What is Zorpia?
So you want to know what is Zorpia all about? Zorpia is a social networking site functioning in the same way as Facebook. Zorpia is available in two languages, English and surprisingly Chinese.
Jeffrey Ng is the founder of this social networking site. This site saw the light of day on December 7, 2003.
It has a customer base in the range of 31 million with about 2 million new users added every month. The company has its base in Hong Kong. The site is popular in India and China. In fact, about 40% of its subscribers are from India.
What prompted the creation of Zorpia?
Facebook cannot operate in China. This prompted the creation of Zorpia for the benefit of the Chinese people. It is one of the few “social media network service” providers to receive permission to operate in China.
What is the aim of Zorpia?
Zorpia is a platform where you can make and meet friends. You can correspond with them, share experiences, photographs, and profiles.
People have seen Zorpia as an alternative to the more famous Facebook. In many ways, Zorpia shares many features with Facebook. There are similarities in the way they function as a connecting media tool. You can connect with anybody in the world using Zorpia.
You can find your old friends in Zorpia, provided they too are using the same media networking service. Today Zorpia has become a key player in the social media network.
Advantages of using Zorpia:
- You can connect to any one instantaneously.
- You can send instant messages over the internet to your fellow friends on the network.
- You can share photographs with your friends over the network.
- You can use Zorpia to advertise your products. You can ensure that your products reach the Chinese market.
- You can connect with fellow affiliate marketers and potential clients.
- Zorpia has a mobile compatible interface. You can use your smart phone to log in to your Zorpia account.
Disadvantages of Zorpia:
- This is a comparatively new social media network service and has a lot to improve on. Hence, you cannot compare its services with say Facebook.
- It has a smaller customer base. You may be a member, but friend might not have heard about Zorpia.
- Just like any network, there are lots of scammers especially women who immediately request you to send them money once you are connected. Request a video call before you commit yourself to any date.
How do you sign up for Zorpia?
This is a simple procedure. You have to visit the official site and complete a few formalities. There is an option to sign in using a Facebook account also (NOT RECOMMENDED).
I will explain the reason subsequently in this article. Once you become a member, you can utilize all the benefits of using Zorpia.
What can you do on Zorpia?
- You have an option of making new friends and catching up with your old friends too.
- You can use the site as a dating website and find a perfect match for yourself.
- You can create your own profile and share it with the public over Zorpia.
- You can socialize, share news, views, and photographs as well.
Zorpia private message spam.
There are complaints that Zorpia asks for permission to access to your Facebook account. Once you allow it access, it sends private messages to ALL your contacts inviting them to sign up. You obviously do not want your boss to receive an invitation to a dating site…. Duh!
There are even reports that closing the account may not remedy the situation. There is a suggestion that if you receive the ‘private message’, open it and scroll down to the bottom. Click on ‘Block future invitations' and follow instructions. I hope it works.
It is therefore not recommended to sign into Zorpia using your Facebook account or your main email address. l personally created a new account just for the purposes of creating my account.
How to delete Zorpia account permanently.
Due to the said phishing mails, most people consider deleting the account altogether. This how to delete Zorpia account according to their support. Just open the link above and click on the ‘Account Termination’ link on the page. Log into your account and follow the instructions.
Hopefully, your account will be deleted and you will stop receiving Zorpia spam messages.
This is what Zorpia is all about folks.
Zorpia is a site very similar to Facebook. The advantage that Zorpia has over Facebook is that it has a presence in the Peoples Republic of China. Facebook cannot enter China. Zorpia is still in its nascent stage and has to cover a lot of ground before being spoken of in the same breath as its cousin, Facebook.
Share your Zorpia experience below and help others avoid being baited.
Zorpia is a scam that will send bogus messages to your contact. DO NOT sign up
Thanks Jim for the heads up. l hope others will avoid the having spam messages being send to their loved ones. At least, one must use a new email as a precaution.
Facebook is one word, not two. Every time I see it as two in this article, it's nails on a chalkboard. Like if you spelled Apple with one "p" or something. Please fix.
Thanks Justin for the heads up. Used a find ‘Face Book’ and replace with ‘Facebook’. l hope it fixed the problem… no more goose bumps. You rock!
As the author basically stated in the article, it is NOT a scam. At least not any more than any other website or app that asks you to sign up through Facebook!
Most of these also say that if you join, they have the permission to access your contact information.
And guess what ANY of them are going to do with that information? They are going to advertise their services to your friends. Nothing new or different (not that it is very desirable).
Thanks Scott for the heads up. When joining such platforms people must make sure they reject some of the requests such as ‘Zorpia will post content on your behalf’, ‘access to your contact list’ etc.
hey ,i reach in my e-mail box a message ,that say me ,that i have win 1,500,000,00$,from users of zorpia and will send me this amount by ATM CARD form ,is true this fact yes or no ,i would like an official respond,waiting
Sorry l don’t own Zorpia so l can not give you an ‘official response’. However, in my opinion that is obviously a scam and soon you are going to be told to pay them money for bank charges and many other charges. Once you send the money, that’s the end of it. Just delete the email and forget about it. If you respond, they know you are intrested and they will send more spam messages.
Zorpia IS a scam/spam site. I’ve been getting e-mails for a long time, not knowing who they were and NEVER signing up for anything (35 years in IT myself).
Someone named “Vijaykishor” is now inundating me with spam, and looking at the link without clicking it is obvious it is an automatic sign-up page that immediately gets you deeper into the pit of this Chinese Satan.
AVOID IT
Iam Younis from Pakistan received same massage from Zorpia.com and asked me to contract with Zorpia promotion,I contacted with Zorpia. com to know that is this massage of winning of prize15,000,00 dollarsis correct or scam Zorpia.com reply that it is a true.when I applied for this prize. they demanded 100 doollers for postel charge what I will be do now please guide me Zorpia. com or any other.
Don’t send the money. They steal from you.
hey i received the same notice i want to know this answer as well
Of course you havent won anything! Its a scam. They are criminals.
No matter who contacts you about a winning prize are a scam!
Zorpia has no copetitions with huge winning prizes eighter!
HI, I just got.one of those too. My instincts tell me to not trust it.
This shitty site called Zorpia tricked me into signing up its account by sending me an email that I have a private message from someone I know. What a fucked up way to gather subscribers. I just hope that my contacts don’t get fake invitations from me into Zorpia
I’m sure your contacts will receive emails from Zorpia with a fake “message” from you. Sorry to say. It’s completely messed up, but hey, that’s what scammers do. Lesson learned – make sure you do a Google search on the sender FIRST before opening an email from anyone or any company that seems suspicious.
Thanks for your advice on how to verify email senders.
Hi im curtis from SA. There’s this lady by by Aisha Mohammed 1 or 2. Is she indeed in Uk London? I believe she have accomplices in South Africa robbing people their money. Be careful it seems they are using some Indian woman’s photos.
Just received a message saying a customer left me a message on Zorpia. Thankfully, I googled first!
Thumps up Dhaveshan, you did the right thing.
Well thats a great information you provided.I have terminated my account i knew it would be all Fake and Scam SO i searched for it and got this information
Thanks A Lot
God Bless O:)
You are most welcome. l am glad you found the review useful.
same thing happens to me and thank you guys for the reviews
You are most welcome.
Wish i had Googled before opening anything but dummy me did not. What do i do now.
Contact their customer service center to get your account deleted (support@zorpia.com). All the best.
Regarding Zorpia.
If it looks like a scan, acts like a scam, smells like a scam……..IT IS A SCAM
I keep getting invitations to visit a private message via zorpia from my daughter’s email address. She never signed up for zorpia, nor sent me any messages. She assumed this was some kind of virus. What’s really going on here?
Im getting a message from johnny and coleen they i won 850,000. Dollars are they. TRYING To scam me?
Delete the message and forget about it. They will tell you to send them money to cover the bank charges and that will be the last time you hear from them. Don’t show them that your email is functional by responding to the message, they will send more spam messages.
I recieved the ‘private message’ email. Thanks for this web site.
l am glad if you found the article helpful.
My girlfriend got quite a few emails asking her about what she thinks about this guy or this girl. She got probably 10 emails or so. Then she got an email that called her by name and said she could find her match.
I also received a winning notification and gave me an email is this true also for the samsung lottery and other two and even send me a photo of the credit card how do i know if this is real or not
There is nothing ‘real’ Lozano. What ever method they use you end up being told to send them money to either cover bank charges, processing fees or any other funny explanation.
Every woman that I have contacted, eventually asks for money. Full of scammers, I get a lot of likes and that’s a sign to me that it’s a scam. You are probably talking to a guy when you think it’s a girl.
You are right Ken, you never know who is behind the keyboard.
YUP YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD! ZORPIA IS FULL OF SCAMMERS. FROM GHANA NIGERIA AFRICA RUSSIA UKRAINE, NOT ONE REAL WOMAN ON THAT SITE.
Whao!!!! Thank God I read this post because I got a message to my official mail id stating that Henry has sent a private message to you, I just clicked on that link and asked me to sign up through my Facebook account but since I was in my office I didn’t wanted to login. After reading your post I Just clicked on ‘Block future invitations’ as you had said in your instructions.
Thank you!!! 🙂
You are most welcome Mary.
I want your sleaze bag company to stop emailing me. I am not signing into any account for you to steal any data from me. You can remove me from your system please do it.
Unfortunately for me I must have signed up from one of the message and truth be told, I don’t remember doing it. Now my email inbox is getting loads of emails and I’ve tried to unsubscribe to no avail. They are asking for my password which like I said before I’d forgotten about coz I don’t remember signing up. I’ve trie d the ‘forgot my password’ route but they don’t help you get a new password to unsubscribe. Now I’m stuck!!
I have yet to find an actual real person on this scam site, they do little to stop these scammers because like most sites they make money off of adds so the more people that sign up the more they are likely to get clicks on their advertisements, most profile can be easily found out by going to the following sites.
https://www.tineye.com/
https://www.imageraider.com/
(Reversed picture search)
Another scam sign is if there is a telephone number on the profile which is easy to find with the following sites;
http://fonefinder.net/
http://www.phonevalidator.com/
Most likely it will come back being a Google number &/or another VOIP provider when they can pretty much pick & choose their area code which nine times out of ten will not match where their profile says they are supposedly coming from.
Thank you Dee for your contribution and listing those great websites for sniffing out fake profiles. Cheers.
Greatly appreciate…I only help to read your comment before I was hurt and lost money……I lost $611 and lost the girl of my dream……
Thanks for telling the reverse picture finder. I was seeking that thing but did not know how to search…..
Very helpful and Great information,
we appreciate advise especially coming from a professional.
Thanks again and keep up the great work!
I’ve just received an email stating that I have won $1.5 million dollars from the Zorpia website from West Africa….Are they for real? And they want me to pay postage for the deliver of an ATM Card….Are they for real…There are so many Scams out there…Damien
Zorpia is a good platform to meet people, but too many people take advantage of it and turn Zorpia into a negative place just like others.
I personally have no negative mind toward Zorpia…but I did lost $611 to a girl whom we really like each other, chatted online almost 2 months….and….for some family thing…she had to flew to NIGERIA…..yeah…when I saw that country, I had alert in my mind, but for the time we have invested to each other, I was not very sure she was a real or a fake person….. I bet on the friendship we have built and lend her money.
She gave me a phone call to thank me for helping her out when she was in a serious condition. But later, she had more problem and I could not help her more, she gave me a last phone call to explain things to me,……after that…she stopped talking to me.
I can only say, I had a dream and that dream almost came true with the girl I have been dreaming about, but…..at the end….dream is just a dream…..and I waked up with the sadness in my heart, and lost $611……………