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Claiming to be "The world's largest sex and swinger’s personals community", Adult Friend Finder is one of the most visited commercial websites on the internet, with more than 20 million members worldwide. The website is basically a meeting place for those looking for sex partners, friendship, or serious relationship. Adult Friend Finder was initially a traditional online dating service known as FriendFinder, but when members started posting photos with adult content, the owners decided to create a brand new “Adult” dating site. Thus, Adult Friend Finder was born, and along with it several related sites such as , , etc came into being.
Search System
The search system on Adult Friend Finder is based on criteria such as Your status - woman, man, couple, two women, two men, and group; What you are seeking - woman, man, couple, two women, two men, and group; and What you are looking for - sex, group sex, discreet relationship, chat, and fetishes.
Membership: Standard, Silver and Gold
Standard or basic membership and registration on Adult Friend Finder is free, with which you can you can chat, post a profile, send instant messages, and browse through the worldwide database of profiles (limited). In addition, the popularity of your profile can earn you privileged access. However, you need to upgrade your membership in order to contact other members via anonymous email and enjoy the other special features. For example, with Silver or Gold Membership ($12 per month), you
• can view and contact any members
• get more comprehensive search options
• receive a personalized list of potential matches
• can watch thousands of member videos
• faster profile/photo approvals
• have your profile featured above those posted by basic members
• customer support
With Gold Membership, you have access to all services with a much better speed; storage limit, duration, and size are also expanded, and you can use specific keywords in the search option to obtain all details of other profiles that you might be interested in.
Chat and Webcam:
Any registered member can join the chat room but privileges extended to paying customers include the ability to hotlink to any profile of other chatters, and open private chat rooms. Paying members can also broadcast their live webcam publicly to any member who desires to watch, or to the entire chat room crowd. About 1000 to 1500 live webcams are broadcasted at any given time, and members have the option of paging the broadcasting member to begin a chat session. Besides webcam and chat, downloadable and web-based instant messengers are also available.
Adult Friend Finder has recently been accused of scam and online phishing. Several sources have reported that the public has been deceived with fake profiles, chat room “decoys”, fake communications, and Advance fee fraud. There are also charges regarding the use of contentious advertising techniques such as spam and spyware. Whether these accusations are true or not, Adult Friend Finder continues to remain one of the biggest online sex and swinger’s personals communities in the world, still increasing in size and membership.
Adult Friend Finder is one of the most visited commercial websites on the internet, an online sex and swinger personals community now accommodating more than 20 million members worldwide. Basic membership and registration on Adult Friend Finder is free but you need to upgrade your membership in order to contact other members via anonymous email, instant messaging, webcam etc, and enjoy the other features. For example, with Gold Membership ($12 per month), you can view other profiles, video introductions, live video streams, contribute to an online magazine, and more. With basic membership, you can only post a profile.
Like many online dating and personals websites, Adult Friend Finder has also been accused of scams and online phishing (a criminal activity that uses social engineering techniques). Many has reported that owners of this popular online community have been deceiving the public by creating and posting fake profiles with photographs of beautiful and attractive women, in order to draw visitors. These innocent visitors are then directed to porn sites, or an Adult Friend Finder scam known as Advance fee fraud, an online confidence scam in which the target is convinced to advance moderately small sums of money in the hope of securing a much larger gain.
Adult Friend Finder scam is also based on charges regarding the use of contentious advertising techniques such as spam and spyware, designed to collect many different types of information about the user, and interrupt the normal operation of the visitor's computer in order to promote a third party. For example, using this malicious software, the Adult Friend Finder scam can track what types of websites a user visits and send this information to an advertisement agency.
Supporters of Adult Friend Finder claim that approximately 4-5% of the population in most U.S. states has a profile on Adult Friend Finder, and half of these profiles are for Men seeking Women. These profiles are not duplicate, fraudulent, or inactive, and the Adult Friend Finder scam has been fabricated by competing websites to defame and discredit the very successful online adult community website. However, there are other views that maintain that the Adult Friend Finder scam is a reality that cannot be ignored.
The most recent criticism comes from people who claim to have been fooled into purchasing full membership by the Adult Friend Finder scam, which uses “decoys” in the chat rooms. According to witnesses, these chat room decoys operate by posing as real people to initiate a continuous conversation with their mark. Once a potential victim has been identified, he/she would then be coaxed into purchasing or upgrading into full membership to access all of the sites features.
In addition to the above criticism, even members who have purchased full membership (such as Gold Members) have been complaining about Adult Friend Finder scams such as fake communications, requesting e-mail and asking to pay for an account on another website.