Absolute Scam One of my Facebook “friends” has been posting links to this dating site. I thought I knew this person well enough to trust something they sent me. So I poked around for a bit. In order to communicate with anyone, you have to pay a “token” (translation: hard cash). But this means every single time you say anything at all, regardless of how trivial. I handed them $30 so I could chat a bit with a few of the females. Then things got strange. The girls on Mature Dates have been coached (or bribed) to ask a lot of questions and to engage in idle flattery. This means you can’t get anywhere on a topic, and, perversely, it’s had to leave one without insulting somebody. One gal actually asked me if she could share a secret. I politely (and stupidly) said “Yes” ($ ka-ching). “I have narcolepsy. Is that going to be OK with you?” “I’m not so sure about that, sorry…” ($ ka-ching). The texts the females write feel quite purposeful, as if they studied how to spend the maximum time on getting nowhere. So it’s also possible that they either paid some girls for their photos or perhaps this is just another AI stunt where you chat with robots. So I asked some of them to self-certify through video chat, WhatsApp, etc. That was like hitting a hornet’s nest. It broke their script. I finally asked if they would anonymously dial my phone number (using *67 to prevent exposure), and that got even more snide remarks. I even got called a “bot” myself 😊 I wanted to thank our “friend” for posting links to this site. I am sure it was done out of generosity. And I gained so much as a human being. Isn’t that what the Internet is all about? Please feel free to post this article everywhere you can so we can stop these scams. They’re certainly learning a bit too much for their own good.