NOTE FOR WOMEN ON DATING APPS:
1). When on a 1st or 2nd date meet up, never leave your vehicle and go to another location!
2). Never go out on the water in a boat with a 1st time date and 3 of his buddies, with no other women on board!
3). Never disembark a boat at a location other than where you boarded the boat.
4). Never take a ride from a total stranger that your date has arranged to take you to house, where you never been before.
Online Dating Dangers in Florida; Young Woman Set Up for Gang Rape by Her 1st Time Date and his Boating Pals. Florida is One Of The Most Dangerous States For Online Dating. Online Dating Sites Have Included Serial Killers; When a software developer creates a dating app that a serial killer uses to find his next targets. Florida Woman in early 30's travels 4 hours to meet man at his house who she had met on an internet dating site for her age, then goes missing. Unfortunately, there are sad and disturbing examples of women who have gone missing or were found deceased after meeting individuals through online dating platforms.
One notable case is that of Sandra Lemire, an Orlando, Florida, mother who disappeared in May 2012 after going on a date with a man she met online. Her remains were found nearly 12 years later in a retention pond near Disney World in December 2023. Lemire had borrowed her grandmother's red minivan to meet this man, and her disappearance remained a mystery for over a decade. The case was eventually resolved through the efforts of volunteer divers who used new information from police, including the location of her last cell phone tower, to narrow down their search.
Family and friends wanted Kaila McCleary to get out and meet people. But no one could ever have imagined the man she met on a dating app would come close to taking her life, holding her captive, and raping her, repeatedly. "After a while, I didn't know if I was going to live, honestly," McCleary told 7 News about the ordeal that lasted 28 days. Trevor Double, 48, is now serving 40 to 60 years for the crimes he committed against McCleary including assault, unlawful imprisonment, and torture. "Each day was more severe," she said. "Each time he beat me was more intense. The weapons started getting bigger and heavier."
McCleary said her first time meeting Double in person, she realized he was not the man he represented himself to be on the app. His pictures had to be about 20 years old, which would explain why he resisted doing a video chat with her. "He also told me that he was just a few years older than me," said McCleary, who is in her twenties. "When I actually met him, he was old enough to be my father."
Pennsylvania man charged with drugging and raping women he met on dating site. According to authorities, the accusers, who are ages 17 to 30, said they met Andrew Gallo, 40, on the website sugardaddymeet.com. Gallo, 40, is alleged to have arranged dates with them after meeting them on the site. Schorn said Gallo “made it a point to make sure those dates occurred at his home,” where he would “surreptitiously” hide dangerous drugs in alcoholic drinks he served them, “which rendered them so impaired, they were unable to consent to anything, let alone sexual acts.” They described feeling a lack of control during the alleged sexual encounters.
- Meeting in public: It is generally recommended to meet someone you've only interacted with online in a public place for the first few times, such as a restaurant or coffee shop. This provides a layer of safety and allows you to leave if you feel uncomfortable. NOT AT HIS HOUSE ON 1st DATE!
- Trusting your instincts: If you feel uneasy about the situation, trust your gut feeling and don't hesitate to leave.
- Controlling your transportation: Ensure you have your own transportation to and from the meeting place so you can leave whenever you want.
- Informing someone: Let a trusted friend or family member know where you are going, who you are meeting, and when you expect to return. You can even consider sharing your location with them via a phone app.
- Waiting to share personal information: Avoid sharing personal details like your home address or phone number until you feel comfortable with the person.
- Checking their online presence: Look for the person's social media accounts and do a quick search to verify their identity and ensure they are who they say they are.
- Vulnerability: Meeting at someone's house, or any other private place, for the first time can increase your vulnerability and make it harder to leave if things go wrong.
- Sexual assault and exploitation: Meeting someone you don't know well in a private setting, particularly on the first date, can increase the risk of unwanted sexual encounters or exploitation.
- Difficult to assess the situation: It can be harder to gauge someone's true intentions or character in a private setting compared to a public place.
Dating on website App's; be very cautious of your date if his social profiles show with minimal information or none at all: Be cautious of profiles with limited details, single photos, or "no linked social media".
Specifically, a woman shared a negative experience on a Reddit thread discussing dating app safety, mentioning she narrowly avoided a potential stalker after seeing his picture in a news article involving the police.
Few dating websites run background checks on their members to make sure they are who they say they are. FAKE PROFILES at OurTime, eHarmony, Siver singles, Bumble, Hinge, Tinder, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish, the video chat app Azar, the League, Match, and others. DON'T BE FOOLED FIND OUT WHO THEY REALLY ARE. With as many as 40 million single Americans using online dating services or web-networking sites to look for love, it would seem that there has never been an easier time to find a soulmate online. Private investigator Bill Warner warns that the world of internet romance is fraught with peril with scammers who hide their motives behind seemingly innocuous virtual identities. Scammers use fake profiles to get with lonely people online and eventually start the money train to them. The apps don’t create fake profiles, people do. DON'T SEND CASH! See private investigator Bill Warner's "Romance Scammers" interview for International News article concerning “The dangerous side of online dating” by Gretchen Peters Foreign Correspondent, see https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/the-americas/the-dangerous-side-of-online-dating-1.594340
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