Discreet Dating Affirmation is an online dating scam.  It is one of the highest risk sites that I have come across in my investigations.  I will explain why it is so high risk shortly.

Update:  The site has renamed itself to Guarantee Date,

Because multiple readers have alerted me to this site, I thought a specific article was needed.  The readers who contacted met their “dates” on Plenty of Fish and Tinder.  It should be noted that the scammers are everywhere, not just these sites.

What I found, is that Discreet Dating Affirmation completely hides that you are really signing up for a low-quality online dating site, run by a person from Cyprus.  More on that shortly.

URL: makeanaccount.com/vipmember/33e.html

Makeanaccount.com looks like a generic launching platform for just about anything.

Discreet Dating Affirmation URL Variations:

The URL can change, and change often.  When a legitimate Internet Service Provider is made aware of the scam, they will shut down the hosting account.  Unfortunately, it only takes a few minutes to get a new URL and put up a new website – they just copy the program code from one website to the next.   Here are a few of the URL variations, I am sure there are more:

• makeanaccount.com/vipaccess/33i.html
• makeanaccount.com/freemember/33c.html
• makeanaccount.com/freemember/65c.html
• makeanaccount.com/secured/23bc.html

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Discreet Dating Affirmation & Guarantee Date – How the Scam Works

You meet someone online, and they express interest in you. They tell you they want to meet in person, but first you must verify to prove you are “safe” or something along those lines.

Your “date” sends you a link to Discreet Dating Affirmation. The site is advertised as a “free”.  The site claims that it will record an appointment for your date, and send help if needed.  Here is part of what it says, poor grammer and all:

“Our site work by simply setting a appointment booking to both member in one location, we record the Time, Date, And location of the meet up so if anything bad happen with the meet up, we can easily send personnel to help and secured those person.”

Of course that is total BS.  The website is a facade;  there is no appointment booking, and no personnel to help.

Next you are asked to create a user name, password and provide an email in the “Free Verification Process”

Next, you are asked to enter your credit card to sign up for the service, and it shows you a free option.

Where you really are:

Thru use of a programming command called iFrame, you and your credit card are really at a different website.  The iFrame creates a window in the site you see, to a website that you do not see.  Therefore, the iFrame command directs your credit card to a different site, without you knowing.

Guarantee Date and Discreet Dating Affirmation Charges are Deliberately Hidden

I followed the iFrame link in the source code.  After entering a user name and email, you get to a credit card entry.  What you find is:

• You are really at shnvme.com when you enter  your credit card information
• There are charges of $39.99.  It doesn’t say it, but that is a per month charge according to the Terms of Use.

This short video (2:30) shows exactly how Discreet Dating Affirmation works, and hides the charges.  It is the second site in the video.

 

If you don’t want to watch the video, but would like to see the proof, here is a picture sequence of Discreet Dating Affirmation. 

joinsafelyonline and shnvme.com

Joinsafelyonline.com is the link in the iFrame.  JoinSafelyOnline is registered anonymously in Panama.  It is a marketing aggregator server that sends the victims to different sites.  I do not know the logic of how it picks where to send you, it might be geographically based.  When I change my proxy (where I enter the internet) JoinSafelyOnline changes the site.

Joinsafelyonline.com directed me to shnvme.com when I investigated Discreet Dating Affirmation.  Shnvme.com seems to be the most common landing site.

Shnvme.com is the registration and billing site, for a white label dating site ShineLoveOnMe.com.  I am very familiar with this site, I get many inquiries.   The short gibberish name is used for discreet billing purposes.   ShineLoveOnMe is a low-quality white label dating site. Staffordish Limited. is the owner of ShineLoveOn me.  Staffordish is a shell company in Lefkosia (Nicosia) Cyprus.

Shine is a low quality site because it uses “Website Hosts.”  “Hosts” are fake profiles used to “stimulate conversation” and monitor activity on the site.  Here are the important parts of the Terms of Use:

• Hosts’ profiles do not pertain to any actual person …
• …no physical meeting will never take place between Members and our Hosts

In Depth:  ShineLoveOnMe Safe Internet Podcast

Who Owns Discreet Dating Affirmation & Guarantee Date

To find the ownership of a website you look it up by domain (URL).  I use cqcounter/whois. The domain is  makeanaccount.com.  Here is what I found

• The site is hosted by SpaceNet in Singapore
• The owner (Registrant) is in Bulacan, Philippines, but the Registrant name has been left blank

Registering anonymously is common for these sites.  This partial anonymity is something I have not seen before.

High Risk Alert

You doubt found this website, because someone sent you to the Discreet Dating Affirmations / Makeanaccount.com website.  Therefore  it means that you were interacting with a scammer based in the Philippines.    The Philippines is home to sextortion gangs.  When the the scammer meets you online, they quickly escalate to intimacy and sharing nude pictures.  If you reciprocate, they got you.    This will be followed up by a demand for money, or they will post your naked pics on social media, telling all your friends and family.   Here are a few examples:

From the BBC – Sextortion: Big rise in victims with ‘tens of thousands at risk’

From Marketwatch – I was Humiliated – online dating scammers hold nude photos for ransom

Is Discreet Dating Affirmations or Guarantee Date Legitimate?

No. It is a complete scam.

Here is the in-depth look at the Verification Scam