I got about 5 messages the first 2-3 minutes after signing up. A short while later, I had roughly 20 random women contacting me. Good thing I have screenshots, because they stopped coming as soon as WooMe noticed my post.

I can only see what these supposedly real women are trying to tell or ask me until I pay up. That's all fine and dandy, but there's no point in pretending that real users were just all jumping on the opportunity to meet a horse in such a short time period.

You're doing this for work, right? Why not go ahead and pay the $25 and see what the messages say?

Yes, I'm curious to see how they deal with a response to the messages. Seems like it would be a lot of trouble for them to do anything besides send some fake messages and not reply to them (although I guess they could automate those, too).

It would really be interesting to create a second account, or even a second paid account, and see if any of the messages were exactly the same.

Because it could be one of those services that is hard to cancel without cancelling the credit card.

"I don't know what he received so I can't say."

Speak straight. Do you or do you not send automated messages or messages from fake accounts in an effort to entice visitors to sign up?

we do not.

Bullshit.

http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/woome.png

Yeah, that's a "real" dater.

that's not a message from a user.

It however looks like a user and people will think it's a user. So it's a fake user.

Are you aware of any process by which new users are sent automated messages from accounts, valid or not?

They might be paying commission to users that get other users to pay for membership. That would generate very bot-like behavior even if the users are "real".

Is it your belief that the messages in question are genuine?

Stop pretending I'm not engaging in a conversation.