Thank you for using Ozdeai.

Being a free site there's not much we can do about people who manually create a profile for spamming. There are also innocent users who get excited by all these wonderful people here and try and contact 100 of them in a day thereby being considered a spammer when they're not.

The quickest way to spot a spammy profile is that it'll have

A) Someone absolutely stunningly gorgeous or uber handsome in a perfectly taken professional looking picture. Models don't have time to be trawling online dating sites and they are also well paid so wouldn't be on a free site anyway. 

B) Pictures of flowers that look identical to other pictures of flowers on other profiles

C) Someone describing themselves as single, married, in a relationship and divorced - all at the same time

D) Someone describing their ideal person as single, married, in a relationship and divorced - all at the same time

E) Repeated text like "i want to meet a nice guy i want to meet a nice guy i want to meet a nice guy"

F) Ticking absolutely everything. Now a lot of us are lazy and I'm also looking to make friends from around the world so I clicked on the 'tick everything' option box which meant I ticked every country in my profile along with every language. But everything else was specific. Check to make sure logical choices have been made. 

G) The message in the comments or the email they send does not specifically apply to you. If it is a standard email it's a fake. If you said in your profile that you want to learn Japanese but you got an email from Senegal or the Ivory Coast saying that you'd be the perfect husband and they want to meet you, well, they didn't read your profile!

I hope this helps you in spotting spammers and fake profiles. If you spot a spammy profile, please use the 'report profile' link to make a note about it and I'll check and remove it asap.

Update: Many, many thanks to all the people who report the spammy profiles. I check and delete them from my report file almost every morning. Thank you for helping everyone keep the site as clean as possible.  

Many thanks for using Ozdeai. - James 

P.S. Until recently, the maximum number of emails someone could send to each other through the site has been 20 per person per day, to reduce the chance of spam. I've recently increased this amount slightly due to requests from people who want to have a long conversation with one person via the site before giving out their email addresses.  If you do reach your limit, leave a message in the comments section on the person's profile to say that you'll be back the next day. If you suddenly find you get an increase in emails from scammers from this site, please contact me and I'll drop it back to 20 per day. Cheers