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Woman claims she's experiencing death threats through Match.com

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Match.com is one of the country's most popular dating websites.

One woman who reached out to Eyewitness News says after her experience she's been getting death threats and is now scared for her life.

After recently moving to Charlotte, Nadia Bell thought she'd try Match.com -- after all its slogan is "more relationships and more marriages than any other site."

"I was new to the city, so I wanted to find someone. Kind of get to meet some people in the area," Bell said.

Four months ago, she thought she met a good guy but when he started getting serious after a few dates she decided to cut it off.

"That's when the nightmares started. I started getting harassing text messages, phone calls. Want to come shoot up my house with my kids living in it" she said.

In the text messages Bell showed Eyewitness News one says, "I'm going to kill you tomorrow for playing with my feelings. I do have a gun on me,"

It's been about a month and Bell says the threats haven't stopped. She called police and even filed police reports, but she said she was told Police couldn't do anything for her because it didn't happen in front of an officer.

CMPD referred her to the Magistrate's Office, but Bell says she was told they didn't have enough evidence to arrest him.

"I went down to the Magistrate's Office the next day and they told me they can't due to technology. I tried to show the lady my text messages on my phone. She said well we can't prove its him that's giving you the text messages. And I'm like it has his nickname on it. You can call him and you can find out. I have the police reports," said Bell.

Eyewitness News reached out to CMPD and learned if magistrate doesn't find probable cause in situations like this, a person can always go to the court house and file a restraining order. They can also try calling their phone company and asked for the number to be blocked.

Bell says she's not sure those options will work. She says the only way she may feel safe is if she moves. And as far as her next dating experience, she says she'll try finding someone the old fashioned way.

"I'm just nervous every day and I'm just fearing for me and my kids life," Bell says.

Eyewitness news reached out to Match.com.

They said they don't do any kind of background check, but they have online dating safety tips on their front page.

They also encourage members to exercise caution, like not giving out emails, phone numbers, or home addresses.