Online Dating Photos + Identity Verification

bna05 DatingHeadshots and Honesty Online announce a strategic partnership to provide daters the tools they want to make online dating more fun and more successful.

Through this new partnership, DatingHeadshots and Honesty Online address two areas that have disappointed users – unreliable photos and inaccurate personal information.

DatingHeadshots, an industry leader in online dating photography, offers professional photo shoots that produce accurate, yet flattering photos to post on a dater’s profile. Honesty Online, a leader in online identity verification, provides a secure identity credential so daters can share verified personal information, such as a dater’s age.

Online personal profiles are laden with inaccuracies, omissions and lies. They run the gamut from innocent embellishments to outright criminal duplicity. Users know it and their dissatisfaction is clearly reflected in the poor retention rates experienced by dating sites. Whether the lies and omissions are big or small, they are all dating fraud that chips away at the credibility and value of a much needed service. Dating fraud has become a big enough problem to have drawn the attention of state and federal legislators.

“Online dating fraud can take all forms, from minor, such as using a 10 year old photo, to dangerous, with use of dating sites by sexual predators. Anyone that joins a dating site should post a recent photo with identity verification. They should demand the same from potential dates. Without this safety measure online daters are at risk of being scammed. That’s where this new service can help,” says Gordon Gooch, President of DatingHeadshots.

The verification package begins with a professional DatingHeadshots photo shoot. The photographer starts with verifying that the person who purchased the online dating photo package is the same person sitting for the photo shoot. Next the dater completes the Honesty Online verification process, which range from a simple identity verification to a more thorough background check. The dater then choose their DatingHeadshots photos. Once all steps are complete, the dater will be given a Honesty Online credential containing their DatingHeadshots photos.

Mark Ezra, Chief Executive Officer of Honesty Online states, “We have been approached by many different companies that claim that they can verify a person’s photo using technology. Not one of these companies provided a solution that we felt was foolproof and which we were comfortable putting our company’s reputation behind. Through our partnership with DatingHeadshots, we are thrilled to be able to give online daters that foolproof solution to ensuring that the people they are dating really match their photo and also provide daters all the protection available with an Honesty Online verification credential.”

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