Cupid Media Pty Ltd review: Thieves stealing personal information. Stay away. ( 1 comment)

Cupid Media Pty is the parent company of many scam "dating" sites filled with fake profiles created by the company itself, with shady ToS and practices.

Late one night I created an account on one of their sites, filled my profile with the basic questionnaire they were asking (age, weight, height, education, etc), upload a picture showing only my head/face, verified my email, and just logged off and went to bed. That's it; I didn't do anything else. The next morning I kept getting email notifications (5-10 total) from their website of supposedly "users" who had "sent" me "messages" (sure...). Fast forward another 12 hours. I tried to log back in for the first time since the time I had created my account. To my dismay, I was greeted with the message: "Account suspended".

...wait what?! Suspended?

The "account suspended" window was demanding a picture of drivers license or passport(!) to verify that I am not a fake account.

Fine. I bit my tongue and just uploaded a picture of my drivers license after redacting sensitive information to show that, yes, I'm real and that is my account and yes, that is my picture, and yes I do live in the stated city. The window displayed a message saying that they'll "review" and get back to me within 48 hours. 48 hours... just to look at a picture. I waited 48 hours during the work week. Nothing happened. I tried to log back in after 48 hours and was greeted with "account permanently terminated".

They are thieves and crooks using a site to steal users' personal information.