2023-04-27 15:54:14
To make its platform more secure, Tinder imposes a new profile verification system. And to flirt on the dating app, you will now have to authenticate your account by sending a video selfie. Beware of imposters!
Dating apps can trigger butterflies in your stomach, but also turn into nightmares. With the proliferation of fake scam accounts that fake romantic feelings to gain the affection and trust of their prey in order to extort money from them, users may be reluctant to get in touch with strangers! The famous Tinder application is not spared from the problem and, on average, a quarter of its French users are victims of scams, according to norton numbers. The company is therefore seeking to make its platform more secure and has recently deployed an Incognit function, allowing it to go under the radar by limiting embarrassing or burdensome encounters. It also allows you to block suggested profiles and offers more tools to combat malicious, offensive or problematic messages.
Tinder advert in a blog post also strengthen its identification process, which until now required a selfie in order to compare it with the photos published and thus ensure that users do not lie about their identity. From now on, the “video selfie verification” function will make it possible to carry out, as its name suggests, a verification from a video, which is more difficult to falsify than a photo. A good way not to replay The Tinder Scammer !
Video selfie verification: Tinder takes on hustlers
To fight against scammers – or rather hustlers – Tinder provides its users with other tools to help them protect themselves. Now, members with a verified profile can ask their matches – the people they’re chatting with – to verify too, to make sure they’re talking to the person featured on the profile. In their messaging settings, thanks to the “Verified profiles only” option, these same members can also choose to only receive messages from members with the precious blue dot. Finally, users subscribing to the paid Gold offer can now “like” only people whose profile is verified, that is to say 40% of the members of the platform. This limits the choice!
“Tinder users regularly tell us that photo verification is one of the security features they value the most. This tool is an additional way to help members better assess the authenticity of their partner. For our members aged 18-25, photo verification gives them an additional 10% chance to match“, explains Rory Kozoll, vice president of products at Tinder. The company indicates that in the coming months the profiles verified by photo will have to proceed to a new verification, this time by a selfie in video, in order to be perfectly up to date. Twitter would do well to take the seed!
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