Why identity verification is the first thing on this page
Romance fraud concentrates on people over fifty, and it works through a fabricated identity sustained over weeks. RealMe attacks that at the root: a government ID, a liveness selfie and a verification video are checked together, and verification is required before anyone can message you rather than offered as a badge some members have. The person in the conversation is the person in the photographs. That is the specific claim, and it is the one worth making.
Safety Profiles that say what has not been checked
A Safety Profile shows what has been verified. Just as importantly, it shows what has not — because a missing check presented as a clean result is worse than no check at all. Background check availability depends on the market, on the provider and always on consent, so a profile in one country may carry a check that is simply not offered in another. Where it has not been completed, it says so.
- Identity verification required before anyone can message you
- An uncompleted check reported as uncompleted, never implied as a pass
- Platform monitoring for the message patterns financial fraud actually uses
- Every report read by a person; blocking effective immediately
Companionship, marriage, or neither, stated plainly
What you are looking for after fifty varies enormously and is nobody's business to assume. Companionship, a serious relationship, marriage, or working out what you want after a long time not thinking about it — all of these are statable, and stating one saves the conversation where two people turn out to have meant different things by the same word.
The one rule no product can enforce for you
Never send money to someone you have not met in person. Not for a flight, not for a medical emergency, not for a customs fee, not as a loan to be repaid when the contract clears. Every variation of this story is a script, and the scripts are good. The guide on recognising romance scam patterns sets out what they look like and what to do if money has already changed hands.