Dating Safety & Anti-Scam Policy

Every member of BeyondSwipe has proven their identity with a genuine government document and a live biometric selfie match. That makes this a significantly harder place to run a scam than a platform anyone can join with an email address.

It does not make you safe. Verification confirms who someone is. It says nothing about their character, their honesty, their relationship status, or their intentions, and we do not run criminal background checks. A verified person can still lie, manipulate, or cause harm. Please read the rest of this page as though verification did not exist. See How verification works for the full detail.

• Talk on the platform first. Be cautious with anyone who wants to move to WhatsApp, Telegram or email within minutes. Moving you off-platform removes our ability to see, investigate, or act on their behaviour, which is often exactly the point.
• Video chat before meeting. A short live video call resolves an enormous number of doubts. Someone who always has a broken camera is telling you something.
• Do your own search. Look up their name and photos independently. Reverse image search is free and fast.
• Tell someone. Share who you are meeting, where, and when, with a friend or family member. Our in-app Date Safety Check-In can send those details to someone you trust.
• Keep personal details back. Your home address, workplace, financial details, and documents are not first-date information. Neither is your daily routine.

• Meet in public, the first several times. A busy café, restaurant or bar. Not their home, not yours, not an isolated location.
• Arrange your own travel, both ways. Do not be collected from your home, and do not be dependent on them for a lift back.
• Mind your drink. Order it yourself, watch it being poured, and do not leave it unattended. Drink spiking is real and it is not rare.
• Stay in control of your phone and money. Keep your phone charged and your own means of payment on you.
• Leave whenever you want. You owe no one an explanation, an apology, or a completed evening. Discomfort is reason enough.
• Travelling to meet someone? Book your own accommodation, keep your own documents, and make sure someone at home knows your itinerary.

Never send money, cryptocurrency, gift cards, or financial information to someone you have met on a dating app. There is no exception to this rule that is worth the risk.

Romance fraud works by building genuine emotional attachment first and introducing money later, often weeks or months later, at the point where refusing feels like a betrayal of someone you care about. The request will always be urgent, sympathetic, and just about plausible. That is the design.

Treat every one of these as fraud until proven otherwise:

• A medical emergency, hospital bill, or sick relative
• Being stranded abroad, or needing a flight or visa fee to visit you
• Customs, tax, or a fee to release a package or an inheritance
• An investment opportunity, trading platform, or crypto tip, however well it appears to be performing
• A temporary cash-flow problem, frozen account, or lost wallet
• A request to receive or forward money or parcels on their behalf (this can make you a money mule, which is a criminal offence)
• Any request for your banking details, card numbers, one-time passcodes, or ID documents

BeyondSwipe will never ask you for your password, a one-time code, your card number, or a payment sent outside the app. Any message claiming to be from us that does so is fraudulent, report it.

• The romance scam. Intense affection very early, constant contact, talk of a future together, and eventually, a crisis that money would solve.
• The investment scam. They are doing well at trading and want to help you do the same. The platform they direct you to shows healthy returns. Withdrawals work at first, for small amounts. They stop working when the amount is large.
• Sextortion. Intimate images are solicited, then used to demand money under threat of sending them to your family, employer, or contacts. See section 7. There is a way through this.
• Phishing and malware.A link to a “photo album”, a verification site, or a video call app that asks you to log in or install something. Credentials or device access are the real target.
• The verification scam.They ask you to verify yourself on an external “dating safety” site, which takes your card details. Verification on BeyondSwipe happens only inside our own signup flow, once, and never at another member's request.
• The premium-line or bogus-prize scam. You are asked to call, text, or claim something that carries a charge.
• Commercial solicitation. Profiles that exist to advertise services, drive traffic to paid content, or recruit you into a scheme. These are removed on sight.

• Love bombing. Overwhelming affection and future-planning within days, before you could reasonably know each other.
• Manufactured urgency. Every request must be resolved right now, leaving no time to think or check.
• Isolation. Encouraging secrecy, or suggesting your friends and family will not understand.
• Guilt and reciprocity. Framing a refusal as proof you do not care, or invoking gifts and attention already given.
• Testing the water. A small request first. A top-up, a small transfer, to establish the pattern before the large one arrives.

If a conversation makes you feel rushed, guilty, or secretive about money, stop and talk to someone you trust before doing anything else.

Sharing intimate images always carries risk, because you cannot control what happens to them next. Be especially wary of anyone who pushes for them early or persistently.

If you are being threatened, you are not the one in trouble, and you are not alone. Do not pay. Paying almost never ends the demand. It confirms you will pay again. Stop responding, keep the evidence, block them, and report it to us immediately.

Sharing or threatening to share intimate images without consent, including AI-generated or altered images, is strictly prohibited on BeyondSwipe and is a criminal offence in many jurisdictions. Report it to us at safety@beyondswipe.app and we will act urgently, remove the content, permanently remove the account, and preserve evidence for law enforcement.

If you are under 18, or the images involve anyone under 18, contact local police immediately. In Canada you can also report to Cybertip.ca. We report child sexual abuse material to the authorities without exception.

Consent is freely given, specific, informed, and can be withdrawn at any moment, including after it was given, and including partway through. Matching with someone, talking to them for months, accepting a date, or going home with someone are not consent to anything else.

Pressure, persistence, intoxication, and threats invalidate consent. Sexual activity without consent is sexual assault. If this has happened to you, it was not your fault, and reporting it to police is your right regardless of how you met.

So that reports reach the people who genuinely need help, it is worth being clear about what we cannot act on. The following are disappointing, but they are not fraud or policy breaches:

• Someone stops replying, unmatches, or loses interest
• Someone is less attractive, older-looking, or shorter than their photos suggested
• A date goes badly, or the other person is dull, rude or late
• Someone declines to meet, to video call, or to continue dating you
• Someone was dating other people at the same time
• A disagreement about who paid for dinner

Deliberately false reports are themselves a breach of our Community Guidelines, because they cause real harm to innocent members and consume resources needed elsewhere.

Report from any profile or conversation using the report option, or email safety@beyondswipe.app. Blocking someone immediately stops all contact.

Helpful evidence includes:

• Their profile name and a link or screenshot of the profile
• Screenshots of the relevant messages, with dates visible
• Any external links, wallet addresses, phone numbers or bank details they used
• What happened, in your own words, and whether money was sent

Reports are confidential. We do not tell the reported person who reported them. We review every report, and may warn, restrict, suspend or permanently remove an account. Because removal here is tied to a verified identity, a permanent ban is considerably harder to evade than on most platforms.

If you have lost money, report it to your bank immediately, speed matters, and to your national fraud body. In Canada, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. In an emergency, or if you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.

We verify every member's identity, screen uploaded images automatically for adult content and for child sexual abuse material, review reports, and remove accounts that breach our rules. We cooperate with law enforcement acting through proper legal process.

We cannot supervise private conversations in real time, we cannot vouch for anyone's character or intentions, we do not conduct criminal background checks, and we have no control over what happens once you meet someone offline. BeyondSwipe is not responsible for the conduct of its members, and nothing on this page is a promise of safety. Your own judgement remains your best protection, and you should never act against it because someone has a verified badge.

Safety concerns: safety@beyondswipe.app
General support: support@beyondswipe.app

BeyondSwipe is operated by 15748666 Canada Inc. This policy forms part of our Terms of Service and should be read with our Community Guidelines.