If you’ve been looking for love online, you have probably come across Plenty of Fish.

One of the downsides of using the POF dating services is that you have to pay a monthly membership.

Whereas on paid dating sites the use of credit card authentication helps to weed out the less serious daters, and also prevents some (but not all) of the scammers slipping through. Their scam filters are also very good, and when combined with a little common sense, there is no reason at all why you can’t find you soul mate on a free site like Plenty of Fish.

Founded in 2003 by Markus Frind from Canada, Plenty of Fish (POF) has rapidly grown to become the largest dating site in the world.

— JENELLE SCHNEIDER/PNGMarkus Frind is far too lean and thoughtful to be mistaken for a mischievous cherub, but he knows more than Cupid ever will about love potions.For the first seven years, this worked really well.I got the site to 10 million users without any employees and POF was generating a ton of relationships."The site had led to the birth of an estimated one million babies, Frind claimed recently. In this review I’ll be looking at the largest free dating site on our planet, and it goes by the name: Plenty of Fish (POF).Free dating has always been very controversial, with many saying it’s a magnet for people looking for casual sex and scammers trying to rip people off. Yes, the percentage of members on free sites looking for casual encounters is a lot higher, but it’s still within the boundaries of reasonable.