Site eDarling “divorce” in the money of their members – Express-News

17.09 | 14:22

The League of Safe Internet (STI) appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request for verification of the dating site eDarling on compliance with the Russian legislation. A similar request was made first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, IT and Communications Andrey Tumanov, who in turn sent a deputy’s request to the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova.

According to STI, the site eDarling extort money from users who once benefited from its services. It turned out that they have activated avtoplatezha continue to try to re-charge your card activated. In the case of a lack of funds on the card or cancel the transaction by the user at him begin to come the threat of litigation.

«Website hired collectors, who knocked out the debts to former users of this resource. You need to check these actions for fraud and extortion, “- said the essence of the appeal board chairman STI Denis Davydov.

Deputy Andrey Tumanov sure that all signs of fraud.

« Man does not use site, and it was billed, but then debt sold, “and if such questions do not take measures, then tomorrow people will rob you in all directions, the MP believes.

As an example, a case that happened with Alice Belousova, former users of the site. Her e-mail message arrived on debt in the amount of 3210 rubles, formed as a result of non-fulfillment of its obligations. Further, administration of the site (entity – German Affinitas GmbH) asks “immediately repay the arrears.” Otherwise Alice Belousova face “a significant increase in the amount of penalties in respect of the costs of debt collection and legal costs».

It should be noted that in January, a number of Russian users of the site eDarling, including, and Belousov, accessed with a similar complaint to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). However, according to Belousova, FAS is first asked to send additional information, and then completely refused to institute criminal proceedings due to lack of materials.

According to an independent lawyer Anton Bogatov, “technically correct, in essence – a mockery” that is, users themselves should have been familiar with the contract.