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I did (I hope I did it well). For curiosity, I have joined Zoosk about a month ago and experienced a sly pushing to contact members. After you send a message the system notifyes that it is better to "validate you message paying the fee .....". I had sent to their staff this question: "can non-paying members contact other members?". The sly and misleading answer was something like "as non paying member you may send only a limited number of messages ....". When I asked what they mean for "a limited number" I got no answer. They try to grab your personal info, but do not give possibility to contact anybody without payment of fee. Like most commercial dating services. And this information should be given on wikipedia, for the sake of truth. Sorry I am new on this system and I don't know if and how to sign here this comment.
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Zoosk is an entity that everyone will encounter, sooner or later. Its business practices are very aggressive, to say the least. Because the company is real and people will see ads and receive invitations, an honest and complete description of the company is a proper service. It shouldn't be deleted.
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I was caught in a phishing/spamming/spoofing attack by zoosk. A clearly programmed effort to trick people into joining who have no interest in a dating site, and then tricking them into opening up their email accounts so zoosk can copy and spam every one of their contacts. I researched the program,
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FYI: Zoosk has just tried to charge one of my credit cards, without authorization, and this fraudulent attempt is now under investigation by Bank of
America. I had never heard of Zoosk, when I received a call from Bank of America this morning. Since the charges were not significantly large for my
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I read that and I don't believe I've violated it. Users are cautioned against COI editing, but states clear guidelines for declaring your COI on the talk page, as I've done without prompting. I provided examples of other accepted pages in the same class as this website. The edits I made were
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It should, however, clearly describe the various aggressive practices employed. Copy of website content is not appropriate, as it would be incomplete and deceptive. THe company is very well represented on complaint sites for a variety of practices. That is what the company is about.
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America would have notified me, is that the source of the charge(s) was suspicious. Conclusion: Bank of America recognizes Zoosk as a source of fraudulent activity. For this reason alone, I strongly recommend removal of this page.
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I'm going to work on cleaning up the article, which I agree needs work. Full disclosure: I work at Zoosk. I will try to be as neutral as possible, and rely on the community to correct me if I am not. I feel that this page warrants its existence based on the fact that
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described it factually, and put it into the wikipedia profile. Not anecdotal. It is a business practice of the company. It is used to inflate membership numbers which, in turn, drives their valuation. There is a lot of collateral damage.
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Zoosk, Inc charged a fee to one of my credit cards, without authorization. Luckily, Chase Bank called me and stopped the charge, and changed my credit card number. Perhaps this information should also be associated with the article?
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purely factual data, based on third party sources, and I invite anyone to correct them. I'm not promoting, and I believe that all the information I've provided is general company information, and easily third-party verifiable.--
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all have pages, and are smaller than Zoosk by many measurements (which I will cite). I also contest the assertion that this page is spam. It does not currently have much information, but it does not classify as spam (see
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I have been in conversation with people in my address book who have been linked to me by zoosk without our awareness. I came to wikipedia hoping to find some information about zoosk tactics such as those commented on here:
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finding the reliable sources to back it up - there is possibly a lot of anecdotal material about problems with the company, often self published, but it might prove to be tricky to get good sources. -
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