Feel confident connecting.

Make a safer plan

1. Take your time. Keep early chats here, protect your home/work address and identity documents, and notice whether someone respects your boundaries.
2. Before meeting. Choose a busy public place, tell someone you trust where you are going and arrange your own transport home.
3. Keep your choices. You can change your mind, decline intimacy or leave at any point. If a situation feels uncomfortable, seek help from someone nearby.

A video call or verification badge does not prove that someone is safe. You do not owe anyone a meeting.

Read eSafety’s online dating guidance (Australian resource).

Scams and money

Watch for pressure to move off-platform, sudden declarations of love, secrecy, repeated excuses not to meet, urgent money requests or ’easy’ investments. A scam can develop over months; time alone is not proof of trust.

1. Pause. Do not send money, gift cards, cryptocurrency, bank details or verification codes to a dating contact. Do not transfer money or open accounts for them.
2. Check independently. Talk to someone you trust. Avoid links or contact details supplied by the person pressuring you.
3. If you paid or shared access. Contact your bank or payment provider through its official channels promptly. Secure affected accounts, then report and block where available.

Being targeted is not your fault. Scamwatch’s relationship scam guide includes recovery and reporting steps for Australia; elsewhere, use your local consumer-protection or police reporting routes.

Intimate images and threats

If someone shares or threatens to share an intimate image without your consent, you deserve support. Do not send more images or money. If safe, note the account, message date and where the content appeared before reporting and blocking. Do not reupload intimate images or download suspected child abuse material.

• StopNCII: check adult eligibility ’ for people depicted in intimate images taken at 18 or older who meet its current criteria and already have the file.
• NCMEC Take It Down: images taken under 18 — this also applies if you are now an adult. Use only files already on your device; do not download or share a file to submit it.
• Australia: check eSafety reporting options — read the eligibility and steps for your situation. Other countries have different routes.

The two image tools create digital fingerprints on your device for participating platforms. They do not cover the whole internet, submit a Next Together report or guarantee removal here. Read each service’s privacy and eligibility information before using it.

Report, block and get help

Graphic violence and gore are prohibited in profiles, photos and messages. Read the Community guidelines and use the relevant Report control if you encounter it.

1. For a member or message. Open the relevant profile/photo in Sign in to Discover or conversation in Sign in for Messages, then use its Report control. Include a brief factual explanation.
2. To stop contact. Use Block on the profile or conversation. Reporting and blocking are separate choices. Sign in to review blocks in Settings; removing a block does not erase a report or restore conversation permissions.
3. For account or privacy help. Check support availability and receipt instructions. For a restricted account, use the help flow on the sign-in page.

Urgent reports and people without an account

Next Together is not an emergency service. For immediate danger, contact local emergency services. Open public support or an urgent report without an account; the form checks intake availability and does not require image uploads. A stored receipt does not confirm review or removal. If availability cannot be checked, use Retry to check again. Do not rely on it for time-sensitive help. Read the current limits and external resources. Do not reupload intimate images or suspected child abuse material.

Response times depend on available reviewer coverage. No instant response or continuous monitoring is promised.