Safety

The short version

• You can end any call immediately. You never owe anyone an explanation for it.
• Assume anything on camera could be recorded, by anyone, on any platform.
• Nothing that identifies where you live belongs in a first conversation.
• If someone asks you for money, that is the end of the conversation, not the start of a negotiation.
• Report behaviour that crosses a line. It takes seconds and it is the only way we find out.

What not to share

The rule that covers almost every case: a stranger on a video call does not need anything that could find you offline. Concretely, keep the following out of the call — in speech, in chat, and out of the frame behind you.

• Your full name, address, street, or the name of your building.
• Your phone number, personal email, or account handles on other platforms.
• Bank details, card numbers, wallet addresses, or gift-card codes.
• Your workplace or school, and anything with a badge or a logo on it.
• Documents, letters, parcels, or a window with a recognisable view.

You do not have to be secretive to be sensible. Country, city if you like, what you do for fun, what you are watching — all of that makes a good conversation and none of it puts you on a map.

Ending and reporting a call

Leaving is always the first option, and it is always on screen. There is no penalty for it, and the other person is not told why.

If someone behaves in a way that should not be on the platform — nudity, harassment, threats, anything involving a minor, or an attempt to move you off Omet to extract money — end the call and report it. Reports are read. Reporting is more useful than blocking alone, because blocking protects only you while a report protects whoever they would have met next.

Money and pressure

A recurring scam in this category runs the same way everywhere: a warm conversation, a sudden emergency, and a request to send money, top up a card, or move to another app where the request can be made privately. Treat every one of those as the same event, no matter how convincing the story is.

Separately: calls on Omet are paid, each person sets their own rate, and on a matched call the rate appears on screen before charging starts. Nobody from Omet will ever contact you off-platform to ask for a payment, a password, or a verification code.

Also worth knowing about recording: any request to record you, or an implication that you are already being recorded and must pay to stop it, is a known extortion pattern. Do not pay, do not delete the conversation, and report it.

Age requirement

You must be at least 18 years old to use Omet. Accounts belonging to anyone younger are removed. If you believe you have been connected to a minor, end the call and report it immediately — that report is the highest priority we handle.

If something goes wrong

Report it in the app first, because that report carries the call context with it. If you also want to reach a person, use the contact page and say what happened, roughly when, and what you would like done.

If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services. We are a video chat platform, not an emergency service, and we would rather be honest about it than have you wait on us.

The behaviour we expect from everyone here is set out in the Community Guidelines.