Received an email today from the Twoo dating site that I had a Twoo SmartMatch with a guy from London.
Wahoo, so exciting to see who I was Twoo SmartMatched with, hope he’s hot!!!
Email Subject: Decide within the next 24 hours if you like Sergey, your SmartMatch
Sergey, 26
Lives in London
Wants to meet women aged 19 to 29
I only have a day to review Sergey, as “Your SmartMatch will disappear in 24 hours. Review your SmartMatch before your time runs out.”
I better check my Twoo SmartMatch out on the Twoo dating app sharpish then, don’t want to miss out on a real hotty from London!
Then I realize, I’m no where near London (about 150 miles away), I’m not aged 19 to 29, I’m not even a woman and probably more important than that (you never know, Sergey might swing both ways) I never joined the dating site Twoo!
In fact I’ve NEVER joined any online dating site, I’ve been very happily married for over 25 years and have no interest in meeting a potential partner (or cheating on my wife via a dating app!): for the record I’ve also not joined any site/service that’s designed to meet other people (people in person) beyond social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc… which are not for meeting people in person per se.
Twoo Dating Site Sends Email SPAM!
You can see in the screenshot of the Twoo SPAM email above at the bottom it states:
You received this notification because you are registered as David Law (******@gmail.com) on Twoo – Unsubscribe. Massive Media Match NV, Emile Braunplein 18, 9000 Ghent, Belgium BE0537240636. info-en@twoo.com
Hmm, I’m registered on the Twoo dating site without my permission and I’m receiving dating matches with men. Wonderful!
Twoo Login
Since I never signed up to the Twoo dating site I obviously didn’t have a Twoo login password, but I wanted to see what info the Twoo dating site held about me. You can see from the screenshot above they know my name is David Law so must have scraped my gmail account from a source which also hold my name.
I used the Twoo password reminder form to generate a new password and logged in.
Based on my Twoo dating profile (which I did NOT sign up for!) they have my Gmail email address and my first and last name. No profile image, no gender, no date of birth, no city listed.
What appears to have happened is Twoo have scraped my Gmail email address and name from one of my email contacts address book. They have signed me up for a dating site without my permission!
From Twoo Privacy page:
Importing your contacts
In some countries Twoo offers members an easy import tool to invite your mail contacts to register on Twoo. If you decide to import your contacts, you confirm that they have given you their consent to do so and you accept that an automatic e-mail invitation and reminder will be sent on your behalf to the contacts you have selected. Twoo stores the contact details of your friends only for the purpose of automatically connecting them with you after their registration.
Twoo does not sell e-mail addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations. Your contacts can click the unsubscribe link in the invitation mails to prevent receiving further invitations from Twoo.
The unethical Twoo dating service are signing people up to their website/service without their permission and sending a plethora of unsolicited email SPAM, this is an unethical business practice!
Hmm, what a load of BS. As if a user is going to check with all their email contacts and gain consent! For the record none of my email contacts have acquired my permission to be contacted by the Twoo dating site, so the Twoo dating site should NOT have created a dating account associated with my email address and name and definitely shouldn’t be sending me Twoo SmartMatches.
I think sending me a Twoo SmartMatch with 26 year old Sergey from London is way beyond an email invitation to join the Twoo dating site. Twoo registered my email address with their service, (if I wasn’t registered the Password Reminder wouldn’t have worked) and are sending me Twoo SmartMatches at a rate of roughly one match every 2 days!
Twoo are a bunch of unethical scumbag SPAMMERS.
It’s bad enough that Twoo scrape data this way, but to automatically sign people up to their online dating service is an unacceptable business practice.
Time to look into what sort of complaint I can make about Twoo’s business practices in the UK.
What is Twoo?
From their About page:
Twoo is the most fun way to meet new people near you.
Millions of people
With over 13 million monthly active users*, Twoo is the largest site to meet new people. Twoo is available in over 200 countries and in 38 languages.
Will I be considered an active Twoo user because I logged in to find out why they signed me up without permission! Based on their shady business practices it wouldn’t be surprising to find out most of their active users are fake dating accounts.
Real people, really active
Every day, over a million new connections are made between real people on Twoo. Whether you fancy chatting, searching, sharing photos or meeting people easily, Twoo is full of exciting people!
I wonder if the millions of new connections are people like me who have been registered without permission! If a real Twoo user has 100 email contacts and Twoo sent all 100 a Twoo invitation, that’s 100 Twoo dating profiles the users didn’t agree to, they are fake Twoo dating profiles!
Real-time, anywhere!
Never miss a beat with the Twoo iPhone, Android and Windows Phone apps. Check out our mobile site or install our browser and desktop plugins to stay up to date with all activity on your profile.
But I didn’t sign up to the Twoo dating app in the first place, I don’t want it on my phone or my Desktop PC!
If this has happened to you, feel free to make a comment below.
David Law : Happily married, not looking to meet anyone.
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It would appear Gmail considers most emails from Twoo as SPAM. I read my Gmail emails in Mozilla Thunderbird (I don’t log into Gmail in a browser window). Most Gmail SPAM is blocked by Gmail before it’s sent on to Thunderbird, so I don’t see most of it.
In my Gmail SPAM folder (viewing Gmail directly) are 6 emails from Twoo. Looks like Gmail missed the “Decide within the next 24 hours if you like Sergey, your SmartMatch” email SPAM mentioned in the main article.
Twoo SmartMatch SPAM
My first Twoo SPAM email is dated 26th September 2016, I received a Welcome to Twoo! SPAM Email with a notification I had an account and what the login password was.
Note I never joined the Twoo dating site or any dating site (ever).
IF someone signed me up for a Twoo account it looks like Twoo do not have a double opt in system before they start SPAMMING your email account. That’s annoying.
Five days later I receive my first Twoo SmartMatch
Email subject: Iza is your new SmartMatch, decide now if you like her
Iza is your new SmartMatch. Check her out.
Iza
Iza, 21
Lives in London
Wants to meet men aged 25 to 35
Two days later another Twoo SmartMatch
Email subject: Your SmartMatch, Duan Igeve, will disappear in 24 hours – act now
Duan Igeve is your new SmartMatch. Check him out.
Duan Igeve
Duan Igeve, 34
Helicopter Pilot
Lives in London
Wants to meet women aged 22 to 45
“Enjoying my PILOT CARRIER. Kenya going home for vacation sweet home Kenya miss you i am coming ,God loves us all for poor .I’ll always support urchins and orphan children.I dont regret having you God in my life”
Two more days and some more Twoo SPAM.
Email subject: Learn more about Teo, your SmartMatch
Teo is your new SmartMatch. Check her out.
Teo
Teo, 26
Lives in London
Wants to meet men aged 21 to 36
Two more days and more Twoo SmartMatch SPAM.
Email subject: Andrei is your new SmartMatch, decide now if you like him
Andrei is your new SmartMatch. Check him out.
Andrei
Andrei, 27
Lives in London
Wants to meet women aged 20 to 31
Guess what, yes, two more days and more Twoo SPAM.
Email subject: Wondering who your SmartMatch is for today? Check her out in the next 24 hours!
Božena is your new SmartMatch. Check her out.
Božena
Božena, 21
Lives in London
Wants to meet men aged 18 to 31
Two more days and that’s when I received the first SPAM that got through to Thunderbird.
Guess I’ll be getting another SPAM email from Twoo in the next 24hrs.
Twoo SPAM could be really annoying if Gmail didn’t automatically mark it as SPAM.
David Law
I have apparently been signed up with TWOO. I have no idea how, I do NOT even look at these kinds of sites. I am happily married, and don’t even want to try and login in case they send me anything like a match.
This is potentially damaging to my personal reputation, as a pastor of a large church I find this completely inappropriate.
If anyone finds out how to get rid of them, please let me know.
Thanks
So i was getting messages in my inbox saying about smartmatches etc i dont remember signing up to it.
Anyways my profile had been linked to my fb so it had photos and loads of other information taken from facebook anyways my now ex girlfriend assumed id been messaging women when i hadnt and now im single because of it.
If anyone opened a case in court, I’d gladly join. Just got an email from b-ds that they welcome me in twoo. Wrote them following:
[info-uk@twoo.com » absolutely disgusted with you virus-like crap
I have NEVER joined your spam, wish to find a way to sue you for using my email and registering without consent. Will do my best to find the way. Absolutely disgusted. How you manage to legalise your virus in the official way? Cannot really wish you well]
And I am serious, if anyone found the way how to sue them – I am with you, guys.
I have encountered exactly the same bs. Why can’t it be stopped?
When i received a TWOO invitation email with a name of one of my contacts, I push “Read his invitation” and automatically they subscribe me.
It’s really annoying and unfair.
I suppose that all my contacts will receive similar emails from now, and I’m very disgusted about that.
I have not created any account, nor writed user name or passwords.
I don’t know what can I do. Any suggestion? I live in Spain
There is a section on verifications.
I noticed facebook was the only one that was verified so I presume it’s thanks to facebook that I have been registered without my consent.
The email link has an unsubscribe link that just takes you into the Twoo site.
No sign of it once in site so it appears that u can not actually unsubscribe
lately i started getting strange mails as i signed in in some dating site called twoo.
i heard about it for the first time.
it was suspicious to me because i never use such sites but i keep getting emails.
how can i stop it?
Has any of my profiles been hacked?
i don’t know who gave them permission to do such low things