Online Dating Scams

Safe Casual Dating is an online dating scam.  It will take your money – lots of it.  Multiple readers have alerted me to this site. The readers met their “dates” on Plenty of Fish and Tinder, and SkipTheGames. It should be noted that the scammers are everywhere, not just these sites.

URLs for Safe Casual Dating

The URL can change, and change often. When a legitimate Internet Service Provider becomes aware of the scam, they shut down the server. Unfortunately, it is a real game of whack-a-mole. Putting up a URL and new website and only takes a few minutes. The scammer just copies the source code from one website to the next. Safe Casual Dating becomes Casual Safe Dating, or Casual Safe Daters and the scammer is back in business.

Here are the URLs:

• selfdatingverified.com

• securedatesonline.com

• easydateverify.com

• privatedaters.com

• meetupsafee.com

• nsasecretsexmate.club

• safedateapps.com/

Safe Casual Dating – 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 Safe Casual Dating. The site advertises as a “free”. The site claims that it will verify that you are safe, for your “date”:

” If you would like to meet This Member then please prove you’re over 18, you’ve never been convicted of Criminal Domestic Violence and that you’re not on the National Sex Offender Registry. It’ll take you 30 seconds, when you’re done you can instantly unlock Her current address! “

Of course that is total BS. The website is a facade; there is no verification.  In the United States, the Department of Justice runs the  National Sex Offender Registry. The only way you can search it is by going to their website https://www.nsopw.gov/.

The DOJ does not do not offer any kind of program interface (API or web service) and state this in their FAQ.

Next you provide a user name, password and an email in the “Free Verification Process.”  Next, you enter your credit card to get verified.

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.

The Safe Casual Dating  Casually Hides the Charges

In this version of the scam, you can get to the charges, if you scroll past the submit button. 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 a webcam site, when you enter your credit card information
• There are charges of $39.99.
• There are bonus offers, to adult sites.
• $120.00 in monthly charges

 

Is Safe Casual Dating Legitimate?

No. It is a complete scam. No verification. No Girl. End of Story.

pkhybm.com – Peace and real Love

In one version of the scam, Safe Casual Dating directs you to a low quality online dating site. pkhybm.com is the registration and billing site, for a white label dating site PeaceAndRealLove.  I am very familiar with this site, I get many inquiries. The short gibberish name provides discreet billing.  Staffordish Limited is the owner – is a shell company in Lefkosia (Nicosia) Cyprus.

Peace and Real Love 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

This podcast is about a similar site

In Depth: ShineLoveOnMe Safe Internet Podcast

 

Who Owns Safe Casual Dating

To find the ownership of a website you look it up by domain (URL). I use cqcounter/whois.
All of the sites are registered anonymously. Anonymous registry in Panama is common among the scam sites.

Registering anonymously is common for these sites.

secureJoinSite.com

SecureJoinSite.com is the final link in the iFrame.  It is a server that handles the registration and assigns the victims to different sites. I do not know the logic of how it picks where to send you, it might be geographically based or it might just be some sort of rotation.  SecureJoinSite.com is registered anonymously.

 

Here is an example of the website

 

Site Tags: selfdatingverified.com,  securedatesonline.com, easydateverify.com, privatedaters.com, meetupsafee.com