Staff writer, safety and apps

Daniel Okonjo

Covers online fraud and platform safety

6 articles published

Daniel writes about how dating platforms actually work — moderation, verification, paid tiers — and about the fraud that follows people onto them. His guides lean on published enforcement data and law-enforcement advisories rather than anecdote, and he is careful to separate 'this is a scam pattern' from 'this person is a scammer'.

Articles by Daniel Okonjo

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Apps

Best dating apps for international dating

Daniel OkonjoAug 9, 20269 min read

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Apps

Tinder vs Bumble vs Hinge, abroad

Three apps that behave very differently once the other person is in another timezone. Where each one genuinely fails, and which to pick for your situation.

Daniel OkonjoJul 23, 20266 min read

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Apps

Writing a profile that travels

Your profile is being read on a phone, in someone's second language, in about eleven seconds. Here's how to write one that survives all three of those things.

Daniel OkonjoJun 28, 20267 min read

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Safety

Verifying someone is real

A verification routine you can run in about ten minutes, from reverse image search to one live video call — plus an honest account of what it cannot rule out.

Daniel OkonjoJun 14, 20267 min read

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Safety

Romance scam warning signs

Romance fraud runs on a script with eight recognisable stages. Here is what each one looks like, why it works, and what to do — including if you have already sent money.

Daniel OkonjoMay 18, 202610 min read

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Apps

Dating app red flags, calibrated

Fourteen patterns worth slowing down for, each with the reason it correlates with a bad outcome and the perfectly ordinary explanation it might also have.

Daniel OkonjoMay 18, 202610 min read

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