BEWARE!
I just got back from the Kirkland police department, assisting a friend in filing a report after being scammed over 65k from a "match" that she made on this site in November (2009).
The guy claimed that he is from a nearby city in Nigeria on business. He spent a month before his "business trip" luring the lonely woman in & when the "trip" took place, all sorts of "bad things" befell him. This included an international credit card that supposedly did not work, an auto accident that required paid medical expenses, & need of a laptop to be shipped to him.
Her life savings is gone, & there is about 20k worth of cash advances for her to pay.
Match.com offers no easy way to contact them to report this in a timely manner. The information is needed immediatly to get the secret service on track, but no luck there.

Has anyone had any problems with a profile saying "Active within 24 hours, 3 days, etc..." without the profile actually being accessed or active within that time frame?

This is the biggest ripoff most of the people on there have a discontinued profile, they just keep them up to lure you in. When you try to contact these people they never access the email they no longer are on the service. Then they just keep your money.

since they were doing web site maintenance early the morning of 13 oct 2009, i have not been able to log in to check my emails. i have tried :
username: twisteddemon password: twisted42
username: [email protected] password: twisted42
neither one works, and this is the fourth complaint i have sent and i only received one answer after the first. i would appreceiate some help if possible. do i need to stop payment on this and start over or try something else? thank you.

will not let me log into my email at [email protected]