This is probably because most of his market will want to quickly validate that the woman looks like their profile.

I never encountered fake picture problem, what makes me think it must be very rare. Most people don't even do something as simple as selecting their best photo (professionally taken, or with proper hotornot testing), they just put a few random pictures. If you care a lot you can just ask for some extra pictures or webcam session (right now most people don't have webcams, but it's only matter of time), but it's not really worth it.

I'm almost absolutely sure David DeAngelo simply wants to reuse his existing system in a new context, instead of developing a new approach. That's perfectly understandable if you're already good offline. If you're not, but you're smart and good at writing, I would I would advice going directly online to start with, and not bothering much with the club game.