They are never quite available to meet
A date is always almost arranged, and then something intervenes — a contract abroad, a hospital, a customs problem. The excuse is never the point; never actually meeting is.
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What we check, and what we do not.
Most dating sites answer this question with a badge and a promise. Here is the actual list, including the parts that are not flattering to us, because you cannot make a sensible decision about meeting a stranger using a page that only tells you the good parts.
What we do
- Keep the site to adults of 18 and over, and close accounts that are not.
- Read reports about profiles and messages, and remove profiles that break the terms.
- Keep your email address and your date of birth off your public profile.
- Give you a way to control who can see you, and to delete your profile yourself.
- Answer a report with a real reply from a real person, at the address on our contact page.
What we do not do
- We do not run criminal record checks. We have no access to them, and a site claiming to have checked its members is usually describing a photo or an email confirmation.
- We do not check identity documents. Nobody has sent us a passport and we have verified nothing.
- We do not interview members or meet them before they join.
- We cannot promise anyone is who they say they are. No dating site can. Treat a profile as a stranger's account of themselves, because that is what it is.
Scams
The patterns worth recognising
Romance fraud is not subtle once you know the shape of it, and it almost always follows the same few steps. None of these on their own proves anything. Two or three together is a reason to stop.
The feeling arrives far too fast
Declarations of love within days, pet names before you have spoken on the phone, a sudden intensity that would be odd in any other relationship. This is the part that is being manufactured.
Money comes into it
A blocked account, a medical bill, a parcel held at customs, a business deal you could share in. Any request for money, gift cards, crypto or your bank details ends the conversation. There is no exception to this.
They move you off the site quickly
Within a few messages they want to talk on WhatsApp, Telegram or email. Sometimes that is genuine impatience. Often it is to get the conversation somewhere it cannot be reported.
The photos look like a catalogue
A handful of professional-looking pictures, no casual snaps, no friends in the background, and a face that does not match the life described. You can search an image by uploading it to your usual search engine.
Their story does not hold still
Small details change: the name of the town, the age of a child, the job. Noticing this is not being suspicious for its own sake — it is the single most reliable signal there is.
If you have already sent money
Tell your bank immediately — a payment made in the last few hours can sometimes still be stopped. In the UK you can report it to Action Fraud, and in the United States to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center. Do not be embarrassed about reporting it. These operations run on exactly that embarrassment.
Before you meet someone
Most people who use dating sites meet most people without any trouble at all. These are the ordinary precautions, not a sign that you expect the worst.
- Speak on the phone or on video first. It takes ten minutes and it settles more than a month of messages.
- Meet somewhere public, in daylight for a first meeting, and arrange your own transport there and back.
- Tell someone where you are going and who you are meeting. Share your location with them if that is easy.
- Stay in control of your own drink, and do not leave it unattended.
- Keep your first meeting short. You are allowed to leave after one drink, and you do not owe anyone an explanation for it.
- Do not lend money, however good the reason is, and however small the amount seems.
Reporting someone on riblinked
Use the contact page. Tell us the profile name and roughly when the conversation happened, and paste in the parts that matter. If someone has threatened you, contact the police first and tell us second — we are not an emergency service and we cannot act as quickly as one.
If something is wrong
- Threat to lifeCall the police
- Money already sentCall your bank
- Report a profileContact us
- Your dataprivacy@riblinked.com
- Anything else+1 718 778 0996
Why this page is so blunt
A safety page that lists only the protections makes you feel safer without making you safer. Knowing that nobody has verified anyone here is uncomfortable, and it is also the information you actually need when you decide whether to meet a stranger. We would rather be the site that told you.