Security & Safety Facts
Never give money or personal information to strangers.
This is a hard and fast rule.
No matter how many times you've met in the chatroom, these are strangers to you. Break this rule at your own risk. Our advice is that you
never use your real name, or real information such as address,
phone numbers, personal email, IM, or any other information,
until you know someone really well. Keep your identity
such as location, name of business where you work, family
member’s names, all pretty much under wraps, until
you're assured this person is not a threat. Then after your real, live “Meet & Greet”, do
a thorough inspection of this other person’s life
as well as you can, given their own reasonable initial
hesitations with your examination.
On the Internet, be as careful as you are in person.
Don’t get emotionally attached until you really
KNOW this new romantic interest!
How then, you ask, to “get to know” someone,
with no information that’s “truly personal” contact?
Start with writing some serious letters to discuss where
you “match” in your understanding of God in
your FSS profile. Your email can be “temporary” to use as a filter: this can be done by keeping email that is "disposable", such as Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail, and others. They're free. Using an address outside your normal email is a good way
to get to know new romantic interests and friends more slowly, at your leisure. They
don’t know your “real email address” where
you do business and if someone wants to write you there but later,
they want to abuse it, you won’t care (except to
report them to Blessed Dates please!) Then slowly get to know the
person well, check references, and such.
We’d say more, but that’s the bottom line.
These are strangers, just like you’d meet on the
street. Never forget that. Don’t be getting emotionally
involved unless you’ve met IN PERSON, up close and
personal. Be JUST as careful – or more – because
criminals use the anonymity of the Internet to keep you
guessing before they pounce. We do our best to catch them all, but it’s
impossible for any site to be perfect. So you must be aware,
and cautious, like you would be in the rest of the world.
And, of course, report anyone suspicious. We can’t
emphasize that enough.
Blessed Dates has the highest security standards of any dating site on the Internet today.
We put a lot of effort into protecting our members.
We just talked about some aspects of security, and you
might have noticed that we are very tough on safety too.
If you have any experience on the Internet, you know why.
From our own experience, warnings of real and possible
dangers are precisely what are missing elsewhere on the
Internet dating websites. So we’re setting a new
standard. How we see it, we’re protecting our brothers
and sisters in Christ – all of us – as we are the Children
of God. So, make no mistake; we’re very serious about
who joins, and, how they behave and treat others.
Case in point. As you may notice as you join – not
just anybody can enter this website. It would be great
if everybody were as passionate about Christ as you are.
But that isn’t the case. There are requirements, like the Bible test, and real email addresses.
That is for your safety, as a member. It severely cuts
down the number of people who come to these websites to
take advantage of others, because they’re being watched,
and, they know it. If you’re here to cause trouble,
you don’t want a phone call or a personal email.
Add that to the fact that merely getting into Blessed Dates
takes effort – and we find that most who want to
come for the wrong reasons, don’t want to take the
time or effort, because they weren’t serious in the
first place about marriage and they prefer not to have
to work this hard to commit crime.
We depend on you, however, to notice things that don’t
look right to you. Realize, that is suspicious all by itself:
empty profiles. Unless the person hooked up with someone
right away or off the website, that’s a red flag.
Creating an extensive profile is an investment most criminals
and players aren’t willing to make.
So! Please, do your part as a Blessed Dates member. Make
a good profile, be yourself, and don’t take chances.
If you’ve got a question about another member – let’s
say you don’t believe their story, you catch them
in a major lie (age, for example), or they have been asking
you for favors, money, etc. – please check with us. Other examples are: if you suspect somebody
is here for any soliticiting or criminal purposes, is already married, has lied
on their profile purposely, misstated facts, used false
pictures, then you need to report it to us, please. You
may do that at 1-877-365-LORD.
WE WILL PROSECUTE ANYONE WHO ATTEMPTS TO HARM, INJURE,
DEFRAUD, OR IN ANY WAY STALK OR HARRASS OUR MEMBERS, TO
THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.
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