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Romance Scams Robbed Britons of £100M Last Year THE GUARDIAN According to Action Fraud, the UK's reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, 8,863 cases were reported to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) between November 2020 and October 2021,...
NEWSLETTER October 2021
NEWSLETTER October 2021 The Dating Agency Association is proud to announce four new member agencies:Match Made in ScotlandY L IntroductionsSingle Black DatingTwo’s CompanyWelcome to all of you We can now proudly announce that we have representation in both Sweden and ...
Rise In Online Dating Crime: A Reaction From the DAA
A Sharp Rise In Online Dating Crime. At the Dating Agency Association, we are saddened and alarmed to read recent reports of a rise in online dating crime. Last week, Sky News reported that 2,054 offences were recorded between 2011 and 2016. Back in 2011, 140 crimes...
Domestic Violence: Police Say “We Don’t Act on ‘What If’s’
Domestic Violence: How Seriously Do Call-Handlers Take Warnings? At the DAA, we were saddened to learn of the case of Karen Catherall. Karen 45, from Flintshire, was strangled by a man she met on the Plenty of Fish dating site, in September 2014. ...
A Valentine’s Love Story
Why It's Never Too Late To Begin Your Own Valentine's Love Story As we get older, life can wear us down. The notion of finding love feels ever more unrealistic. As a consequence, it's easy to become rather Scrooge-like about Valentine's Day. ...
Where have all the good women gone?
We are delighted to say that the Dating Agency Association featured prominently in the Daily Mail this week, through our own Relationship Adviser, Trelawney Kerrigan, as journalist Rebecca Evans wrote about men fighting back from recent stinging criticism that single...
Catfishing on UK dating sites – the DAA view
On Tuesday 18th July Labour MP for Stockport Anne Coffey used an adjournment debate in Parliament to debate making the practice of 'Catfishing' - the stealing of someone's identity and using it online illegal. Unfortunately however - currently catfishing on UK dating...
Finding a recommended dating agency in London
London is unique in terms of dating and holds a large percentage of the whole of the UK dating marketplace, particularly in the professional sector where using a matchmaker is more prevalent, so finding a recommended dating agency in London can be harder than around...
Older age dating for those 50+
In recent years one of the fastest growing sectors of the dating marketplace has been older age dating - those people aged 50-75 and a little beyond that in some instances. These 'older agers' or 'silver surfers' have realised that meeting someone and having a...