WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam
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Re: WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam
#2The Complete Idiot's Guide To Frauds, Scams, and Cons
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0028644158/thepolitic...
Re: WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam
#3TC / Crunchbase might want to change their WooMe's company profile on their pages as well, in light of this article.
Kind of funny that the article calls it "bait-and-switch, from the horrible kind" while linking to an internal-ish overview that says "best of all it’s free".
Re: WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam
#4Hey don't knock the horse face. I did fine at Burning Man wearing a Horse Head mask. Maybe there are a lot of playa princesses on WooMe.
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#5That's like the oldest scam that pretty much every single dating site uses. I'm surprised how TC is shocked...shocked to find that on a dating site.
Reddit did the same thing starting out...the only difference is that they didn't try to trick you into paying.
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#6Wow. That is a horrible. Can't believe any VC would invest money in such a misleading, annoying startup.
Are these messages coming from WooMe internally or are they SPAM submitted from "Russian bride scams"? Either way, I'm staying away and warning others!
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#7I'm not sure what the law is in the US, but I'm pretty sure that would be illegal in the UK both under sales legislation and under anti-fraud laws.
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#8where is the analogous website for scamming women with pics of hot boys? "pay 50% OFF to chat with Ivan!"
what a chauvinism!..
Re: WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam
#9That's like the oldest scam that pretty much every single dating site uses. I'm surprised how TC is shocked...shocked to find that on a dating site. Reddit did the same thing starting out...the only difference is that they didn't try to trick you into paying.
There's a bit of a difference between the company owners starting conversations between themselves to create content interesting enough to attract outsiders and robots (indirectly) asking you to pay so you can reply to their messages.
The most underhand variation of all I've encountered was sms.ac (ironic acroynm) which suckered you in with Bebo-style friendspam to join their "free SMS" network, at which point your blank profile started receiving unsolicited reverse charge "flirts" from random non-humans.
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#10for the record, robin wauters didn't approach us to verify anything in the story and the accusations are untrue and misleading.
we focus very hard on getting people to talk to each other and interact and we have a number of features on the site, driven by users, that make that happen.
Ironically, the user featured in the pic is one of the longest standing and most active on WooMe.