WOOVY — SAFETY TIPS

Last updated: August 2026

We do not run background checks on anybody on Woovy, and no dating app that tells you otherwise is being straight with you. A profile is a set of claims. These are the habits that keep meeting strangers a normal, low-risk thing to do.

ONLINE, BEFORE YOU MEET

• Keep the conversation in Woovy. Someone who wants to move to another app within a few messages is the commonest scam pattern there is, and once you are off Woovy we cannot see it, act on it, or help.
• Do a video or voice call first. Five minutes settles almost every question you have about whether the person is who their photos say they are. Someone with an endless run of excuses not to is telling you something.
• Search their photos. A reverse image search takes seconds and catches stolen pictures.
• Hold back the details. Your full name, your address, your workplace, your bank, your children's school — none of it needs to be in a chat with someone you have not met. Your phone number can wait too.
• Watch what is in your photos. A street sign, a uniform, a delivery label, your building's front door — pictures give away more than people expect.

NEVER SEND MONEY

This is the one rule with no exceptions, so it gets its own heading.

• No amount, to nobody, for no reason. Not a plane ticket, not a customs charge, not a hospital bill, not a phone that broke, not a "sure thing" in crypto.
• Never share bank details, card numbers, or one-time codes. Never let anybody talk you through installing an app while they are on the phone with you.
• Do not accept money either. Being asked to receive a payment and forward it makes you a money mule, and it is a crime whether or not you knew.

Romance fraud is patient. It can take weeks of genuine-feeling conversation before the ask arrives, and the ask is often small the first time. The moment money enters the conversation, stop and report the profile.

MEETING IN PERSON

• Meet in public, the first few times. A busy café, a bar, a park at a sensible hour. Not their home, not yours, not somewhere remote.
• Tell somebody. Who you are meeting, where, and when you expect to be home. Share your live location with a friend for the evening — every phone can do this now.
• Get yourself there and back. Your own transport, your own way home. Do not be dependent on somebody you have just met for a lift.
• Keep your phone charged, and keep it on you.
• Mind your drink. Watch it being poured, keep it in sight, do not accept one you did not see arrive. If you feel drunk out of proportion to what you have had, tell staff and get help immediately — that is not embarrassment, that is the right response.
• Leave whenever you want. You owe nobody an explanation, a full drink, or a polite ending. "I'm going to head off" is a complete sentence.
• Trust the feeling. If something is off, it is off. You do not need to justify it, to them or to yourself.

CONSENT

Consent is enthusiastic, specific, and can be withdrawn at any moment — including after a yes, and including in the middle of something. Nobody owes anybody physical contact because of a match, a date, a dinner, or a previous evening. Pressuring somebody after a no is not persistence; it is coercion, and it will end your account here.

IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG

• Block and report from the profile or the chat. Reporting blocks them too, so you never have to choose. They are not told.
• Keep the evidence before you block — screenshots of the profile and the messages — if you may want to go to the police.
• Report a crime to the police, not only to us. We can remove an account; we cannot investigate.
• Write to us at dlabseu@gmail.com if a report needs more explanation than the form allows.

WHERE TO GET HELP (BELGIUM)

• Emergency: 112
• Police (non-emergency): 101
• Sexual violence: Zorgcentra na Seksueel Geweld — 24/7, free, no report to police required — seksueelgeweld.be
• Emotional support / suicide prevention: Zelfmoordlijn 1813 — zelfmoord1813.be
• Fraud: report to the Belgian federal authorities via meldpunt.belgie.be

Outside Belgium, contact your national equivalent. The EU-wide emergency number is 112 everywhere.