Is CraigsMeetFriend a Scam?

Short 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

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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

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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

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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.

rocketpay

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.craigsmeetfriend hidden charges

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 cancelledXXXHDVault.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’.

(**) Your Free Lifetime access to Webcamsbuffet-members includes a free 2 day trial promo to Premier Passport+++that renews same calendar day at a fixed $39.95/month after the trial ends unless cancelled. TO AVOID BEING CHARGED, SIMPLY CANCEL YOUR Premier Passport MEMBERSHIP BEFORE THE TRIAL PERIOD ENDS. Your lifetime access to Webcamsbuffet-members remains active even if you cancel your Premier Passport membership. 
Here is a snip from the terms and conditions
craigsmeetfriend.com hidden terms

 

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.

Video: Detecting a Phishing Email

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