really profitable or sustainable for the next 5 years, to until 2019 at least; and as they will not be able to sell to the original company they had copycatted, as they failed to sell Affinitas GmbH. to eHarmony Inc. last March 2012 and as the Management Team can not innovate in nothing because they are not entrepreneurs, they will collapse. All cloned companies seem like bubbles.

Six persons charged over alleged Match (UK) dating fraud

The UK seems to be the most advanced country paying attention to the performance of several online dating sites. The UK seems to be the only country investigating fraudulent practices from the Online Dating Industry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-26286519
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/six-charged-over-dating-site-scam-1
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/matchcom-scam-six-charged-over-3169686


Plese remember also:
- BBC investigation over Cupid PLC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23409947
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21366326
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23425366

-  Channel 4 on Globals Personals (Whitelabel dating)
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2012/11/uk-global-personals-allegedly-uses-fake-profiles.html
http://www.channel4.com/news/fools-for-love-how-one-internet-dating-firm-dupes-clients

also Ashley Madison
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/11/10/ashley_madison_infidelity_site_sued_by_woman_hired_to_write_up_fake_female_profiles.html

and

Match in USA
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/photos-posted-match-led-suicide-model-article-1.1527230

Certificates from Spanish Telematics Crimes Group

Here are 11 certificates from  Spanish Telematics Crimes Group.
The "Grupo de Delitos Telemáticos" (GDT) / Telematics Crimes Group (a division of the Unidad Central Operativa de la Guardia Civil) was set up to investigate all those crimes committed over the Internet. Its origin dates back to 1996.

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249422/Certificado-Id178175-Cl329487-InboxMail362717-CopyFrom-20140201-405-13924-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249420/Certificado-Id178174-Cl329487-InboxMail362716-CopyFrom-20140201-405-13922-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249419/Certificado-Id182139-Cl329487-InboxMail370538-CopyFrom-20140201-405-19186-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249417/Certificado-Id178176-Cl329487-InboxMail362718-CopyFrom-20140201-405-13925-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249415/Certificado-Id182138-Cl329487-InboxMail370537-CopyFrom-20140201-405-19185-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249414/Certificado-Id182137-Cl329487-InboxMail370536-CopyFrom-20140201-405-19184-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249413/Certificado-Id178177-Cl329487-InboxMail362719-CopyFrom-20140201-405-13926-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249412/Certificado-Id171698-Cl329487-InboxMail349989-CopyFrom-20140201-405-5738-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249411/Certificado-Id171699-Cl329487-InboxMail349991-CopyFrom-20140201-405-5739-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249410/Certificado-Id171700-Cl329487-InboxMail349992-CopyFrom-20140201-405-5740-DocOK-pdf

http://es.scribd.com/doc/208249408/Certificado-Id182140-Cl329487-InboxMail370539-CopyFrom-20140201-405-19187-DocOK-pdf


Last January I had to call local police (Argentinean Federal Police, Cybercrimes division) to denounce / suggest them to investigate Affinitas GmbH. and their local lawyers in a possible illegal association / illicit association and
suggest them to investigate Rocket Internet Argentina and local (PHANTOM ?)  internet companies like HelloFood, Wimdu, EasyTaxi, Dafiti in a possible illegal association / illicit association for a Ponzi schema.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/about-kinneviks-holdings.html

BIG LOSSES from Rocket Internet clone empire

LOSSES in Euros / Ergebnis (negative results)

Zalando GmbH    -56.515.598,78

Wimdu GmbH    -15.068.337,74

Affinitas GmbH    -9.223.493,95
Home 24 GmbH   -9.525.828,45
Billpay GmbH     -8.092.290,19
fashion4home GmbH     -1.247.500,78
Toptarif Internet GmbH     -1.827.066,30
fashion4home GmbH    -1.247.500,78
Netzoptiker GmbH    -809.428,33
Pinspire GmbH     -452.110,71


Please see from
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet
search for rocket internet and then open the file
Rocket Internet GmbH
Berlin           Rechnungslegung/
Finanzberichte     »Jahresabschluss zum Geschäftsjahr vom 01.01.2011 bis zum 31.12.2011
Ergänzung der Veröffentlichung vom 28.08.2013     08.10.2013


See if this link opens the balance sheet directly in your computer / mobile device:
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet?session.sessionid=1aa65166f73fbc66a5e7585eb2353c4e&page.navid=detailsearchlisttodetailsearchdetail&fts_search_list.selected=08274ea8f2e69c75&fts_search_list.destHistoryId=35554


Please read also:
Secret papers: How the Samwer bros. woo investors.  "For the Brazilian Amazon clone Linio the Samwers offer a return of 12 percent in 2017. The model Amazon generates 1.1 percent."

Für Oliver Samwer schmissen die Edarling-Gründer ihre gutbezahlten Jobs "With eDarling growing rapidly, it gradually became a serious competition for the long-established players such as ElitePartner or eHarmony. In January 2010, the U.S. based company eHarmony Inc. secured a 30% of Affinitas GmbH. The plan: "We were clearly focused on an exit to eHarmony", said Khalil.
But that did not happen. In May, 2013, exactly four years after the launchment, Affinitas GmbH. bought itself back for an estimated amount of USD30 million"
PUBLIC balance Affinitas GmbH. fiscal year 2012 and others

PUBLIC balance Affinitas GmbH. fiscal year 2012 and others

PUBLIC balance Affinitas GmbH. fiscal year 2012

Up to 31 Dec 2012, -5.851.971 Euros (Net loss = Jahresfehlbetrag)
signed
Oliver Samwer from Rocket Internet GmbH.
and
Armen Avedissian & Greg Steiner from eHarmony Inc.
Up to 31 Dec 2011, -9.223.494 Euros (Net loss)
Up to 31 Dec 2010, -13.607.040,22 Euros (Net loss)
Up to 31 Dec 2009, -6.347.373,25 Euros (Net loss)
Up to 31 Dec 2008, -82.399,41      Euros (Net loss)

They had been operating at a loss since 2008, since they were established!

obtained from this link
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet

then search (Suchen) Affinitas.

It is out of control.

It has impressive patterns of anomalies!

Please read also:

Just received new legal letter from Affinitas GmbH. via local lawyers!

A 210cm height Astronaut at EliteSingles UK

Some forums with comments saying fake profiles at eDarling Spain

Four of them are from Tehran, Iran

EliteSingles Uk, tallest men in the world

Some articles about Rocket Internet GmbH. and Affinitas GmbH.

Serious patterns of anomalies at a 6 months old site