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  1. Have a way to filter out bots solicitation and scams

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    Tom Shine commented  · 

    - For 'massage therapists' you've already blocked the word massage. But there are still profiles getting around this asking people to sign up to 'refundable deposit' which are in fact signing them up to scam websites with expensive subscriptions. I work in IT Security, I've done the investigation here! You could use a URL verification tool to block untrustworthy sites. But also go further in detecting the language of scammers. There are tools to do this, I'm sure!
    - There are less people trying to make out they are American soldiers who turn out to have photos belonging to other people. But we need to verify identity in a more secure way! Some of the other apps are doing this in a crowd sourcing way by getting other users to confirm people are genuine. Worth consideration.
    - Still need to block users sending web links to 'have a good time', am guessing Web calls on your platform creating users and doing this in an automated way? Again URL filtering and blocking.

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