WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – And One Huge Scam

Do you purposefully allow spammers (affiliates maybe?) to generate large numbers of fake messages that result in conversions from your fake free, to paid accounts?

Yes you do.

I have less than zero respect for you, and for everything you do.

> If you really WANT snake oil I guess I could find some and get it to you.

You certainly have enough of it in stock.

Let's get real: you're either generating, or allowing spams because they result in upsells. You have no financial incentive to stop the problem, and you lack the ethics to do it because it's right.

Not to mention that your investors would wonder why the cash spigot dried up, once you converted your site from an unethical cesspool of deception to a legitimate, value-adding business.

You're everything that's wrong with business in a neat little bun. Here's to hoping that someday you stop scamming people, and start creating value.

I got about 5 messages the first 2-3 minutes after signing up. A short while later, I had roughly 20 random women contacting me. Good thing I have screenshots, because they stopped coming as soon as WooMe noticed my post.

I can only see what these supposedly real women are trying to tell or ask me until I pay up. That's all fine and dandy, but there's no point in pretending that real users were just all jumping on the opportunity to meet a horse in such a short time period.

How is this an article so thoroughly under-researched? Why not go a little bit further and investigate if actual people are posting?

Hi $name, thank you for messaging me. I'm new to this site, so can you please tell me the process on how you send me that message, where did you have to click, etc? I am still trying to figure this out, so if you could tell me what buttons you had to press to send the message to me, I'd appreciate it, it would help me get started. Thank you ahead of time, $name. P.S. Have you read any good books lately?

And then, to be even more sure, create a couple more accounts through proxies and see what kind of messages they get. Do deactivate them after.

See, while it does look like some sort of bait-and-switch, at least try to verify it. Maybe at the very least they've got a very persuasive feature where new members do get popped up, and there's a user initiated "Poke" like feature (that appears as a message on your end), so that would put them somewhere in grey-hat tactics out of the black-hat area.

The value reddit users get is from viewing new and interesting content and comments.

The value a user of a dating site gets is the PROSPECT of going on a face to face meeting with another person.

If reddit engineers were good enough to make an AI to post great new great content everyday along with insightful comments and analysis, I'd still go. Hell, that might make me want to go even more often.

If I found out a dating site users were doing the same with messaging, that completely precludes me from getting the value I really want from the site, thus its useless.