Staying safe on Mulaqat

The short version

• Never share your full name, address, school, workplace, or phone number.
• Never send money, gift cards, or crypto to someone you met here. Not once, not ever.
• Assume anything you show on camera could be captured by the other person's phone.
• If something feels off, press Next. You owe a stranger nothing.
• If someone breaks the rules, Report them. It genuinely does something.

What the other person can see

They see your camera, your display name, your country, and any interests you both share. If you are a guest, they see "Guest" and your country — nothing else. They do not see your email, your IP address, your exact location, or anything about your moderation history.

Your state or region is hidden unless you turn it on yourself. It is off by default for a reason: a country is a crowd, a region is a much smaller one.

Scams to expect

Random video chat attracts a predictable set of scripts. Recognising them is most of the defence:

• The recording threat. Someone encourages you to undress, records it, and then demands money. Mulaqat cannot un-record what another person captured — the only reliable defence is not doing it. If it happens, report them, block them, and do not pay. Paying does not end it.
• The move-to-another-app request. A conversation that immediately wants to continue on another platform is usually going somewhere Mulaqat's moderation cannot follow.
• The investment friend. Warm, patient, and eventually about a trading platform. Nobody you met by chance on a video chat has a financial opportunity for you.
• The pre-recorded loop. A video that never quite responds to what you say. Report it as a fake or pre-recorded video.

Reporting and blocking

Block ends the call immediately, prevents any future match with that person in either direction, and removes any follow relationship between you. They are never told that a specific person blocked them.

Report sends the incident to a moderator with the reason you chose. Reports are weighed, not counted: a single reporter cannot get someone banned by pressing the button repeatedly, and reports that look coordinated are capped as a group. Independent, credible reports from people who genuinely met that person are what carries weight.

You can report and block in one action — the report dialog offers it, and it is on by default.

If you are under 18

Mulaqat is not for you, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. Underage concerns are treated as a severe violation and are reviewed by a person, not by a counter.

If something serious happens

Report it in the app first — that attaches the session to the case. For anything urgent, or anything involving a minor, contact us directly from the contact page. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services; we are a small team and cannot act at that speed.

What Mulaqat does on its side

• Every conversation is between exactly two people. There are no observers, ever.
• No administrator can watch, join, or record a live call. That capability does not exist.
• Video and audio are peer to peer and are never stored.
• Text chat is relayed and never written to a database.
• Repeated credible reports lead to a warning, a six-month restriction, then a permanent ban.

Questions people ask

Is random video chat safe?

Partly, and the parts matter. Mulaqat cannot record your call, because video never passes through our servers, and the other person only ever sees your country rather than your city or IP address. What no platform can prevent is the other person pointing a phone at their screen, so the working rule is to assume anything on camera could be captured.

What should I never share on a video chat?

Your full name, your address, your school or workplace, and your phone number. Those four turn an anonymous conversation into a person who can be found. Also check your background for anything identifying, such as a delivery label, a certificate on the wall, or a recognisable view from a window.

What can the other person see about me?

Your camera, your display name, your country, and any interests you both share. If you are a guest they see the word Guest and your country, nothing else. They do not see your email, your IP address, your exact location, or your moderation history. Your state or region stays hidden unless you switch it on yourself.

Someone is threatening to share a recording of me. What should I do?

Do not pay. Paying identifies you as someone who pays and the demands continue. Block them, report them on Mulaqat, keep screenshots as evidence, and report it to your local cybercrime authority. In India that is cybercrime.gov.in or the 1930 helpline.

Does reporting someone actually do anything?

Yes. Reports are weighed rather than counted, so they resist abuse while still working. Repeated credible reports lead to a formal warning, then a six-month restriction from video chat, then a permanent ban. A report must be tied to a session you genuinely shared.

Can Mulaqat staff watch my call?

No, and the capability does not exist. Every conversation is between exactly two people with no observers. Video and audio travel directly between the two browsers, so there is nothing on our side to watch or store. Moderators work from reports and session metadata only.