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Two checklists for the two situations where it matters most: before you meet someone from a dating app, and before you pay someone for something online. Print them, bookmark them, or tick through them on your phone. Your browser remembers your progress.

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Before you meet someone from a dating app
11 items · work through them in order. Critical items are marked in red — these are the ones that matter most.
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  • Drop them into SafPix to look for AI patterns, editing traces, or missing camera data. Run a reverse image search (TinEye, Google, Yandex) to see if they're stolen. No single tool is perfect — but if multiple signals look off, pay attention.
  • Not a recorded video — live, in real time, with you controlling the conversation. If they refuse repeatedly, it's a no. Real people who are serious about meeting will find 5 minutes for this.
  • "Selfie with your left hand on your right ear" or "Photo of your dinner." A real person can do this in 10 seconds. AI profiles cannot.
  • Many dating apps show "New here" badges or account age. Two-day-old accounts with six perfect photos are suspicious. Real people have messy accounts with gaps.
  • A real person's Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn usually has photos they've been tagged in by other people, years of posts, and friends commenting. Fake profiles have none of this.
  • Saying "I love you" within days, declaring you're soulmates, wanting to move off the app immediately, and oversharing emotional stories early are classic romance-scam moves.
  • Any request for any amount, for any reason, before you've met in person — no. "Medical emergency." "Customs fee." "Investment opportunity." "Ticket to visit you." All scams. No exceptions.
  • What neighborhood do they live in? Which grocery store? What school did their kids go to? Scammers run from specifics because their cover story breaks down.
  • Share the person's profile, photos, and where you're meeting. Set a "check-in time" where you text your friend. This has prevented the worst outcomes when other steps failed.
  • Coffee shop, museum, busy park. You drive yourself. You pay your own tab. It's cliché because it works. No exceptions on the first meeting, no matter how much you've talked online.
  • If something feels off, something is off. The human intuition for deception is calibrated by 100,000 years of evolution. It's almost always right. The cost of canceling a bad meeting is zero.
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Before you pay a marketplace seller
9 items for Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, eBay, OfferUp, rental listings. Critical items are the ones that actually protect your money.
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  • Drop them into SafPix to look for AI-generated images or editing artifacts. Run a reverse image search to see if they're stolen from other listings. If the same photo appears on 20 different "sellers" — it's a template scam.
  • How long has the account existed? How many prior listings? Any reviews? A day-old account selling a $2,000 item is nearly always a scam.
  • Something priced 40% below market is either stolen, damaged, or a scam. Search the same item on completed eBay listings to see what people actually pay.
  • "Can you send me a photo with today's newspaper next to it?" or "A photo with your username written on paper?" Real sellers can do this. Scammers cannot.
  • No wire transfers, Western Union, MoneyGram, gift cards, crypto, or "Zelle to a friend." All of these are unrecoverable. Use credit cards, PayPal Goods & Services, or escrow.
  • Public place. Daytime. Inspect the item before paying. Bring a friend for high-value items. Many police stations have "safe exchange zones" for this exact purpose — use them.
  • For apartment/house rentals: cross-check the address on public records. Search the listing text on Google — scammers copy-paste real listings. If the landlord "is out of the country and can't show the unit," it's a scam.
  • A buyer sends you a check for more than your asking price and asks you to refund the difference? The check bounces a week later and you're out the "refund." Decline any overpayment.
  • Credit cards, PayPal Goods & Services, and eBay Managed Payments all offer dispute resolution. "Save fees by using Zelle" is always a scam setup.
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No tool is 100% — but patterns add up

SafPix is one signal among many. It won't catch everything, and it can't make decisions for you. But when you combine photo analysis with reverse image search, video calls, and the other checks above — scammers run out of places to hide. The story is in the pixels. You just have to look.

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