Massive influx of fake accounts

[ey****]

5 hours ago, HatfieldMaster said:

I'm referring to the age based filters that are automatically added to female accounts that prevent messages from anyone 10+ years different from them. I cant even message a 40yo. Its pathetic.

Oh, that one.

Yeah - I think that makes sense.  No it's a good default while someone is finding their feet.  Like if someone is happy for younger/older men they can flip it in their settings.  Them not flipping it helps again limit the chancers. 

[Ha****]

3 hours ago, eyemblacksheep said:

Oh, that one.

Yeah - I think that makes sense.  No it's a good default while someone is finding their feet.  Like if someone is happy for younger/older men they can flip it in their settings.  Them not flipping it helps again limit the chancers. 

Oh, you're using the "they can flip it in the settings" line are you.... The very justification the Mods gave me for this change was that nobody makes use of the message filters! So if no-one is going to switch them on, what makes you think that they'll switch them off? And even if they did, how are we supposed to find out - by clicking on the same profile day after day on the off chance that the user has updated them? 

Why is it that I see profiles where the user has placed a kinky ad that includes me within their age range, I am local to them, and yet I still get the "this user is using filters" message etc? And no, its not because they have received lots of messages etc either.

This was poorly thought out, poorly executed and poorly communicated (even to their own customer service agents and moderators, some of whom are still unaware of the changes).

If the goal is to reduce the overall volume of messages that women receive then by far the fairest and most reasonable approach would be to limit the amount of 1st messages that men can send per day, to 2 or 3. That would immediately stop the "f*ckboy" scaiter gun approach of messaging every women that joins the site and make men stop and think and only message those few profiles that most clearly matched what they were looking for, and what the woman was looking for in a partner. Or is that too much of a common-sense approach?

 

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1 hour ago, HatfieldMaster said:

This was poorly thought out, poorly executed and poorly communicated (even to their own customer service agents and moderators, some of whom are still unaware of the changes).

you know

I can see where you're coming from - perhaps of course when people do sign up there should be a proper screen by screen wizard for settings - and a lot kinda about using the site gets explored through treasure hunt etc

though

I'm not sure what any of this has to do with a fake accounts, and that several months ago there was a spike of them

[Ha****]

2 hours ago, eyemblacksheep said:

you know

I can see where you're coming from - perhaps of course when people do sign up there should be a proper screen by screen wizard for settings - and a lot kinda about using the site gets explored through treasure hunt etc

though

I'm not sure what any of this has to do with a fake accounts, and that several months ago there was a spike of them

"I'm not sure what any of this has to do with a fake accounts, and that several months ago there was a spike of them"...

Where else can I discuss this issue? FetMods keep shutting down any topic created about this.

[Ha****]

3 hours ago, eyemblacksheep said:

you know

I can see where you're coming from - perhaps of course when people do sign up there should be a proper screen by screen wizard for settings - and a lot kinda about using the site gets explored through treasure hunt etc

though

I'm not sure what any of this has to do with a fake accounts, and that several months ago there was a spike of them

Oh, and I've just had yet another member of customer service deny the site is even applying message filters on new female accounts. 3 months after the fact. Unbelievable.

"Also, there aren’t automatic age-based filters applied to “new female accounts.” Message filters are set by each kinkster."
 

[Ch****]

It’s seems like only actual people (or seem to be by all accounts) are getting blocked for verification

[FE****]

13 minutes ago, Char2D2 said:

It’s seems like only actual people (or seem to be by all accounts) are getting blocked for verification

Do you have any evidence to support this?  The site tries hard to remove the fake accounts and fairly rule on accusations made by others but it won't always get it right all the time.  

[Yi****]

Free dating websites don't give you lots of free features. Yeah I'm confused a little that I can't message so and so, but i'm not paying any ***, either for that. If you've been on dating sites as long as I have, they're all kind of similar in this regards.And unless you're a real winner, most gals get too many messages to respond to average or below average.Looking guys, I get lots of hot busty young, slim new profiles.Sending me messages, and that's an automatic red flag.But don't even waste my time responding.I mean, that's how internet profiles work on dating sites get used to it

[Milesh]

Now I am seeing tons of accounts that are miss representing there age, account says 60 yrs old yet the person in the profile pic is clearly much much younger, betting the bots that are using these accounts are not changing the profile info to match the new profile pic like a user would .

[Milesh]

Also worth noting seeing spoofed locations too one day they are listed as in your general area the next they are 5k miles away

[FE****]

1 hour ago, Milesh said:

Now I am seeing tons of accounts that are miss representing there age, account says 60 yrs old yet the person in the profile pic is clearly much much younger, betting the bots that are using these accounts are not changing the profile info to match the new profile pic like a user would .

Sometimes people don't put their real age to avoid people who aren't considering them as a person.  They know men will search mostly for younger profiles, this removes themself from those searches.  In reverse, this would be the opposite a scammer would do if they wanted more 'marks'.

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1 hour ago, Milesh said:

Also worth noting seeing spoofed locations too one day they are listed as in your general area the next they are 5k miles away

Whilst this is a good indication of a potential red flag it's no more than a potential.  One aspect of the site allows a dynamic location, so people can search for people close by.  They MAY have flown somewhere else, so treat with caution.

[Odd-1086]

This site is run by women who have no respect for men. They believe that if they flood your account with inappropriately aged women who don't fit into the filter that you put up you will think that is fine, or they will send hundreds of profiles from the other side of the world and you should be ok with that.

Filters on this app is a waist of time. Admin doesn't care!!!

[FE****]

8 minutes ago, Odd-1086 said:

This site is run by women who have no respect for men. They believe that if they flood your account with inappropriately aged women who don't fit into the filter that you put up you will think that is fine, or they will send hundreds of profiles from the other side of the world and you should be ok with that.

Filters on this app is a waist of time. Admin doesn't care!!!

I can tell you,  the site isn't run by women (although there are plenty of women on the staff).

Admin very much cares and responds to profiles being reported.  It's why most of the scammer profiles last no more than a day or two.

As for your comment, "flood your account with inappropriately aged women who don't fit into the filter that you put up you will think that is fine, or they will send hundreds of profiles from the other side of the world and you should be ok with that."  You'd need to be more specific about where these are showing as there are multiple filters and multiple reasons why profiles would appear in different locations on the site.  Please PM me the details as this is off-topic for this thread.

 

[Odd-1086]

I can't send screen shots on this discussion page, but inappropriate or outside of my filter profile may as well be scammers.on my likes page I have 90% inappropriate people liking my page and very few people who suit my filters. That doesn't necessarily mean there scammers, but why have z filter if they don't work. I'm having to sift through a whole lot of people who don't meet my profile, so they are either scammers or people who don't read my profile before liking. Just like fake profiles of this discussion, they are a waist of my time and energy which is why we are having this discussion. I spending my time sifting through people that are either 10s or thousands of klms away from here, vanilla (because that's why I'm on a fetish site), or are blocked because they refuse to verify themselves (mostly vanilla people, but also people who.i have liked and suit my needs.) 4 years I've been on this site and not had z single date from it.

[Rh****]

On 4/7/2025 at 2:35 PM, FETMod-RG said:

Please report them using the tools on the site.  The help from users assists our support department in getting to them as quickly as possible.

Yeah, I report them all the time only to have them still on the site. I get your " thanks for helping make this a safer place" but nothing really is done about it. 

[So****]

What I have seen - and have reported to Support multiple times - is that Fet either bans/deletes a user or insists on verification, BUT their profiles STILL APPEAR in searches, listings of likes/spanks, etc. Why can't Fet prevent those profiles from appearing at all if they are no longer able to be contacted? It ***es me off.

[Milesh]

"Whilst this is a good indication of a potential red flag it's no more than a potential. One aspect of the site allows a dynamic location, so people can search for people close by. They MAY have flown somewhere else, so treat with caution." Confirmed scammer as it has stolen pics from a verified Instagram for someone in arizona not Florida and certainly not 5k miles away reported the account and blocked. Just another tactic by scammers freely using this site to fish.

[Odd-1086]

While I understand that these fake accounts are potentially red flags, if I can't contact them because admin has blocked them, then they shouldn't be there. Also shouldn't the closest be at the top of list for each persons feed instead of frustrating their members with a 1000 inappropriate profiles frustrating any real search because someone has paid to be on top. This is why capitalism doesn't work on its own and Socialism like a TPE works for those who aren't focused solely on ***.
Their should be a platforms dedicated to each region first, then highlighting people for people in that region. Not just *** oriented Americans and the only fans models they are themselves scamming with their policies.

[Oz****]

It has never been as bad as it is now. Surprised you posted this 7 months ago, as I remember it was very different then. Sure, you'd have fake profiles now and then. But recently, it seems there is like 5-10 fake accounts/bots for every 1 real girl and it seems like nothing is being done to stop it. Sad, used to really enjoy this app.

[Dp****]

On 10/30/2025 at 5:22 AM, HatfieldMaster said:

Oh, and I've just had yet another member of customer service deny the site is even applying message filters on new female accounts. 3 months after the fact. Unbelievable.

"Also, there aren’t automatic age-based filters applied to “new female accounts.” Message filters are set by each kinkster."
 

This is true - there are new ladies on here I can message. However yes, a lot of the ladies have filters, because being inundated with messages from people they're not interested in is frustrating  

Scammers (ie the topic of this post) won't have filters!

[Dp****]

I've reported 2 obvious scammers so far, and admin is NOT removing them. Interestingly they show up as paid accounts... but are scammers nonetheless. Moving chat to t'gram, not speaking english properly despite being local, etc

It makes me not want to use Fet

[FE****]

12 hours ago, Dportrait said:

I've reported 2 obvious scammers so far, and admin is NOT removing them. Interestingly they show up as paid accounts... but are scammers nonetheless. Moving chat to t'gram, not speaking english properly despite being local, etc

It makes me not want to use Fet

How long ago did you report them?  PM me their user names and I will escalate.

[Dp****]

10 hours ago, FETMod-RG said:

How long ago did you report them?  PM me their user names and I will escalate.

A couple of days. Have been PMing admin about verification as that is broken. Mentioned the scammers and yet they’re still active. The “thanks for helping” message isn’t helpful as no action is taken

[FE****]

2 hours ago, Dportrait said:

A couple of days. Have been PMing admin about verification as that is broken. Mentioned the scammers and yet they’re still active. The “thanks for helping” message isn’t helpful as no action is taken

The examples you gave to me in PM are certainly not obvious scammers, so I can see why they haven't been removed already.  The site also needs to protect against false accusations, so there needs to be solid evidence.