Secret Benefits review: 4+ yrs assessment - fake profiles, bots and scams

This site could have been legit but there are so many things not right. I have been a member over 3 years now.

1. More than half are fake profile and bots. Either they will respond to you with a short note and then no response back and you just lost your credit for viewing the message. Or you write to someone and 7 out of 10 no response.

2. The profiles recirculate and folks I have seen 3 years ago, would disappear for 6 month and would show up again. Some showed up annually like clockwork. In several years the age remains the same and didn’t increase lol.

3. If you get lucky, 8 out of ten just wants to scam you and wants money for meet, uber ride, dinner plan, nails done and then there is no show as you may have sent a good faith fund to help with babysitter or uber ride. 2 would actually be legit and they too have alternate motive but its how to set the expectations.

4. If you report scam, you dont often get your credit back.

I think they hired a 3rd party marketing team to boost membership and at the backend all sort of fake profile and bots are build to generate attraction but you can be sure that you will get seldom response back. I had over 2500 credits and have done extensive engagement and to be honest got maybe 8 connection who were legit out of 100s. There are some legit users there and this is how I now play the game.

I like someone, I request additional photo access. A bot can auto approve photo request. But I look to see if the bot did my page visit and also if they requested the same. 8 out 10 they do not and I know its a fake profile. I also wait to see if I get a message, if not then that confirms my theory as well.

Fake user/bot also sends new message. If they haven't visited your page and you get a message, that to me is a red flag as well.

I also typically wait few days to respond to the message and wait to see user online activity. In most cases they will show last seen 2+ days ago and that is another indicator of fake profile/bot.

I wouldn't time here and it would be cheaper to go to a bar and buy drinks for stranger and make friends. Oh also, this site is branded into other different names and not just SB.

Good luck and save your $$. I spent a lot with not much success. Oh and the positive review you see here, most likely the fake users and bots accounts made it possible. I wonder if anyone filed a complain with BBB and actually audit and investigate the legitimacy of the site ... hummmm

UPDATE July 19 - SB contacted me and based on the review in the past , they offered some credit to my ac and asked me to take the review down. I had since purchased over $500 worth credit and had 900 some credit as of last night and today they closed the account. Which is fine but they owe me money-back. This would be another flag on how accurate the feedback is. See email screenshot lol… if I don’t get my refund , I am filing a BBB complain.

If they can close your ac for legit review can you image what they can do with the messages and interaction you had in the platform.

Date of experience: July 15, 2024

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