Security and safety

Almost all dates are fun and friendly and our members are equally the same. However, security and safety are very important to us. The following are just some of the areas where we focus our efforts.

AMETRICS System

We have pioneered a new concept for online dating. Our SCAMETRICS rating lets you assess who is genunie and who may be not. Within every profile we display a chart. If members report a profile then the rating is reduced. If our monitoring systems detect erratic usage then the rating is reduced again. When a members reaches 0% they are automatically removed. This open system is ideal for you to make your own judgements on each profile.

System monitoring

Our site has many background system running that you will never know about but they are there for your security. For example, when you open a members profile we read the text with a program and look for patterns that have been used by people that have been deleted for abuse. Offending users have their rating automatically reduced.

We also know which countries have more spammers than others. This is due to local governments not taking cyber crime seriously. For example, some countries in Africa have teams of hackers and spammers working on social networking and dating sites.

Regular users don't even have to think about any of this, which is how it should be. You swap messages and go on dates and we look after all the code and software to make the experience the best it can be.

Encrypted URLS

This one is a bit complex to explain but let's just say it works the same way as your online bank. We make important information that is sent from page to page into a string of random characters, then decode it back later. If you want to know why we do this then read one. We find it quite exciting, but we are computer nerds so we understand if you don't!

Many dating sites don't use encryption and you may have seen this in action. Imagine you're sending a message to another member, you may see in the address bar of your browser something like, sendmessage.html?user=77. This means that you're about to send a message to the user with the ID number of 77. This is no big deal to any normal user but to a spammer this is an open door. They can write their own program to send a message to user 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 all the way to 1,000,000. This is a simple way for them to spam 1,000,000 people with a much higher read rate than normal email. In our system we add a secret codeword into the URL and then encrypt it so it looks something like, sendmessage.html?action=JGG7865GHGHGH7875HGHGHGFGFAQ. The spammer could try and guess the code word but it would take many years to find it. In the mean-time when they make a mistake we record it and any user who has too many mistakes in a set time period is deleted.

Over time the spammers will learn that they are wasting their time and move to another dating sites that are less secure. We believe we are one of the leaders in online dating security and we hope it gives you more confidence to use our site.

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