Safety centre

Trust your instincts. Keep control of the pace.

Verification can reduce risk, but no badge guarantees someone’s intentions. These practical steps help protect your information, money and personal safety.

Recognise the warning signs

Romance scams often build slowly

A fraudster may create intense trust before introducing an emergency, investment, travel problem or request for money.

Protect your money

Never send money, gift cards, cryptocurrency, bank details or identity documents to someone you met through dating.

Stay on the platform

Be cautious if someone pressures you to move immediately to private email or encrypted messaging where moderation cannot help.

Check the story

Look for changing details, dramatic urgency, refusal to video call, copied language or photographs that appear elsewhere online.

If you have sent moneyContact your bank immediately. Save messages and transaction records. Report suspected fraud through Action Fraud or the police service appropriate to where you live.

Adults only

MeetSomeoneReal.com is for people aged 18 and over

Anyone under 18 is not permitted to register, create a profile, message members or attend an event. Date-of-birth checks in this preview are only the first layer; the production service must use an approved, privacy-preserving age-assurance process before access is granted.

If you believe a member may be under 18, stop contact and report the profile. Do not investigate or request identity documents yourself.

Report a suspected under-18 account

How the production service must respond

  • Restrict the reported account while the concern is reviewed
  • Use trained staff and an approved age-assurance provider
  • Collect only the minimum information needed
  • Provide a human review route for incorrect decisions
  • Escalate child-safety risks under the approved safeguarding process

Meeting in person

Make the first plan yours

  • Meet in a busy public place
  • Tell a trusted person where you are going
  • Arrange your own transport both ways
  • Keep your phone charged and accessible
  • Do not leave food or drinks unattended
  • Leave whenever you feel uncomfortable

Use a check-in plan

Share the name, profile and venue with someone you trust. Agree a check-in time and a simple phrase that means you want help leaving.

Call 999 if you or someone else is in immediate danger.

Report or block

You do not need to confront someone

Production profiles and conversations will include visible report and block controls. The reported member will not be told who submitted a report.

Reporting categories

  • Harassment, threats or hate
  • Suspected scam or request for money
  • Impersonation or misleading identity
  • Sexual content or non-consensual images
  • Underage user or child-safety concern
  • Offline safety incident
Email a safety report

What happens next

  1. The report is acknowledged and triaged by severity.
  2. Immediate risks are escalated and relevant access may be restricted.
  3. A trained moderator reviews available evidence under the published policy.
  4. The reporter receives an outcome where privacy and safety allow.
  5. Appeals and complaints follow a documented route.

The support mailbox, response targets, evidence retention and escalation contacts must be operational before launch.

Platform protections

Safety is an operating system, not a badge

The production service requires rate limiting, server-side validation, content moderation, secure uploads, audit logs, restricted staff access, anti-spam controls and documented incident response. AI can flag risk for review but must not make unsupported safety promises.