Here are some tips for dating safely in Asiandatingrealms.com
Remain anonymous
- AsianDatingRealms.com uses an anonymizer or re-mailer to mask your real e-mail, or please set up a Hotmail or other free account just for dating online. And Asiandatingrealms.com do not disclose members’ profile lastnames (surnames) and their registered E-mail address.
- Never include your personal contact information in your profile, especially telephone numbers, email, home address or your last name, and only give them out when your instincts tell you this is someone you can trust. It's okay to take your time.
- We advise our members to keep the relationship anonymous at the outset. You should stay anonymous and protect your identify until you get a comfortable feeling about the other person, until you really get to know them online.
Extensive communication - take your time
- Find out as much as possible about the person you are communicating with before you meet them in person. Communicate extensively using email, instant messaging or chat prior to calling the other person. During ask a lot of questions and watch for inconsistencies.
- Do not disclose your phone number or personal contact information until you feel comfortable to do so.
- Request multiple recent photos of the person you have been communicate with, getting a better idea about this person.
- If someone gives you a phone number with a strange area code, check it out to make sure it's not a charge number before you make the call.
- Do not be rushed, and do not rush the other person. Let the relationship develop online until you are comfortable with each other - take your time.
- When you have comfortable with this member online, move to a phone call before you meet offline in person. The safest way to do this is by using a public phone. Set up a time for the call, and give the other person the telephone number of the public phone. Once you are comfortable enough, you can share real phone numbers.
Tell friend or family members
- Ask your friends - sometimes they are not blinded with the situation, you considered cute might ring differently to them. This might seem like dating by committee, but it helps you keep perspective.
Meet and date offline
- When you do decide to meet face to face, pick a public place and provide your own transportation to and fro.
- Make sure someone knows whom you are meeting, where you are going and when you are coming back. (Someone other than the person you take with you.) Store all of the e-mail conversations, and let your friend know where to find them. If anything goes wrong, they will be the source of information on how to locate the person you have been chatting with.
Possible problems
If someone asks you to go to their personal web site or asks you for money, use common sense to not oblige and then report the situation to us by clicking the “Report abuse” button in the my profile page.
Be aware of culture differences. Take your time to learn and understand their habits, behaviors, feelings and expectations. Spend time to communicate not to judge but learn the difference.
