How to Avoid Date-for-Hire Scams

How to avoid date-for-hire scams

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Most date-for-hire scams follow one pattern: a too-good profile, a fee before anything is agreed, and payment by a method you cannot get back — often days before a wedding, when you are least likely to walk away. A real booking puts the plan and the full price in writing first, and payment goes against an invoice.

Warning signs

A "verification" or "deposit" fee before any plan is agreed
Payment by gift card, cryptocurrency or a transfer app to a person
Cash asked for on the night
Contact moved to a private number at once
A price that rises the week of the event
Profiles that look like advertising photographs

What a real booking looks like

The plan, the introduction and the full price in writing first
An invoice with a payment reference, paid from the payments screen in your account
A published cancellation rule
A public first meeting, and contact through the platform

A man in a white shirt and his date, a woman in a trench coat, talking as they sit on seaside rocks in the low evening sun. — A dinner in another city, with a local at your side.

If you think you have been scammed

Stop paying, keep every message, and contact your bank. If someone has used Girlfriend Hire's name, tell us at the address on the contact page.

Frequently asked questions

Does Girlfriend Hire ever ask for money before the plan?

No. You pay the 50% advance only after you have seen the full price in writing and chosen a companion.

Will Girlfriend Hire ask me to pay her directly?

The advance is paid against our invoice, never to her. The rest of the price you pay her directly on the day, at the price shown and never more.

How do I know a message is from Girlfriend Hire?

It comes from gfhire.com or our published channels on the contact page; anything else is not us.