Divine

Safety Tips

Practical advice for staying safe on Divine — before, during, and after talking.

Effective date: May 16, 2026

Most people on Divine are here for the same reason you are — to talk to someone new and have a real conversation. A few habits keep the rare bad actor from spoiling it. These tips aren’t a substitute for our Community Guidelines or your own judgement, but they reflect what our trust & safety team sees actually working.

Before you start a voice match

  • Use a strong, unique password on the email account you use for Divine. If your inbox falls, so does your account.
  • Turn on two-factor authentication for your Apple ID or Google account if you sign in with Apple or Google.
  • Keep your profile lean. Your bio is visible to anyone you match with — don’t put your last name, employer, school, exact neighborhood, or home address there.
  • Don’t link other accounts in your bio if they reveal personal info you wouldn’t share with a stranger.
  • Complete face verification. It only takes a minute and means the people you talk to know you’re a real human — and you know they are.
  • Take a beat before your first match of the night. Divine works best when you’re ready to be present. Don’t hop on while emotional, intoxicated, or distracted — you’ll regret what you share and lose the ability to read someone else.

During a voice match

  • You can leave at any time, for any reason. Voice match is designed so either person can disconnect without explanation. You don’t owe anyone a reason.
  • Trust your gut. If something feels off — pressure to keep talking, weird questions about money, sudden intimate steering — end the call.
  • Don’t share personal details on a first call: full name, address, workplace, schools, your kids’ names or schools, your daily routine, or anything you’d give your bank to verify your identity.
  • Don’t move off Divine too fast. Scammers love getting a phone number, a WhatsApp, a Telegram, an email — somewhere they can keep contacting you after you block them on Divine. There’s no rush.
  • Recording is not allowed. We don’t record voice match audio, and our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service prohibit you from recording too. If someone tells you they’re recording, leave the call and report.
  • Watch out for synthetic voice. AI voice clones are getting good. Subtle robotic cadence, perfect pronunciation in every accent, or refusal to repeat or improvise can be red flags. If you suspect AI, ask them to say something specific in a specific way — or just hang up.

Audio you record

  • Background noise can locate you. Sirens, school bells, transit announcements, distinctive radio chatter — anything ambient can let someone work out where you are or where you go regularly. If you don’t know who’s on the other end of the call, take it from a quiet room you don’t visit every day.
  • Don’t share intimate audio. Even with someone you trust. Once it leaves your device, you no longer control where it goes — and we don’t allow sexual content on the platform regardless. See Community Guidelines.
  • If you do send a photo, watch the background — signs, license plates, house numbers. We strip EXIF on upload to Divine.

Money and gifts

  • Never send money to someone you met on Divine. Not for a sick relative, not for an emergency, not for a plane ticket, not for an “investment opportunity,” not for crypto. Every one of those is a scam.
  • Gifts on Divine have no cash value. They’re a way to say “I enjoyed that call.” They are not a payment, they don’t obligate the recipient to do anything, and they should not be used to pressure someone.
  • Watch for crypto, MLM, or job pitches. Divine isn’t a place to recruit. Anyone trying it is breaking our rules — report them.
  • “Sextortion” happens. If someone threatens to share intimate content unless you pay, stop replying, take screenshots, block them, and report. We will work with you and law enforcement if needed.

Scam taxonomy

The same scripts come up over and over. Knowing them helps you spot one quickly:

  • Romance / long-con scam. Builds emotional connection across weeks, then introduces an “emergency” that requires money. Common pattern: deployed overseas, working on an oil rig, traveling for a contract, mother in the hospital.
  • Pig-butchering / investment scam. Befriends you, casually mentions a “great investment opportunity” (often crypto), walks you onto a fake platform that shows fake gains, takes all the money the moment you try to withdraw.
  • Sextortion. Captures intimate content (or pretends to) and demands payment to prevent “leaking” it to your contacts or social media.
  • Advance-fee scam. “I want to send you a gift / package / inheritance, just pay the shipping / customs / processing fee.” There is no package.
  • Job offer scam. “You can make $X working from home,” usually involving deposits, “training fees,” or pretextual purchases on fake company sites.
  • Verification scam. Asks you to verify yourself by clicking a link or providing a code (often a Google Voice code that hijacks your phone number).
  • Tech-support / hacked-account scam. Pretends to be Divine support, asks for your password or one-time code “to fix” your account.
  • Charity / disaster scam. Plays on current events, asks you to donate via a sketchy link or non-traditional method.
  • Catfish. Uses someone else’s photos and made-up biography. Often refuses voice calls or video. Hangs up at the first concrete plan to meet.
  • AI-voice impersonation. Uses synthetic voice to impersonate a celebrity, a relative, or a stranger to bait an emotional or financial response.

In every case the playbook is the same: pause, screenshot, block, report. Money sent to a scammer is almost always unrecoverable. Protecting yourself before you send is a thousand times easier than chasing afterward.

If you decide to meet in person

  • Tell someone you trust. Share the meeting location, time, and what you know about the person you’re meeting. Check back in afterward.
  • Meet in a busy, public place — a café, a brewery, a daytime walk in a park you know. Not a residence. Not the first time.
  • Have your own way home. Don’t rely on the other person for transportation, especially on a first meeting.
  • Don’t feel obligated to stay. If the vibe is off, leave. You don’t need a polite excuse.

For women

Voice can feel intimate fast — faster than text. That’s a feature; it’s also a vector. Some specifics:

  • Set your own pace. The right person will match it. Anyone who escalates faster than you’re comfortable with is the problem.
  • If someone asks for your number, your social handles, or your address before you’ve felt out the conversation, that’s a flag.
  • If someone seems to recognize details about you (workplace, neighborhood, daily routine) that you don’t remember sharing, screenshot, block, and report immediately.
  • If a voice match starts to feel sexual or coercive, you don’t need to explain. End the call. Block. Report.
  • If you’re a parent or share your phone with anyone, sign out when you’re done so notifications don’t expose conversation context.

For LGBTQ+ users

Divine supports LGBTQ+ users and bans hate speech and harassment. A few specific notes:

  • Divine lets you choose what you disclose about your gender, pronouns, and who you’re interested in. Disclose what you’re comfortable with — not more.
  • If you live or travel in a region that criminalizes same-sex relationships or expression, think carefully about what you make public in your profile, photos, bio, and Stories.
  • If someone reacts hostilely to your identity, that’s a violation of our Community Guidelines — report immediately and we’ll act.
  • We work with crisis lines that serve LGBTQ+ users in distress (see the crisis section below).
  • Outing — in any direction, by anyone — is a violation of our doxxing and privacy rules. Report and block.

For travelers and people abroad

  • App content, profile photos, and even the fact that you have Divine installed may be visible to others in some shared-device or border-inspection scenarios. Consider whether you want the App installed during certain trips.
  • Some countries restrict or criminalize content or relationships that are normal on Divine. Use your judgement about what you share and who you talk to.
  • Local emergency-service numbers differ. Look up the right one for the country you’re visiting before you need it.
  • Cellular gives you more reliable voice quality than airport or hotel Wi-Fi. If you’re going to be on Divine while traveling, expect bad outcomes on shared networks — drops, robotic audio, dead air mid-call.

For students

  • Don’t include your school name or graduating class in your bio — combined with photos, those are easy to verify and turn into a directory of where to find you.
  • Watch for “mentor” or “networking” pitches that move quickly to money, gifts, or in-person meetings. They are almost always not what they claim.
  • If someone you’re talking with claims to attend the same school, you can ask a low-stakes verification question that someone there would know. (You don’t need to make it confrontational.)
  • If you’re a college student and feel you’re being harassed off-platform by someone you met on Divine, your school’s Title IX office and campus safety can help — even if the contact moved to a different platform.

For parents and guardians of young adults

  • Divine is for adults aged 18+. We enforce this, but no app is foolproof — talk with your young adults about what online voice contact looks like.
  • If you believe a minor in your household has signed up, contact us at support@divineapp.io with the subject line “Parental Request,” and we’ll work with you to delete the account.
  • If you suspect a child you know has been contacted by someone online inappropriately, report it directly to the NCMEC CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org or 1-800-843-5678, and to local law enforcement.
  • See our Child Safety policy for our broader child-safety stance.

For people on the receiving end of unwanted behavior

If you experienced harassment, harm, abuse, or any other behavior that violated your boundaries on Divine, none of it is your fault. Whatever you said, wore, agreed to earlier, or how the conversation started, the responsibility belongs to the person who crossed the line.

  • Take care of yourself first. Reach out to a trusted person, a crisis line, or a professional if you need to.
  • Save what you can. Screenshots, account name, timestamps, what you remember of the conversation.
  • Report and block on Divine. We can’t act on what we don’t see, but once we do see it, we move fast.
  • Reach out to law enforcement if applicable. Sexual assault, stalking, doxxing, and threats are crimes in most jurisdictions even when they happen online.
  • You don’t have to be sure to report. “Something felt off, here’s what happened” is enough to start a review.

Reporting and blocking

  • Block immediately. Tap into the profile, tap block. They can no longer call, message, or see you. They are also not told you blocked them.
  • Report from anywhere it happened — a profile, a message thread, a voice match (after the call ends), a Space, or a Clan.
  • Be specific. The more detail you include — what was said, what time, any screenshots — the faster our team can act.
  • You don’t need to give up the conversation thread. When you report a user, we have visibility into the relevant content for review even if you’ve deleted the chat from your side.
  • Threats of imminent harm — to yourself, to you from them, to a child — email support@divineapp.io in addition to in-app reporting. Subject line: “Urgent.”

If you’re in immediate danger

Divine’s safety team is not an emergency service. If you or someone you’ve been talking to is in immediate physical danger, call your local emergency number first (911 in the U.S., 999 in the U.K., 112 across much of Europe). Then report inside Divine or email us so we can act on the account.

Crisis resources

If you or someone you’re talking with is in crisis:

  • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (United States) — call or text 988.
  • Crisis Text Line — text HOME to 741741 (US/CA), 85258 (UK), 50808 (IE).
  • Samaritans (UK & Ireland) — call 116 123.
  • Lifeline (Australia) — 13 11 14.
  • International directory — findahelpline.com.
  • RAINN (sexual assault hotline, U.S.) — 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
  • National Domestic Violence Hotline (U.S.) — 1-800-799-7233, text START to 88788.
  • The Trevor Project (LGBTQ+ youth and young adults) — 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678.
  • Trans Lifeline (US/CA) — 1-877-565-8860.
  • StrongHearts Native Helpline (Native and Indigenous domestic / sexual violence) — 1-844-762-8483.
  • The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Crisis Helpline (intimate-image abuse) — 1-844-878-2274.

Common red flags

Patterns we see — from our own moderation queue and from widely-reported research — that should make you slow down:

  • Pushing hard, fast, to move the conversation off Divine.
  • Refusing to verify, or refusing to come on a voice call after agreeing.
  • Stories that don’t match earlier ones — different job, different city, different name.
  • A “crisis” that conveniently requires money. Always.
  • Voice that’s never out of breath, never repeats, never picks up an ambient sound — could be AI.
  • Refusal to take “no” for any answer.
  • Excessive flattery early. “Love bombing” in the first conversation is a warning, not a compliment.
  • Wanting to see your face or hear you in private contexts that don’t make sense on a social app.
  • Asking for verification codes, one-time passwords, or anything that “just got sent” to your phone.
  • Investment advice, crypto wallets, or job offers in the first or second conversation.
  • Inconsistent answers when you ask the same question two different ways.

If you’re escaping an abusive partner

  • Use System notification banners with no message preview so a partner can’t read what’s coming in.
  • Hide the App on iOS via Screen Time or App Library; on Android via the app drawer.
  • Use a sign-in method (a fresh email account, or an Apple or Google account) that your partner can’t access.
  • Sign out fully on any device you don’t control.
  • National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233. StrongHearts (Native/Indigenous): 1-844-762-8483.

If someone keeps coming back after you blocked them

  • Block hides you, but a determined user may try with a new account. Report the new account from the profile and reference the prior block; we can device-block in clear cases.
  • Screenshot any contact that moves off-platform — those screenshots are useful for local cyberharassment / stalking laws.
  • If the contact escalates to anything resembling a real-world threat, your local police can compel records via our Law Enforcement Guide.

If someone clones your voice

  • AI voice clones of real users are becoming common. If you encounter what you believe is a clone of your voice inside Divine (in a Space, a voice message, or any other audio), report it from the content with a note saying “this is a clone of my voice.”
  • We can scan for matched audio across the App. Outside the App, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Crisis Helpline (1-844-878-2274) supports victims of non-consensual intimate or impersonation content.

Spaces and Clans-specific safety

  • If you’re targeted in a Space, leave the room. Coming back to fight on someone else’s stage rewards them; muting them rewards everyone.
  • Hosts can mute and remove. If a host is the problem, leave and report the Space.
  • Coordinated brigading across Spaces or Clans is a Community Guidelines violation. Report the pattern, not just one message.
  • In Clans, an admin who violates the rules of their own community is reportable to us, not just the community.

Questions, ideas, concerns

Tiger LLC — Trust & Safety
Email: support@divineapp.io