I just had a scammer send me a message and when I replied I seen the line that we were "matched" on this site. I have not done the matching part on this site in years and this was not a person I would have "liked" so I did not match with them. So it looks like scammers have figured out a way around the coins to message people by auto matching or something.

I'm not sure whether replying to an initial message is treated as a mutual like or not, it could be.

Other people that have messaged me and I replied to their message have not had this auto match thing happen. So I am going to guess it is a new thing to get around buying coins to message people here. I am probably not the only one they have done this to but since I don't use the match feature here it is easy to know I did not match with them...lol

I think it is auto matching. Computer generated, based on mutual interests maybe.

It can be helpful alright, but is it also based on age or location? Not sure, tbh.

I understand the computer generated parts, they should pop up in the "People You Might Be Interested In" and "potential matches" sections. But this profile came up as a "Mutual Match" as if I already clicked that I liked them and I had not. That is where the problem is, if there is a mutual match then they do not have to waste the coins to send out messages. This defeats the purpose of having this coin system. At least with them needing coins to spam out the messages then mingle would be making money on these scammers, but if the scammers have found a way around it then this annoying feature is for nothing...

Maybe you liked their profile by mistake. Happens to me sometimes, and that gets me unwanted matches

I feel confident that your description of what transpired is inaccurate rather than that someone was able to circumvent the coin scheme.

I am just reporting the bug as it happened, but I guess Mingle is not even going to respond. I am sure they have the records and can see that I am not one that "likes" profiles so I should not get matched. I did my part and reported the bug in their system...