{"id":357,"date":"2026-02-19T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/how-to-spot-bots-and-scammers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:47:00","slug":"how-to-spot-bots-and-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/how-to-spot-bots-and-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Spot Bots and Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all.<\/p>\n<p>Like every busy chat site, we get our share of bots and scammers. Our systems remove a lot of them automatically, but it helps if you know what to look for.<\/p>\n<h3>Signs that you are not talking to a real person<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A private message out of nowhere, often within seconds of you joining, that reads like an advert.<\/li>\n<li>Pushing you to move the conversation to another app or website straight away.<\/li>\n<li>Links, or &#8220;add me on&#8221; messages with a username for another service.<\/li>\n<li>Offers to sell pictures, videos or &#8220;private shows&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The same message again and again, no matter what you say.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What to do<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not click links from people you do not know, and never enter your password anywhere except our own login page.<\/li>\n<li>Never send money or gift cards to anyone you met in the chat.<\/li>\n<li>Use the report option on their profile or message, then ignore them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every report helps the moderators and our automatic filters catch the next one faster. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all. Like every busy chat site, we get our share of bots and scammers. Our systems remove a lot of them automatically, but it helps if you know what to look for. Signs that you are not talking to a real person A private message out of nowhere, often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adultchat.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}