Check Over 40 public sources — police media, sanctions lists, news archives, photo indexes and more — in under a minute.
Used by Australian women before first dates, rideshares, and marketplace meetups.
Anything helps. The more you give, the sharper the read.
ASIC clean. No sanctions, no adverse media. Photo, name and socials all line up.
AI-generated summary of the source data only. Vett does not characterise the Subject, infer intent, or assign labels. Read the source-by-source signals below before drawing any conclusion.
Use this to start a conversation,
not end one.
You've already done the social media check. The Insta is private. The Hinge profile is fine. He seems normal in the messages. But there's something in your gut.
By the time you arrive at the bar, you'll know. A name and a photo is enough. No mucking around with private investigators or hour-long Google deep-dives. One tap, traffic-light verdict, peace of mind. Or a reason to turn around.
Same playbook every time. Different name on the app, real name buried in business registers or news archives. Each had public signals worth checking before the first date.
Simon Leviev posed as a billionaire's son on Tinder. Charmed women across Europe, then borrowed money he never returned. Everything needed to catch him was public the whole time he was matching.
Kirat Assi was catfished for nine years by someone using stolen photos of a real cardiologist named Bobby. A reverse-image check on his profile photo would have surfaced the real Bobby in seconds.
Australians lost $201 million to romance scams in 2024. Most started on dating apps. Most victims said the same thing afterwards: "there were signs I ignored."
No Netflix doco. Just the guy who's a little off — the story that doesn't add up, the photo that feels too polished, the past he won't talk about.
No accounts to set up before you start. No friend network. No exposing yourself. You give us what you have, we run the search, you get a clear answer.
A name. A photo from his profile. A phone number. Or just paste a screenshot of his Hinge profile and let us pull everything out automatically.
Reverse-image search across 200+ sites. Adverse media. Sanctions. Data breaches. ASIC. Socials. The lot, in parallel, in seconds.
One clear verdict at the top, every signal listed below it. Sources cited. No accusations, just facts. You make the call. Save it, screenshot it, send it to a friend.
No vibes. No "AI-generated risk score" nonsense. Every signal we surface comes from a public, named, verifiable source. We tell you exactly where each finding came from so you can cross-check it yourself.
We check public sources only. Results may include matches that are not the person you searched — confidence scores and a "Not them?" flag let you correct mistakes within 14 business days.
Vett isn't just a safety check. It's the whole system — verify a profile and dig into his background before you meet, detect AI-generated photos, cross-reference against community safety signals from real users, check the suburb, share your location while you're out, then debrief and let Vett auto-log the date record. Every stage of dating, covered.
Switch on live location and your friend gets a private link that tracks you in real time — moving on a map, with your current address. It stops on its own at your check-in time.
Don't tap "I'm safe" by your deadline and Vett alerts your friend automatically — with the venue and your last known location. One panic button sends it instantly.
We run their profile photo through reverse-image search across 200+ sites and show you every other profile the same face appears on — including ones under a different name. What it means is your call.
Once you've checked someone, save them to your watchlist — free, for anyone. Whenever you want a fresh look, run a re-scan from their profile and Vett tells you if the verdict has changed since last time. You stay in control of when checks happen.
When you run a check on someone, Vett cross-references their email and phone against known public data breaches. If they've been in a breach, you see it right in the report.
When someone shows up clean on paper, but other women have already had a bad time with him — you should know. If other Vett users reported this person, your scan shows flag categories, report count, and severity level. Reports come only from users who actually ran a check — provenance-locked and moderated.
Reported by paid Vett users. Use as one signal among many.
AI-generated faces have made catfishing trivially easy. Vett runs every uploaded photo through Hive Moderation's AI detection model — the same technology used by platforms to flag synthetic media. If a photo shows signs of AI generation, you see it flagged right in the report, with the full confidence score so you can make a more informed call.
This photo may not be real — AI confidence: 94%
Low AI-generation probability · analysed by Hive AI
Romance scammers work at scale — the same number, the same photo, the same script, sent to hundreds of women at once. Vett cross-references every phone number against Australian scam reporting databases and its own platform intelligence: if multiple distinct users have scanned the same number in the last 30 days, that's a signal worth knowing — and you see the exact count.
Phone matches indexed Australian scam databases · Scamwatch/ACCC
Searched by 7 different Vett users this month
When your check-in closes — whether you tap "I'm safe" or an alert fires — Vett automatically creates a date record in your profile. It links the check-in timeline, the venue, and the scan report you ran beforehand, all in one entry. Log your post-date notes and the full picture is there whenever you need it. No button. No friction.
Pick the venue when you set up your check-in and Vett shows you a 1–10 safety score for that suburb — built from real public state crime data and checked weekly. The underlying datasets update roughly quarterly, so the score reflects the latest published figures.
Source: BOCSAR · Jan–Dec 2025
After the date, log it in under a minute. Great, fine, bad, or didn't happen. Flag what stood out — he was rude to staff, he pushed when you said no, he lied about something. Over time Vett shows you the pattern across every person you've checked. Your history. Private. Encrypted.
Vett bundles a curated directory of Australian women's safety services — crisis lines, refuges, domestic-violence, legal and financial support — alongside a plain-English answer library on AVOs, coercive control, stalking and leaving safely. Sorted by state, and human-curated — no AI guesswork.
iPhone's Check In is great if your friend already knows the guy. If she doesn't, "she's somewhere in Surry Hills" isn't enough.
Start with one. Upgrade if you're dating actively. No subscriptions buried in onboarding, no "free trial" trap. Just pick what fits.
Yes. Vett only surfaces publicly available information — ASIC records, news media, public social profiles, sanctions and regulatory registers, and police media releases. Under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), publicly available information is treated differently from private personal information, and no consent from the subject is required to aggregate or present it.
Vett is not a criminal background check service and does not access the National Police Checking Service (NPCS) — that system is governed by the National Police Checking Service Act 2000 and requires the subject's written consent. We deliberately operate outside that regime.
We're a search engine for information that's already public, organised so you can actually use it.
No. We don't notify, contact, or interact with the person being checked in any way.
Searches are anonymous on our end too — we don't sell or share who you searched for.
Australian criminal record checks legally require the subject's written consent — that's why employers ask you to sign a form. Vett is not a criminal record check and does not access the National Police Checking Service (NPCS).
What we do is different: we query public news archives, regulatory registers, sanctions lists, and other publicly available sources. Every source is reviewed for legal compliance before it's added.
Apple Check In sends a pin on a map. Vett's alert tells your friend you were on a date, names the venue, the time you were due, and your last known location — with Vett+, a live map. You can also share the full report you ran on him directly with her.
So if something goes wrong she's not staring at a dot. She knows where you were, that you didn't check in, and has the report to hand to police.
No — we charge for the check, not the verdict.
But if a check fails technically (data source down, no result returned at all), we'll refund or run another one for free.
Your Australian Consumer Law consumer guarantees still apply — see Terms s15.
A few things, on purpose.
Vett is rate-limited. You can't run dozens of checks a day. Every search is logged against your account for seven years. Our terms forbid using Vett on someone you've been told by a court not to contact, and breaking that gets your account terminated and records handed to police if asked.
If someone believes Vett has been used to harass them, they can report it at getvett.com.au/report-misuse. We investigate within five business days, we can identify the searcher, and we cooperate with law enforcement.
Vett is built for women checking men they're about to meet. We've designed it so misusing it is hard, traceable, and worth losing your account over.
Read the detail. Every finding shows what it is, where it came from, and what it might mean.
A "red" doesn't always mean don't go — sometimes it means ask a direct question first. Trust your gut, meet in public, tell a friend where you're going.
Vett is one input, not the verdict.
Not a background check. Not a verdict. Not a replacement for your instincts. Vett is a private signal, built for the hour before you walk into a bar to meet someone you've never met.
In Australia, on average, a woman is killed every nine days by a current or former partner.
Two in five Australian women have experienced violence since the age of 15. One in three has been a victim of physical violence. Australians lost AUD $139.9 million to romance scams last year, and women lost more per scam than men, on average AUD $36,000 each.
Most of them knew something was off. None of them had a way to check.
The rest of us are doing it ourselves. Screenshotting Hinge profiles into group chats at midnight. Reverse-image-searching his face. Asking three friends if anyone's heard of him. Hoping someone has. Going on the date anyway, because what else are you supposed to do.
We saw Plinq in Brazil. Half a million Brazilian women using one app to do all of it in under a minute. We looked for the Australian version. There wasn't one.
So we started building.
We're a brother and sister team. One of us builds. One of us makes sure it doesn't sound like it was made by someone who's never been on Hinge. We argue about both.
We're not survivors. We're not experts. We're two people who think Australian women shouldn't have to do this alone anymore.
— Michael & Alysha, founders
Sources: Our Watch, ABS Personal Safety Survey, ACCC National Anti-Scam Centre Targeting Scams Report 2025, ACCC Romance Scam Fusion Cell
Every time someone runs a full check on Vett, 10% of that payment goes directly to Australian domestic and family violence organisations — paid out each quarter, no conditions.
You're not just protecting yourself. Every check helps fund the services that support women who didn't get out in time.
Run your first check. Most women take less than a minute, all up. By the time you're at the bar, you'll know.
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