Account verification
Real people, real connections. Réseau Des Lumières asks members to verify their account so you can chat and meet with confidence — knowing there's a genuine person behind the profile. Verification is quick, and once you're done you earn a verified badge that others can see across the site.
You can verify your account in any of these ways:
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Face verification (instant)
A quick, guided live check confirms a real, present person who matches their public photos — in seconds, with nothing to wait for. It's built to tell a live person apart from a photo or a recording, and anything it can't confirm on its own is passed to a trained reviewer. Your capture is used only to verify you.
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Selfie verification
A private selfie holding a small sign with our site name, checked by our review team. This sign selfie is private — it's only used for the review and is deleted right after approval, never shown publicly or kept on the site. It confirms a genuine person stands behind the profile.
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Phone number verification
We send a one-time code to your phone to confirm it's a real, reachable number. It's a simple step that makes mass-creating fake accounts far harder, and your number is never shown on your profile.
How this protects you
- Layered by design. We look at more than one signal, so a single trick isn't enough to slip through — the methods are meant to back each other up.
- Live, not just a picture. Our instant face check looks for signs of a real, present person, making it hard to pass with a saved photo or a recording.
- Privacy first. Private verification images are used only for the check and deleted right afterward — we keep only the minimum we need, and we never publish them.
- A human in the loop. When our automated checks aren't certain, a trained person reviews it. We'd rather take a second look than wrongly pass — or wrongly reject — someone.
- Visible trust. Verified profiles carry a badge, so the people you talk to can see who's been through the process.
We deliberately keep the finer details of how these checks work private — that's part of what keeps them effective at stopping fake and impersonated accounts.