Dating site eRomance is fighting online dating scammers with a sophisticated 7-layer filtering system, aimed at containing online scammers that seek to victimize other community members.
“The system has been created to keep the community safe and to keep the scammers out,� says Neal Cabage, founder of eRomance.com.
Neal commented on the system here.
In talking about the new filtering system, Collaboradate says:
I remember a while back Dave Evans of Online Dating Insider had mentioned a black list of email and IP address that would be shared between sites. I love this idea , and because I loved it so much I have started to design an API for just this solution. As soon as I get it ironed out I will share more of the details here.
Glad to hear it, looking forward to seeing what you come up with. hopefully this is the beginning of a new breed of scam filtering systems.
Via Yahoo News.
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This is where that Fuji Film technology for facial recognition might really work well. Think of a shared photo library – behind the scenes of course – looking for photos common in scams. My guess is they re-use the same photos over and over on different sites. Not that they can’t copy one from someone else’s that is legitimate, but it could help raise the red flag on potentially fictitious profiles.
Good point Bill. I saw that setup a few years ago when they were trying to get a foothold into the dating market. Haven’t seen anyone actually using it, have you?
Riya.com would be another likely partner for this kind of thing. I’m uploading a few hundred pix at the moment to see how it works.