Staying safe on Kahoo

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. Kahoo 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 Kahoo'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

Kahoo 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 Kahoo 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.