Online dating is the latest of dating trends and can be a great way
to meet people... but you never really know who you’re meeting - without performing a background check first. Meeting someone in person that you initially met online can be scary because most dating websites do not run background checks on their members but that is slowly changing after one woman was sexually assaulted by a man she met on Match.com and sued the company.
However, it is still not foolproof or a comprehensive security measure, even if they do! Things can always slip through the cracks and people are con-artists. Additionally, sex offenses are not the only crimes one can commit...just because someone does not appear on the sex offender registry does not mean they are not a criminal. People can be batterers, thieves, or even already married, which opens up a completely different can of worms.
No system is completely foolproof, and it may not even be possible for every dating website to find out every little thing that may be unfavorable about all of its members. So, it doesn’t hurt, if you have any suspicion about the person you are meeting, or even if you don’t, to take your safety into your own hands and run a national background check.
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