Learn more about online dating safety. Follow these guidelines.

  • Do not disclose your password to anyone, and make sure you can easily remember it.
  • When communicating with another user, make sure you take note of suspicious behaviors and be very careful of anyone who asks you for money.
  • Your contact details should not be on your profile, for example, your email address, office or house address, telephone number, and even your last name.
  • Using our messaging feature allows you to communicate anonymously without disclosing your details to the other person. Nevertheless, if after chatting with someone, you feel like sharing your personal information with that individual, that's okay. if your instinct tells you that you can trust him or her.
Stay Away From Trouble
  • If at any point you feel unsafe or uncomfortable with someone who appears to be too good to be true, your instinct may be right, do not share personal information with him or her. Though 98% of our members are genuine but always look out for 2% of fake profiles.
  • If you do not trust the way and manner someone is asking for money and feel like reporting the person, just click the "Report" button found on that individual's profile or contact our support team immediately.
  • We used to update the profile of members in the VIP categories, but this change will be shown on the member's profile. However, this does not guarantee that the person's details are 100% accurate because scammers use fake pictures from the internet and upload them as if it's theirs. Even if the details provided by the person are correct, it does not mean that this individual is the kind of person he or she portrays to be.
  • We do not have the mechanism to authenticate the validity and genuineness of every member. Nevertheless, we ensure that every suspicious member is removed from the site. Again, this is not a 100% guarantee that every member is trustworthy, that is why you should be aware when relating with members so that you can make friends and communicate with genuine ones. 98% of our members are genuine.
  • Don't ever send money to anyone you have not come in contact with one-on-one. It is a risky game to send someone you met online money.

Before You Meet

  • Before you meet anybody one-on-one, make sure you have thoroughly investigated the person through intelligent conversations that would enable you to detect when the person is not telling the truth. Message the person, chat, and email him or her for some time to know the person better, and reveal your phone number or personal details only when you are comfortable with the person.
  • Another important thing you should do before meeting with the individual is to make sure the person provides you with his or her pictures taken at different locations and different periods of their life. This will enable you to know the authenticity of the individual and what the person looks like.

OFFLINE DATING
Take the following precautions when dating offline.

  • Meet In A Public Place: Always meet with the other person in a public environment, to reduce the possibility of being in a harmful situation. This is also important as people seeing both of you will testify to seeing you there in case something bad happens.
  • Tell Someone About It: Do not just go out on a date without telling a friend or a relative where you are going, when you plan to come back, and means to communicate with you.
  • Go With A Friend: In some situations, you should go with a friend, especially when you are not familiar with the place you are going to. This will improve your safety.
  • Use Your Transportation; It is not good to depend on your partner for transportation. Therefore, make sure you go in your car or public taxi. In this way, the person will not know where you live nor would you depend on the person to go back home.
  • Don't Leave Your Drink Or Food Unattended: You may have heard of ‘date rape drugs,' these are drugs that may be put into your drink or food without you noticing it. After drinking or eating, you become unconscious, and the person would then take advantage of you. Therefore, never accept food or drink that is not prepared or opened in your presence.
  • Limit Your Alcohol Intake: Avoid taking alcohol, especially on your first date, as it will weaken your sense of judgment and make you do some silly things or make decisions that you may later regret when it clears off your eyes.
  • Go With Extra Money: Always go with extra cash that can pay your bills. This also means that you should not consume more than you can pay. The reason for this is that at times the date may go wrong, and when it does, you can easily pay your bills and then board the taxi without waiting for your date.
  • Another Defense Mechanism: You must arm yourself with mace or pepper spray in case your date becomes grabby or tries to harm you.

GENERAL ADVICE

  1. Do not enter into a relationship hastily, take your time to know the person better at your own pace and convenience.
  2. If the person you are dating is from a foreign land, take some time to understand the person's culture, and to know what the person expects from the relationship. Don't just depend on instant messages; spend quality time with the individual to know him or her better.
  3. Make sure you know the person to an extent before the relationship gets serious, to avoid regret in the future.

SPAM AND SCAM

  • Spam refers to receiving bulk messages that you did not subscribe to, especially those that have to do with advertising. If someone you meet on InterracialSingles Club spams you, stop contact with that person and report the message as inappropriate, using our reporting system.
  • Scam on the other hand refers to defrauding someone after securing the person’s confidence. This is done by exploiting some aspects of the human psyche such as vanity, credulity, honesty, greed, irresponsibility, compassion, etcetera. Scamming can take place in various ways in online dating. For instance, a scammer may put up a fake profile detail and photo to defraud other members after gaining the member’s trust. Sometimes a scammer may impersonate you and use your identity to collect money from other members. We are trying all that we can to make sure we investigate the authenticity of every member's profile on our site. Notwithstanding, by means of fake profile details or downloaded online pictures, scammers still find ways to slip through. There is a golden rule you should always adhere to if you do not want to be scammed, and that is ‘DO NOT EVER SEND MONEY TO SOMEONE YOU HAVE ONLY MET ONLINE.

BEFORE YOU BECOME ENGAGED

  • Every year we get thousands of testimonies of people who got married through our professional services, and they are living together and happily. Before you accept any engagement, make sure you have thought about the things that could go wrong and make a decision whether you should accept the engagement or not.
  • Marriage is not something that should be rushed into. Ensure that you have done proper investigations and know your partner before getting engaged. Also, make sure you know your partner's family and friends.
  • In case the person you are engaged to is not from your country, it is advisable to know your partner's country's laws regarding domestic violence, divorce or abuse, and other legislation that apply to a married couple. This will enable you to know whether it is something you should go into or not.
  • You should also understand what the law says about a couple that has divorced. If you would have the right to properties and right to remain in the country, etcetera.

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