Dating Site Safety: Protect Yourself

Safety is not an extra in online dating: it is the condition for everything else to work. This section covers the three real risks, without exaggerating or downplaying them: the fake profile, the romance scam and the leak of personal data.

We start with recognition. How to check that a person really exists, in ten minutes and three steps. Which warning signs deserve a pause, and which justify stopping immediately. A repeated refusal to take a video call tops that second list.

Then comes the romance scam, whose sequence barely varies: warm contact, fast attachment, geographic distance, then a financial emergency. We set out the most common pretexts and the steps to take once money has already gone. Finally, one part covers protecting your data, including what your photos reveal without you knowing.