Ronin
RoninShort answer: Yes, craigsmeetfriend is a scam, a particularly nasty one. Here are few quick Details
CraigsMeetFriend – What You See
After you enter a email, name, and create a user id and password, you see a page that looks like this
If you read the terms and conditions, what you find is that it is not a signup for craigsmeetfriend, but rather Instanthookups.com. The T&C’s are pretty generic and there are no charges there. The only thing worthy of note is this
“ONLINE REGENTS: instanthookups.com UTILIZES VIRTUAL PROFILES THAT DO NOT CORRESPOND TO ACTUAL MEMBERS”
CraigsMeetFriend – What You Can’t See
Craigsmeetfriend uses an Iframe command to redirect you to the instant hookups signup page
The Dateverifytracking link transfers you to instanthookups.com, and when it is time to enter your credit card, it is an upgrade page, that looks like this
On the right, it is an upgrade for 3 separate dating or pornography services. There is a company and a billing site that rotates with each click. Here is what it says, with my emhpasis:
(*) Please give me a Free Lifetime Membership to InstantHookups. There’s no charge to sign up for a free lifetime membership, which also includes a free one day trial to InstantHookups-PremiumVip, rebilling at $49.95 monthly unless cancelled. Your free lifetime membership to InstantHookups will remain active even if you cancel your PremiumVip membership. TO AVOID BEING CHARGED THE FULL MONTHLY FEE JUST CANCEL BEFORE THE TRIAL PERIOD ENDS. PremiumVip members have unrestricted site access and unlimited communication with site members.
This charge will appear on your cardholder statement as ‘sxioxa.com 8552504172 Upsell Ltd., 4 Gordon Road, Chatham, England, ME4 5LR’
Special FREE Bonus Offer
(*) PremiumVip membership includes:
– Unlimited access to HookupCl***.com – hookup with over 10 million horny members, two day $1.95 trial, rebilling at $39.95 monthly
– Bonus Offer – HDSchool***.com, 1000s of school girl vids, fourteen day free trial, rebilling at $29.95 monthly
That is almost $120 a month that you can’t see. In this case, it would appear on your credit card as sxioxa.com 8552504172 Upsell Ltd.
What is RocketPay?
Here is a closer look at that section. The square on the bottom left is a check box that is pre-checked for you. I clicked on the question mark to reveal the text below it.
So in addition to $120 per month in recurring charges, you are giving Rocketpay (rocketgate.com) permission to keep your personal information, including your credit card.
I have looked into this company before. Its not good. The company sells itself as a payment processing company, The website is registered anonymously, which is unusal for a company that would be in payment processing, Will have more information in the future. I know the name of the owner, I just have to go back in my records.
So yes, Craigsmeetfriend is a scam that will cost you $120 per month, with the added bonus of giving your credit card Rocketgate.com.
If you have given this site your credit card, you need to take action. See my post Date Verification Scam for information on what you need to do.
Even More Scams
The iframe controller in craigsmeetfriend.com will route to different back end scams, depending on how you use the site. If you click on one of the girls for instance, eventually you are at a pornography site that rotates. What you see is on the left side, what you cannot see are the charges on the right. If you click on the terms and conditions, there is another charge, of $39.99, bringing this to nearly $170.00.
Here is what that fine print says, with my emphasis
| Special FREE Bonus Offer: |
+ Your Platinum Membership Details++: –EroticDvdsOnline.com – 7 Days Free Trial, membership renews same calendar day at a fixed $39.94/monthly, after the trial period ends unless cancelled–XXXHDVault.com – 10 Days Free Trial, membership renews same calendar day at a fixed $49.95/monthly, after the trial period ends unless cancelled
Any charges made to your credit card will appear under ‘COLLCTBILL.COM’.
Extra Bonus
One last thing, if you have given your email to someone who sent to to any site like this, eventually they will sell the email to the dark web. You will be sent phishing and spam emails.
