Online dating apps such as Tinder, Bumble, Match, eHarmony and Zoosk take the traditional matchmaking process online and allow people to meet one another via the internet, with many encounters leading to long-term relationships.
The vast majority of people using online dating sites are sincere and honest in the information they provide and in their reasons for joining. However, there are exceptions, and you need to be aware of how to keep yourself protected while meeting people online.
Date Protect App helps you stay connected to your friends and family while meeting new people. You simply upload a photo of the person you are meeting with and specify the location you will be at and let your contacts know where you will be so they can check up on you.
Several Risks Of Online Dating:
- Personal safety when meeting someone in person who you met online.
- Stalking and harassment.
- Fraud, when people appeal appeal to your better nature to help them out of an unfortunate situation by sending money.
- People masquerading as somebody who they are not.
- Spam, selling or fraud, especially romance fraud.
- Webcam blackmail, where fraudsters record things you may do in front of your webcam then use the recording to extort money.
- Phishing emails claiming to be from an online dating site and encouraging you to divulge personal information.
- Being defrauded by using websites posing as authentic dating sites.