Kelleher & Associates MAJOR Ripoff and Scam Scottsdale Arizona

You're absolutely right to believe that this is a scam because it absolutely is! I worked there as a counselor for many months and can tell you that just about everything they tell you to hook you in is false and misleading.

First, they love to tell you that all of their counselors are college educated, well I'm not, so I can attest that it's a lie. They love to hire attractive, professional looking people to inspire confidence, but all we really do is interview people, put some answers into the computer and then wait for it to spit out some names as "matches."

The software they use to match is woefully inconsistent and it does amount to pulling names out of the hat. I asked about it once and I was told that it gives more weight to certain questions, but they would never tell me which ones they were. And after getting a particularly nasty phone call from one of the clients I'd matched, I dug up his score and the lady he was set on a date with and you didn't need a computer to tell that these people were not going to get along. When a man says he's looking for a woman in her early thirties with no kids, and we set him up with a woman in her forties with three kids and two ex-husbands -- he's going to be upset.

The "associates" put tremendous pressure on the counselors not just to sign up clients and get the check, but also to string them along for as many months as we could to keep the checks rolling in. Several occasions I felt downright dirty telling clients what I did. But I had to. I had to get the check or I was out of a job. But eventually, even a steady job couldn't fix the way I felt looking people in the eye who were desperate for love and lie to them. I had to quit.

Don't give these people any money. Their databases are tiny, which is why they have to charge so much. If they actually had plenty of people to make matches with, they could charge less. The scam here is advertising it all as some "high class" dating service, but it really isn't.