According to CheckPeople, that number is a landline and lists to a 58-year-old woman in Connecticut.

Furthermore, according to CheckPeople, that number is only associated with a 61-year-old woman in California.

Good profile. Possibly more text in the "blurb" part.

It depends on how different the cultures are. For example, I moved from Sweden to the UK and then to the US. I had no problems whatsoever in adapting.

I would expect that moving to Japan or China or Niger or ... might have presented difficulties.

How did you arrive at the specific figure of 95%?

What's the difference between a serious marriage and a marriage?

I suggest adding much to your narrative.

Strong words. In fact, since fraud is a criminal act, I'm not sure that fraud is justified. While the current management seems unwilling to improve the site, the site is still usable.

I second that idea. Unfortunately, implementing the idea may lead to legal consequences for the owners and administrators, should some innocent party's profile be posted on such a chat room.

Possible but unlikely. This site has a lot of scammers, so the odds of finding a real person that meshes well with you are low.

Even harder to rate a deactivated profile.

Do you have any evidence to back up your statements?

I read somewhere on this site that, if you look at the profile of a person and that person has significantly more pictures in their profile than you have in yours, the excess is blurred. For example, I have only one picture in my profile and, at most, I can see two pictures on the other profile.

BTW, this is a fairly new change. At times, I wonder whether the owners and administrators have the users' interest in mind. Of course, in an ideal world, that's what would be their highest priority.

Yes, Teacher! How long should I stay in the corner?

I forgot to mention that a warning sign is when several different profiles claim to come from one small town. An example I encountered is that about 10 profiles claimed to be from Almont, Colorado. When I looked up Almont, Colorado, on Google, I found two population counts, 423 and 194. It is extremely unlikely that a significant fraction (between 2.5 and 5 percent, or between 1 in 40 and 1 in 20) of Almont's population a) is female, b) is on Mingle, and c) is in the age range I'm looking for or expressed an interest in me.

There are a number of reasons. I will just list a couple.

Humans are complicated creatures, causing a larger number of factors that have to mesh.

Soulmates, if they exist for a given individual, are few and far between, particularly in regard to geographic distance.

Bottom line: most of us have to settle for a reasonable approximation of a soulmate.

All except 5) applies to men, too. Men's version of 5) is that they produce less testosterone.

In principle, I agree. Unfortunately, most attempts occur after the conversation has gone off Mingle, so there's no on-Mingle evidence. After all, many scammers aren't fools; they "just" have a severe lack of ethics.

With some women I have met, doing so would be a wonderful idea. In fact, with such women, I'd prefer to keep them there until I'm dead.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of scammers on this site.

A few things to look for:

1. They want to take the discussion off Mingle very quickly.

2. They say they love you, well before they know you.

3. They use well-known methods to try to scam you. For example, the latest attempt to scam me used the classic "I have money coming in, but I don't want to pay 40% in fees (or taxes or ...) so why don't you take the payment and pay me the amount less some lower percentage." Of course, if you accept the offer, you are guilty of tax evasion or money laundering or ... Naturally, if you actually get a check, it will bounce sky high.

4. Others ask for money because they have some unexpected expenses or are waiting for some soon-to-arrive money.

5. Others want pictures of you, wholly or partially naked. The probable intent is blackmail.

BTW, all of the above has happened to me. Fortunately, I didn't fall for them.

To all of you who read this: please contribute more examples of scams. After all, I have been on this site for less than a year, so my experiences probably don't cover more than a small fraction of the scamming methods.