Dr. Suresh G. Isave, Pune Online Dating : Session overview Nature - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• Dr. Suresh G. Isave, Pune

Online Dating : Session overview

• Nature of Online Dating
• Threats
• Precautions
• Q&Ns

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Online Dating

• Online dating issues will be discussed in

the session, on the basis cyber safety not morality.

• Crores of people using dating apps and

site, so need to make them aware about cyber crimes committed there.

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Online Dating Nature

• Mobile no.& email, social media

accounts required to register

• Profile – Name/display name, gender,

location, job, interest, links of social media a/c, habits etc.

• Expectations – age, gender interest,

profile, distance, habits etc.

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Online Dating Nature

• Matched profiles are suggested
• Users need to like/dislike (swipe

profiles left right)& wait response from liked profile.

• If liked mutually then chat section
• pens.

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Online Dating Nature

• Users
• Chatbots
• Prostitution personnel
• Blackmailers
• Fraudsters
• Hackers

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Online Dating & Cyber crimes

• Generally dating apps are used secretly

from parents, life partners etc.

• That’s why most of frauds happen on

dating sites are neither reported to police nor discussed in friends n family.

• It is a forbidden realm even in press and

social media.

• Lack of cyber awareness material

regarding dating apps.

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Threats

Threats – illegal Prostitution

• Many profiles are prima facie appear to be

are created by agents from prostitution business to reach their customers.

• They mention agents contact like email,

mobile number, social media account etc. in their profile itself. Some apps do not allow to share contact, still they share in the number and letter combination.

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Threats – illegal Prostitution

• Many of such profiles are real and they

provide real online and offline services but illegally.

• Some profiles pretend to be a sex

worker and ask for online payment as an advance for a service and then blocks user after receiving payments.

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Threats - Online Payments

• Opposite profiles interact with user and
• ffer for online sex i.e. live voice call sex,

sending nude online photos, sending

• nline seducing voice messages on

WhatsApp or other media.

• They send a sample first then will ask you

pay online some amount. Unless they receiving money they continue to send material.

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Threats - Online Payments

• When user starts raising questions

about the sender’s identity, user lose credibility; number will be blocked.

• Some profiles are not fraud, they

charge and give services because their purpose to earn money by online activities.

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Threats - Blackmailing

• Some profiles are made to blackmail.

They encourage to chat, send indecent photos, voice and video calls; they record it and do blackmailing.

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Threats - Pharming

• Some profile ask you pay in their online

bank for dating as an advance and provide some links.

• Once you click it takes you some other

fake sites where they track your bank and card details which could be used for hacking.

• Some profiles give links of their social

media account but when you click on it, it takes you on different sites which are insecure.

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Threats - Lure for subscription

• Most of facilities in dating apps are

available to paid members. Free members can just see but can’t interact.

• Apps tempts free users to be a paid

member by Chabot.

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Threats - Lure for paid subscription

• Apps show that many profiles are

interested in you, to know the details get a paid membership.

• Once you paid, you will find most of

profiles are passive and non-responsive because they are bots.

• Again when your subscription is coming to

an end, your will receive some likes from

• ther profiles, so you can renew your

subscription.

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Precautions

Precautions

• Make your purpose clear of using

dating app to yourself and others.

• Keep profile photo, description and

expectations accordingly.

• Prefer not to keep photo, contact, job

details in a profile description.

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Precautions

• Read a profile details carefully. If you

found following things in a profile, it is probably fake profile operated by agents of prostitutes - half nude, seducing photos or quotes, lengthy profile description, contact numbers, website links etc.

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Precautions

• Verify others profile by various means.

Don’t trust blindly on details given.

• Verify a profile on different social

media platforms.

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Precautions

• Don’t share your contact number,

email, birthdate, real photos, address, and job details etc. personal sensitive information unless you identify him/her.

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Precautions

• Don’t click on the link givens in the
• profile. Most of time they taking you on
• nline prostitution sites, where various

numbers are given. So you come to know it’s not a date but a one night stand illegally.

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Precautions

• Don’t fall in fake responses by apps

which force you to get paid

• subscriptions. Apps try to allure you by

sending likes and responses from beautiful Bot profiles.

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Precautions

• If you shared your contact number you

will start receiving calls and SMS from prostitution professional for online and

• ffline offers.

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Precautions

• Keep away from cybersex. Avoid any

act that may create some proofs to make you blackmail later on i.e. chat, audio video calls etc.

• Sometime they offer you money to do

so, don’t get trapped in the spell. They may blackmail you later.

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Precautions

• Try to avoid online transactions to

dating profiles. Offer them offline transaction for legitimate purpose, so you can identify real person.

• If you doing legitimate interaction with

dating profiles like video calls, hide your identity by covering face or changing voice etc.

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Precautions

• Avoid to meet a person, unless you sure

about their identity. Remember there are many fake profiles in such apps/sites.

• If you are meeting for a date, meet on

public places which you know well.

• If possible tell your close friends to be

around during a date. Don’t hesitate to ask some legal documents to prove real identity.

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Conclusion:

• If you are married or in the reliable

relationship, don’t use dating apps

• r sites to cheat your partner.
• If you are searching for genuine

relationship find other reliable sources.

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Conclusion:

• If cybercrime happens by dating

app you not only damaged by financially but psychologically. You could not share or bear it.

• If you are using dating app for

legitimate purpose, remember prevention is better than cure.

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Thanks !!

• Thanks to Information Security

Education and Awareness program authorities & audience.

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