TripTogether.com review: scam? 114

I agree 100% with my simpetiser on daiting scam, I was also invalved in 1 of this daiting scam from GHANA

Many of the Asian women can be found on Asiandate.com and the Ukrainian/Russian ones on Asiandate's sister site Anastasia.com and the South American ones on another sister site AmoLatina.com. All three of these sites use the same business model as trip together, although it appears to be slightly cheaper and you have easier access than on the dating sites. The three dating sites have the reputation of using professional chatters to scam men into chatting at about $1/minute and reading letters at about $7/letter. Since the emails informing you of the letters give the first couple of sentences I ran a test. I set up five accounts and found that about 30 to 40 percent of the letters, though appearing highly specific were sent to all five accounts with only the names of the recipient changed to match the account holder. I'm guessing that many who operate as professional chatters on the dating sights serve a similar purpose on Trip Together. On at least one occasion on AsianDate a chatter admitted to me that she was just chatting 'professionally' . Reviewers have reported that online romances frequently fall apart when the make plans for an actual meeting. Others claim that at least some of the chats are computer/cast with the profiles not being the people doing the actual chatting. I recommend buyer beware.

Dear Prof48

We are sorry to hear you had any inconveniences with AsianDate service. Have you tried reporting your problems to the Agency? If you feel you have been a victim of a scam please read our anti scam policy which you can find here: http://www.asiandate.com/asiandate-anti-scam-policy.html. Please call us +[protected] or email us
info@asiandate.com.

It is impossible for us to anticipate and prevent all instances of inappropriate behavior or fraudulent correspondence. The only thing major agencies can do is react to it, and react in such a way that it sets an example for everyone else involved in the network.
The satisfaction of our customers is our No1 priority, and we will appreciate your input.

Sincerely,
AsianDate.com Customer Service

I have not been a victim in that I tested for scam activity based on the reputation of these sites. That test is ongoing and thus far hundreds of profiles allegedly have written to me. I am an expert in Chinese culture. The correspondence do not use thought patterns typical of Asian culture. They write the exact same letters to each of the multiple profiles I have created. Many of those letters reference earlier "correspondence" I did not write or "chats" that I never had. I think there is reasonable evidence to suggest that they were not written by the people identified in the profiles. I can document that many of the pictures erotic in nature sent in letters can be found on porn sites. I am now seeking to make contact with some of the profiles that I have identified outside of these sites to confirm that they did not write the letters. Again, in order to be a victim, I must have bought in to the scam, so I was not a victim. As a reviewer of dating sites, I am happy to provide my information to those who are seriously seeking international partners. Often they benefit from objective analysis where sites use business models that focus on obtaining funds from lonely men. I note advertising on selected porn sites suggesting Asian Women willing to sleep with you in exchange for living space where, when one clicks on the site, one is taken to your website. Hardly sounds like a site one would use to find a loving wife. If the ads are true one might do just as well seeking a loving wife down on West 42nd street in New York City as using your site.

I don't have problems, I am reporting what I believe to be your agency practice as a review of the site. I would only have probems if I had been damaged by your site. Based on the reputation of AsianDate I did an objective study posting five different IDs, all of which are still active. I have read your anti scam policy and found that you do not practice it. Indeed your business model, in the name of "proteccting the Asian women from men, does just the opposite. Advertising on Porn sites that click through to Asian Date infer that the women there may be in the US illegally and are willing to sleep with men in exchange for living space. In my free time I am seeking to contact members of AsianDate that I have identified off site to see whether or not they wrote the letters sent from their "profiles". I have confirmed at least one chat contact chats on AsianDate commercially and has no intent for romance. I believe these practices on AsianDate practice. Why else would a woman send over thirty identical letters to more than one profile without getting a single response but include in those letters that she "misses our chats" or is upset "that you have not written to me in a long time" when in fact I never wrote to her. Others make reference to correspondence from one or more of my profiles suggesting to me, anyway, that the writers are writing prefab letters. I estimate that at least one third of the correspondence sent to me is fake. It is 1)generic in nature and 2) designed to elicit either an erotic or and emotional response more in tune with getting a reply that costs 10 credits, than in proving information about the profile that is corresponding. When so much correspondence can be documented as artificial (same identical letters written to multiple profiles), one readily should assume that the agency is compicit. They, after all, are allegedly translating the correspondence. I have downloaded all correspondence to me and note that many phrases turn up repeatedly, more so than one would expect from multiple authors. Again, it is my belief that the agency is complicit in this and since they are charging male members 10 credits to read or to write a letter, at a minimum of $0.0399/credit, they are doing quite well.. (In January they began sending the first few phrases of each letter with the notice of a new letter, after complaints surfaced that men were receiving multiple identical letters) Lets assume generously that only 10 percent of the wome are fake--a very generous assumption--why would a man want to spend $4/letter or 40 cents/per minute chatting when the more aggressive a woman showed interest in him, the greater likelihood was she was a fake. Were I willing to spend the money to document it, I believe I could document at least 1/3 (I believe much higher) were fakes and that Asiandate is complicit by their business model in encouraging that. The business model itself is not designed to enable men to find a wife. Rather its focus is on getting men to pay to chat or correspond with beautiful "women." They even charge extra for you to cam chat so you can be assured that you are in fact chatting with the woman you think you are chatting with. If one has resources, one can document from writing style whether or not letters are written by the same person, In my research thus far, I suspect that many letters have no Chinese language source and were not written by the person in the profile. They do not reflect Chinese culture or thought patterns with which I am familiar having interacted with Chinese culture since 1985. I think men seeking an international spouse should be enabled to do so. While Asian date may be able to site marriages coming from the use of their site, I am convinced that most men would do better to invest elsewhere in finding an Asian partner. I estimate that on any dating site it should take close to 100 letters to determine a match and that at best it will take 10 correspondents with an average of 10 letters to arrive at a match. Given those estimates AsianDate is costly and is not likely to deliver even if there were no scam. But practices widely documented in reviews on the net show it highly likely that AsianDate and its sister sites are complicit in generally not providing serious correspondents. Rather they provide correspondents whose letters are designed to entice expensive chats and letter writing that will not likely lead to romance. My own research objectively documents this statistically. I am now seeking to connect off site with women who have profiles to confirm that the letters written to my profiles, that do not sound Chinese in origin, are in fact fake.

Trip together is a site where you can come in contact with persons for traveling with each other. If there is someone who have really math someone on skype ore facebook just speak the truth but I think people who are saying that here belongs to the site and are also lying. Its a site where people only talking for earning money from the credits you buy. Just ask for personal contact. You become blocked in a while so you must buy credits for talking back. Never get an email or skype or facebook account back from them only emails with Africa stuff. Don`t waste your time here its full of ###.

Greetz rene from the netherlands

Dear LoneWolf33,
Dear Juan222,
Please accept our deepest apologies for this delay and all inconveniences caused to you!
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Sincerely,
Triptogether Customer Service Department.

Dear Juan222

Please accept our deepest apologies for this delay and all inconveniences caused to you!
Kindly be informed, that our company leads the fight for scam protection.
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Sincerely,
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i lost a girls no the name ismjessica 1111@yahoo.com and the is looking and i cant get in touch she is from u s a andi want to phone the girl my no is [protected] i would be glad if you could help me thanks

i have no complaint i have mist a girls no her name mjessica1111@yahoo.com if you could give me her phone no please my no is ireland [protected]

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We are grateful for your request.
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i want a relationship
i mean females

Dear adu yaw mark,

Thank you for your comment.
If you would like to build relationship on triptogether.com, you should first register on our website.
You can do that with your Facebook profile or with your Email.
Our service is one of the easiest way to find your soulmate.
If you have any other questions feel free to contact us by email: support@triptogether.com or here is our customer support number [protected]. We are here for you Mon-Fri 8am-5pm CET.

Best regards,
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I know that there are a lot of scammers with romantic and sad stories. But also had a real one from Ukraine: "Honey, I'm looking for a husband. I want children..." :-) And of conversation :-)
I only correspond with woman who send me their mail.
Tip to check if person is fake!:
1- Click with right mouse button on picture
1- Copy to properties
1- Go to google-images and past the URL.
If you find same pictures on much more pages/dating sites, think twice.
One way or the other, al chinese woman you always find only 1 picture. I think that google-image dont work in China. I guess.
2- You can google their email. Also - "@...com" and + "city"
3- Ask specific questions. I asked about chrtistianity. Found out that answers she gave, she literally googled on the internet.
4- Copy and past great part of (romantic) text. I found out that most of this texts/poems, were completely copied from sites like:
Howtodate, poems and more...!
So be very careful!

Pictures are examples belonging to my text above.
I found out that a lot of pictures on profiles are from porn/models/actrices from all over the world...!

Examples how to check if picture on profile is fake person. Belongs to my text above/below.
I found out that most of the pictures on the profiles are from porn/models/actrices all over the world...!

Dear KJ777,

Thank you for your comment.
Our site is a social network and its members are searching for travel partners all over the world.
Also please be informed, that our company leads the fight for scam protection.
If you feel you have been scammed by any member, please feel free to contact us at
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If you have any other questions or misunderstanding feel free to contact Customer Service Team +[protected].
We work MON-FR I(8am-5pm CET)

Sincerely,
Triptogether Customer Service Department.

I agree that this trip together is indeed a scam. I register with this site, upload my photo, activate the link in my email sent by trip together.com and within a span of five minutes, I got numerous ' Hi, I like to travel from you ' or ' Hi Dear ' messages, mostly from the beautiful china ladies photos that I have just viewed. Some how these ' beautiful china girls ' photos automatically knew that I have viewed them, very strange indeed !. What is even more strange is suddenly another ' beautiful china girl ' photo popped up and says that I should have ' many beautiful ladies from china chatting with me by now '. Anyway I used up all the free credits allotted to me and I then changed my profile to secretly include my email addresses in it. From that moment on, no more new chats appears. I then grew suspicious of this site, google this site and found scams report about this site. Just to confirm if it's true, I change my profile again just to test what the administrator would do. I include the word ' I just found this site to be a scam ' in my profile, update it and immediately got the message ' YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED ' !. A big scam giveaway from this site - Those beautiful china girls photos doesn't match their age and their looks doesn't reflect their profession written in their profile. So beware guys, don't get scammed !

Dear mighoo,

We kindly ask you to advise us immediately of any scam profiles or any other problems that you have faced with on our website.
If you feel you have been scammed by any member, please feel free to contact us at
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Triptogether Customer Service Department.

I never bought credits...every single girl who sent me was not an upgraded member but she sent me several messages at once..If she was interested she would of sent me a way to contact her...You can see these girls have not posted their own
pictures they were taken by Trip Together...Similair to a model shoot...Very sad they mislead people give them false hope

Dear Gianni011,

Dear Kevin Perkis,

Please accept our deepest apologies for all inconveniences caused to you!
It is important to know, that our girls are not allowed to share their personal information with any member. They can use only website to keep in touch with those who are writing them.
If you have any additional questions feel free to contact us at support@triptogether.com.
Your can also contact us by tel. +[protected].
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Sincerely,
Triptogether Customer Service Department

Trip together.com is definitely a scam. Why do I say that ?. Read my story :
I sign up for this site. In less than 5 mins, every one, especially those beautiful china girls photos started chatting with me, one even asking that since ' I AM NEW IN THS SITE ' I must have a lot of girls chatting with me by now !. Now how on hell do they know about this ? you guys should easily guess it by now. Secondly how do i know it's a scam ?. They will immediately starts calling you ' Dear, honey, .. and so on ' - typical of scammers !. Thirdly, just watch the English that they used to chat with you. China girls have very poor command of English, all their tenses are usually wrong but these chats used very ' professional English ', unheard of from typical China girls. I have chat with China girls on other sites before and I know their standard of English, usually very poor standard.. So I guess scammer are hiding behind these beautiful china girls photos to try to trick you into buying credits or using up all your free credits in no time or they could just be a group of professional chatters, sitting together and employed by Triptogether.com to scam you !. Lastly, these chats are all from those profiles which I have viewed but none from those which I have not viewed. Somehow those ' photos ' knew that I have viewed them, so ' intelligent ' ehh ?...So guys, if you want to be scammed by this site, I can't help you. Remember and just think for a while, would anyone so beautiful ( especially those beautiful girl photos ) want to advertise themselves to look for a travelling companion or a ' dating ' mate on the internet ?. they would have been dated or snapped away in no time right ?

Dear low1,

Triptogether.com works hard to make sure scammers are deleted from the database. If anyone asks for money it is likely a scam. There are numerous incidents on all types of sites where someone asks for money, gets the money from another user, and then disappears. Don’t be fooled by such scams, and be sure to do an official legitimacy check on a person before you send any money.
What Should you do If suspect someone Is a scammer / spammer?
Please contact us immediately if you feel you've come across a scam artist or a spammer.
Email us at upport@triptogether.com and we will deal with the situation immediately.
Your can also contact us by tel. +[protected].
We work MON-FR I(8am-5pm CET)

Sincerely,
Triptogether Customer Service Department

Lol ok from what I've read I feel foolish to have not used a burner email account to sign up sign up with. I'm actually surprised at the resolve of the companies staff to keep responding on this website. The app includes no FAQ help or support pages. Or terms of use, and lacks a privacy policy. They probably are based in Ghana, as the wonderful trip together staff member pointed out - the site was registered with the un-reputable web registrar godaddy.com through a proxy service that masks the true nature of such information as the specific location, and you can now spoof local call center numbers using iPhone apps like hushed, so phone # means nothin' in relation to where the criminal enterprise trip together is being operated from. The other two tip offs they're not from Arizona: any American publicist / support agent would know that divulging a users phone number to another member by means of violating facebook's tos and national privacy laws is absurd and illegal. But that was certainly a piece of schadenfreude for us, the readers to let know that oh, someone is actually being helped by this polite and on-point service agent of trip together. The third nail in this proverbial coffin (trip together, you're dead to me, just like Wayn) is this: the website mentions it holds no policy about swapping user contact info. Yet our helpful rep admitted they're a paid flock of scammer-gals-cum-models that are not allowed to do just that. Gee I wonder why? No I don't lol, It's because they're complicit in edging your emotional state along with their paid ladies from Russia, who type to you as Armenian, Colombian or Chinese passport holders, which is odd, given it's painfully hard for PRC citizens to obtain (or simply impossible if you're not a gov official), visa documents that are required for entry for most of the planet - save for a couple places (often requiring entering thru a visa-mandatory country to get to) to get you into that state of oh no I'm gonna blow my chance with her if I don't by credits when the conversation halts. They make a living on the sad desperate-for-ove men they've fooled into a submission, based on circumstance they've crafted, who are then milked and violated out of hard earned money better spent elsewhere. Go bust a nut to porn instead, it's free.

Take care who you pick and how much you tell them, if you ever do find a stranger who agrees to travel with you. Please make sure you get to know someone over some considerable time before you contemplate this.

www.travbuddy.com

www.travellerspoint.com

www.thelmaandlouise.com

www.wandermates.com

http://twpclub.org (women only)

Dear Casualcomplainer,

We highly appreciate your feedback. At Triptogether we take all complaints very seriously. If you are a current or prior customer, please contact us as we are here to help. Also please be kindly advised that we have FAQ, Privacy Policy, Terms and conditions on our website.
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This is a scam.. I was in China last month and decided to test this site out.
I looked up people around the area. Started chatting and asked if they wanted to just meet up for dinner/food.. All of a sudden, the session would end or a message would pop up to subscribe. Pretty sure this is a scam and users are hired by the company.

Dear Shane510,

Please accept our deepest apologies for all inconveniences caused to you!
It is useful to know that our company leads the fight for scam protection.
If you feel you have been scammed by any member, we have a special online form, you can fill in to ask for a refund.
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Your can also contact us by tel. +[protected].
We work MON-FR I(8am-5pm CET).

Sincerely,
TripTogether Customer Service Department

this site seems to be run by Russian/Ukrainian mafia.. its same as anastastia date etc.. asian date... amolatina...
there are some real women on there, but the majority are fakes/paid chatters.
they update the site quickly when people report fake behaviour, but they will do nothing about fake people. these people are there to make the site money.

basically if a person on the site doesnt have a trip they are going on, they are fake. i notice the site has recently changed to say 'i invite you to visit...' these are fake profiles, professional chatters... they will change this descriptions again soon, but there are ways to spot the fakes... simply google a bit and use your brain... hot young girls dont really want you.. wake up.

Dear Castigan,

We appreciate your comment. At Triptogether we take all complaints very seriously. If you are a current or prior customer, please contact us as we are here to help.
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Site is 100% a scam. I tried talking to some girls in Mandarin (from China) and they could't respond. My guess is there is a call center somewhere answering these messages.

Dear matt spider,

Please accept our deepest apologies for all inconveniences caused to you!
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Stay with us!

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Hi, I think Trip Together is very bad site for finding travel mates. You find sensual pics of women, inviting to their place. Just say I will visit that day, they disappear. In addition, they just want to have you on the site and spend money. There are no rules to filter out not serious people or travellers. In adidiotn when you answer to a post " I invite you to xxx" and you suddenly will visit them, they disappear! The one travellers I got to talk with, tell me about their poor uncle or something like that. I will never pay a cent for this site.

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We highly appreciate any positive or negative feedback of our customers. Your satisfaction is our top priority.
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Stay with us!

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Just ask to contact them via another forum.

Set up a new email, or skyp id, and give it to them.

Tell them you will cannot afford (or in principle will not pay) for TripTogether.

See how far you get :-) (you manager a few interchanges with the lightly clad Women, before being ask to pay).

Oh ... i do not give my emails to stranger.
Really? -- oh dear. oh dear.

Oh ... i will.
Really? -- dont hold your breath.

Unfortunately, most comments on this thread seem to be from people (men (of course)) who actually paid TripTogether.

So those behind the site (not low time scammers, but big time criminals) made their cut.
The res of what comes is only honey.

Therefore NEVER PAY ANYTHING TO TripTogether.
It is a scam through and through.

Try the method i gave above. You will get contact not with even one person, who will actually travel with you.
What a joke, that is.

the site is a total scam, i have proof of this

Dear noitanon and tokio joe,

Please accept our deepest apologies for all inconveniences caused to you!
Let us inform you that our company leads the fight for scam protection.
If you feel you have been scammed by any member, we have a special online form, you can fill in to ask for a refund.You can find this form, using our website.
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lsten, idiots! ANY site that sells credits is a scam site. ANY site that has all these unnaturally wonderful looking people is a scam site. U should NEVER have to pay for simple chatting in the year 2014 with free viber and whatsapp. the greatest wonder to me is where they get all the pics for these sites. i suppose they have simply ripped them off somewhere without their owner's knowledge. anastasia.com, china love.com, asianbeauties.com, china date.com repeat ANY site selling U credits is not legit. if U want a good dating site, (or these budding travel pal sites) U will have to pay a fee for a month or 3 months and surprise, surprise, MANY of the pics on the site will not be the greatest looking examples of beauty to be found in this world. THEN U will know U have found a legit site. and even then U will encounter scammers and people outright asking U for financial help. and there is nothing unusual about that, think of U, in your uprightness, walking into a bank and asking for financial help. happens everywhere all the time, but at least these sites where you become a member are not merely milking U for minutes for credits. THINK! if somebody can convince U to buy minutes to talk, they are going to try to stretch those minutes out as long as they can to maximize their profit. they are selling nothing. these people stretching out the conversation are not the people U think or hope U are communicating with. they are there to keep U talking.ien, idiots! ANY site that sells credits is a scam site. ANY site that has all these unnaturally wonderful looking people is a scam site. U should NEVER have to pay for simple chatting in the year 2014 with free viber and whatsapp. the greatest wonder to me is where they get all the pics for these sites. i suppose they have simply ripped them off somewhere without their owner's knowledge. anastasia.com, china love.com, asianbeauties.com, china date.com repeat ANY site selling U credits is not legit. if U want a good dating site, (or these budding travel pal sites) U will have to pay a fee for a month or 3 months and surprise, surprise, MANY of the pics on the site will not be the greatest looking examples of beauty to be found in this world. THEN U will know U have found a legit site. and even then U will encounter scammers and people outright asking U for financial help. and there is nothing unusual about that, think of U, in your uprightness, walking into a bank and asking for financial help. happens everywhere all the time, but at least these sites where you become a member are not merely milking U for minutes for credits. THINK! if somebody can convince U to buy minutes to talk, they are going to try to stretch those minutes out as long as they can to maximize their profit. they are selling nothing. these people stretching out the conversation are not the people U think or hope U are communicating with. they are there to keep U talking.

Dear slooti,

As a representative of Triptogether.com I apologize you were unsatisfied with your experience on the site. We ensure you that we are a legitimate site with thousands of satisfied users, and would like to work with you directly to do whatever we can to further assist in making this right.
Kindly be informed, that our company also leads the fight for scam protection. You can reach us at
[protected] or contact us one more time please at support@triptogether.com.
We work MON-FR I(8am-5pm CET) .
We are always ready to comply with your requests.

With kind regards,
Triptogether Customer support team

Dear slootie and motoman 101,

As a representative of Triptogether.com I apologize you were unsatisfied with your experience on the site. We ensure you that we are a legitimate site with thousands of satisfied users, and would like to work with you directly to do whatever we can to further assist in making this right.
If you feel you have been scammed by any member, we have a special online form, you can fill in to ask for a refund.You can find this form, using our website.
If you have any additional questions feel free to contact us at support@triptogether.com.
Your can also contact us by tel. +[protected] or contact us one more time please at support@triptogether.com.
We work MON-FR I(8am-5pm CET) .
We are always ready to comply with your requests.

Sincerely,
TripTogether Customer Service Department