Many people who got burned by shady dating sites that display fake profiles, send fake winks/flirts and employ questionable billing practices, are naturally circumspect and it is understandable. However, at SantaMatch as you will soon see (or have seen if you have signed up) we guarantee you that 100% of profiles are real and by real people just like yourself. There are no winks/flirts on SantaMatch and our billing practices are very simple: as opposed to membership fees which are common on other dating sites, SantaMatch has only a one-time affordable profile approval fee which keeps SantaMatch scam and spam free with people who are looking to date. There are no auto-renewals or fine print.

We dedicate a significant portion of our resources to weed out the fake profiles created by Nigerian scammers. 99% of them get deleted before you even get to see them and the rest cannot contact and scam you because our profile approval requirement filters them out. If any of them use a stolen credit card, we usually catch those within minutes and mark them as scam profiles and delete them. In addition, we employ a flagging system which is used, among other things, to flag and mark suspected scammers.


The plague known as the "Romance Scam" (typically originates from Nigeria but not exclusively so) involves creating a fake profile and then trying to con the victim into sending money using emotional manipulation. This plague has infested the entire dating site industry and is most common in free dating sites where there is no barrier to entry. The scam goes like this: the scammer creates a fake profile of an attractive male or a female. The scammer will then initiate contact and try to create an emotional bond with the victim. The scammer will appear to be "traveling" or "working abroad" or on a "business trip" to West Africa or any other country where the scammer is located. After creating an emotional bond (but never meeting in person), by some "great misfortune" the scammer will "get stranded" in a third world country, having "lost all his money" or even "detained by police". The heart melting love letters will be accompanied by a plea for your financial assistance. As ridiculous as it sounds, thousands of victims fall prey to this ploy every year and find themselves driving to the nearest Western Union to make a wire transfer.

At SantaMatch the profile approval requirement eliminates this cesspool and keeps SantaMatch scam and spam free. The only fee on SantaMatch is the affordable mandatory profile approval fee, which is used to pay the staff who actually physically review each profile individually.


As mentioned already, the only fee at SantaMatch is the affordable one-time profile approval fee which lasts for one year and keeps SantaMatch scam-free with people who are looking to date. Other than that, SantaMatch is 100% free as there are no other charges or auto-renewals. The profile approval requirement is important because it also deters and eliminates pranksters, married people, "free dating site bums", NSA seekers, etc. It is especially important for females' safety since offenders can easily be traced "just in case" through their financial records. It also works to maintain a certain level of civility and quality among our members.