Staying Safe

Meeting for marriage rests on trust. That is exactly why fraudsters use it.

Below is what is worth knowing before the first conversation.

Money

Do not send money to someone you met online. The reasons given are

familiar: an urgent operation, stuck on the road, a blocked card, money for a

ticket, an investment with guaranteed returns. None of them justifies it.

A request for money at any stage is sufficient grounds to stop talking and

tell us.

Do not send photographs of your passport, bank cards or verification codes

from messages. A request for any of these is a major warning sign.

Fraudsters hurry you. Being pushed into another messenger within minutes,

pressed for a quick decision, or played on emotionally are all warning

signs.

Pressure to move unusually fast is itself worth pausing over, whatever the

stated reason.

For a sister, the involvement of a wali or a relative is not a formality

but a protection. Tell your family about the acquaintance from the start,

not when things have gone far.

Meet for the first time only in a public place, preferably during daylight

hours. Tell those close to you where you are going and with whom. Do not get

into a stranger's car and do not go into closed premises.

Write to the administrator through "Write to the administrator" in the bot.

Describe what happened and give the profile number.

We check every report. Messages within the service are kept, so it is

possible to establish what occurred.

While you write in the bot, your telephone number and username stay with

you, and the conversation is preserved. If something goes wrong, there is

something to show. Once you move to private messages, that protection is

gone.

Exchange contacts when you are sure about the person — not because you were

asked to.