In November 2020, I registered and paid the monthly fee for Best-Matchmaking's online dating plattform and I quickly found a woman, to meet in the Ukraine for a weekend before Christmas 2020.
The meeting with the woman already arranged, Best-Matchmaking interfered and delayed our meeting by scaring and lying to the woman as well as asking me for a ransom of more than 1000 Euro before we could meet.
When I later met the woman, I turned out that there are many layers of fraud involved in Best-Matchmaking's business model.
One trick is the interpreter provided by the Best-Matchmaking or their local partner. This interpreter acts as a "showmaster". As long as the client does not speak the local language, the client entirely depends on her. Therefore she can tell him whatever she likes. At least as long as the client does not himself organise an independent interpter.
By Google searching for my name "Felix Berlin" together with "Best-Matchmaking", you can find my blog and also a website I have created to collected information about Best-Matchmaking's frauds and flaws.
I have written down all the details of the incident in on my blog "yopa live" (https://yopa.live/best-matchmaking/best-matchmaking-en/) and on my website best-matchmaking.INFO which I set up to share my and other client's experiences with Best-Matchmaking.
Desired outcome: protect other potential clients from this honey trap