Hello, and thanks for stopping back to look at my blog. I would like to say a special thanks to all of you who have gotten in touch with me at www.dream-marriage.com with both your kind words for this blog, and with your questions about our site. Today, I want to talk with you a bit about security. I have touched on it a little in a previous blog, but I would like to go a bit more in-depth into what we do at Dream-Marriage.com to make certain that our customers have the safest and most secure dating experience available on the internet.
A few weeks ago I wrote an article titled She Loves Me, She loves Me Not: Dating Russian Women Online Safely in which I expressed my belief that online security at any dating website – and indeed at any website you do business with – is a partnership between the site and the customer. As a customer, you have the responsibility to exercise common sense, and do (or don’t do) those things that most of us know by rote by now including not giving personal and financial information to strangers, keeping your virus protection and firewall programs up to date, and never opening attachments to emails from people you don’t know and trust. These are just basic online security measures akin to looking both ways when crossing the street or unplugging the toaster before fishing out a stuck piece of bread with a knife. These things should be second nature; you shouldn’t even need to think about them.
Unfortunately as I look around the internet at websites that are in the same business as we are at Dream-Marriage.com, I find that a very large number of online dating websites seem to have taken position that this is all the security that their customers require; that, in essence, the responsibility for online security rests solely with their customers and not with them. Though I find it hard to believe, the vast majority of websites that I look at in the online dating business have little to no security in place for their customers! Their attitude, it seems, is to take your money, advise you to be careful, and walk away.
To be honest, I find this appalling, because Dream-Marriage.com has spent over ten years trying to rehabilitate the image online dating started out with. There was a time – and it wasn’t all that long ago – when online dating sites of all kinds had a bad reputation. Either they were little better than porn sites, or they were just fronts for stealing identities and credit card information. Today, some of us have managed to help the industry rehabilitate itself, and we have proven to the world that just because we have thousands of the hottest Russian women on the internet choosing to use our site doesn’t mean we are not a legitimate, above-board business. To see that sites are still out there which offer virtually no security whatsoever for their customers even at a time when credit card fraud is on the rise and identity theft is rampant makes me sick.
At Dream-Marriage.com, we firmly believe that security is a partnership between us and our customers. We do want our customers not to give out personal or financial information or open unsolicited attachments, and we certainly recommend that they use and update top of the line virus-scan and firewall software; the difference between us and our competitors is that this is where our customers’ part of the partnership ends. We take over from there.
To start with, www.dream-marriage.com is verified as secure by GoDaddy.com Secured – one of the top website verification services on the internet – as well as tested daily by MacAfee Secure – considered by many to be the premier internet security company in the world. While we have invested in top of the line security software for our servers, we still go that extra step and have the site tested seven days a week, 365 days a year by an outside security company, just to be safe. We believe that our customers deserve nothing less.
Next, we have a dedicated team of employees whose job it is to make certain that Dream-Marriage.com is free of scamming and scammers. We randomly audit the accounts of our lady members to search of even a hint of impropriety or scamming activity, and we also investigate every single report of suspicious activity we receive from our customers. Most of the time, of course, these reports are nothing more than misunderstandings, but we suspend any account under investigation immediately after we receive a complaint until we are completely certain that everything with that account is legitimate and above board. In the rare instance that we do find something to be amiss, the account is banned, and immediately deleted.
Finally, Dream-Marriage.com is the only Russian dating website to feature our industry leading “Confirmed Profile” service. When a customer clicks on a hot Russian woman’s profile and sees the Confirmed Profile verification at the top of that page, they can rest assured that the beautiful young woman in question is exactly who she says she is and appears to be in her photos or introduction video. To be a Confirmed Profile a member of our staff will have actually met the young Russian woman in question and verified her identity via passport or other official identification. No other dating website, whether specializing in hot Russian women or a general dating website, offers this kind of protection to their customers. Only Dream-Marriage.com takes our customers’ security that seriously.
If it seems like I am obsessed with security, it is because I honestly am. I know the pain and heartache scammers and identity thieves cause on a regular, basis and I – along with the rest of the staff at Dream-Marriage.com – work hard every day to make certain that nothing like that happens as a result of using our site. While we certainly can’t keep the entire internet safe, at least you can rest assured that at Dream-Marriage.com we take our responsibility of the partnership to keep our customers safe seriously.
Okay, that’s all for this time. Come see us at http://www.Dream-Marriage.com some time if you haven’t visited us before and, no matter where you head on the internet – remember to be careful. Not all internet businesses care about their customers’ safety as much as we do.
