Online Dating Safety

$19.00

Dating well and staying safe turn out to be the same skill.

It’s for the evening you match with someone you like and your routine is already running: the details you don’t put in a profile, the four-minute check you do on everybody, the friend who knows where you’ll be. None of it feels like suspicion, because you do it every time.

Part One takes one evening and protects you across every app and every match from then on. Part Two is the conversation, including a reverse image search and a live video call that between them end nearly every fake. Part Three is the meeting, kept deliberately boring so the routine never reads as an accusation about one person. Part Four is money, and what to do if something has already happened.

Romance fraud is run by organized operations with scripts, shift patterns and training manuals. The people it works on are not naive. They are warm and trusting and looking for something real, which is exactly what the script was written for.

So the rule is about behavior rather than judgment. You never have to decide whether somebody is lying. You only have to keep the same routine with everyone, which costs nothing with honest people and is the whole obstacle for dishonest ones.

24 pages. PDF. Instant download. No login required.

Dating well and staying safe turn out to be the same skill.

It’s for the evening you match with someone you like and your routine is already running: the details you don’t put in a profile, the four-minute check you do on everybody, the friend who knows where you’ll be. None of it feels like suspicion, because you do it every time.

Part One takes one evening and protects you across every app and every match from then on. Part Two is the conversation, including a reverse image search and a live video call that between them end nearly every fake. Part Three is the meeting, kept deliberately boring so the routine never reads as an accusation about one person. Part Four is money, and what to do if something has already happened.

Romance fraud is run by organized operations with scripts, shift patterns and training manuals. The people it works on are not naive. They are warm and trusting and looking for something real, which is exactly what the script was written for.

So the rule is about behavior rather than judgment. You never have to decide whether somebody is lying. You only have to keep the same routine with everyone, which costs nothing with honest people and is the whole obstacle for dishonest ones.

24 pages. PDF. Instant download. No login required.

What’s inside

Four parts, in the order things happen.

Your profile, the conversation, the meeting, and money. Part One is a one-time setup. Everything after it is a routine you keep with everyone, which is what makes it work.

Part One

Your Profile

What you are giving away without meaning to, a separate email and phone number, and the photo and detail hygiene that protects you across every app at once.

Part Two

Before You Meet

A reverse image search and a live video call. Four minutes between them, and they end nearly every fake.

Part Three

Meeting Safely

A meeting plan, public places, your own transport, and a friend who knows where you are. The same routine every time, so it never feels personal.

Part Four

Money & After

The scripts romance fraud uses, why they work on warm and trusting people, and what to do today if you have already sent money or photographs.

Also included

The four separate risks and the habit that covers each one · why the people this works on are not naive · what to do if you are being threatened · and the page to skip straight to if something has already happened.

Before you buy

Questions

Is this for a particular age group?

No. It is written for anyone meeting people online, newly single, long-time single, widowed or divorced, at any age. The scams aim hardest at people in transition, and being in transition is not a weakness.

Something has already happened. Is it too late?

No, and Part Four is written for exactly that. It tells you what to do today, in what order, whether you have sent money, sent photographs you regret, or are being threatened.

Will this make dating feel paranoid?

It shouldn’t, and that is the point of running the same routine with everybody. A routine costs nothing with an honest person, so you never have to make an accusation about anyone in particular.

What do I get, and how?

A PDF, delivered the moment you pay. The link appears on screen and arrives by email as well. No account, no login, no app, and the file is yours to keep and print.

Can I get a refund?

Digital downloads are final sale. Once the file has been delivered there’s no way to return it, and this is a small business protecting work that took thousands of hours to make. If your download doesn’t arrive, or the file won’t open, reply to your receipt and we’ll sort it out. And if you read the whole thing and think it was worthless, write and tell us. That sits outside our policy and we don’t make a habit of it, but we’re not going to argue with you about a PDF.