Can Online Dating Apps Protect You from Romance Scammers?
Romance scams cost billions, online dating apps struggle with solutions. VerifEye offers validation, combating deceit.
By Russ Warner, Marketing –
Romance scams cost billions, online dating apps struggle with solutions. VerifEye offers validation, combating deceit.
Did you know romance scams cost Americans more than $1 billion in 2023? (That’s according to CBSNews.com.) What’s more alarming is that this billion-dollar number doesn’t represent the entire cost—many cases go unreported.
What’s the problem?
Online dating apps have turned into a happy hunting ground for romance scammers and there is no end in sight. The CBSNews.com article mentions Online dating apps such as Match Group spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year trying to eradicate the bad actors from their apps, but the challenge persists.
What is being done?
CBSNews.com indicates that Match Group—which operates dating apps such as Tinder, The League, and Hinge—scans customer profiles daily for language or images that are suspect. Many fake profiles are removed daily. But this method is lacking in something because scams continue to bilk the romantics in search of a soul mate.
In addition, even if online dating apps provide customers with information from public records, such as police reports, court orders, etc. it doesn’t cover the perps who have never been caught or those who have a criminal record who disguise their real identity.
What about the white lies?
Scanning for suspicious images or language may be good, but that technology does not validate claims on legitimate profiles made by real people who lie about their divorce, age, income, occupation, education, shoe size, etc. What would you think after connecting online and then meeting someone who isn’t divorced, just yet?
What’s the Solution?
In addition to the tactics mentioned, there’s another solution just released to the market that can shed light on the false claims made by real people who tell a few simple untruths.
VerifEye is a new app by Converus, makers of EyeDetect—the best lie detector—that verifies the truth with questions such as “Did you lie about any personal details you provided in your dating profile?
Customers can take the simple test on an iPhone or Android phone and, in about 10 minutes, the truth will be told with 80% accuracy, which is similar to the best lie detectors available today: EyeDetect and polygraph.
Even better, let dating app customers get their profiles “validated” as a truth indicator for others to see. Then, the dating profile can carry that badge of honor for others to swipe at.
