Tinder is a location-based social search mobile app that facilitates communication between mutually interested users, allowing matched users to chat. The app is most commonly used as a dating app.
A news came from Dubai shows the real misuse of that dating app.
According to reports,Three men along with two women – one of them at large – allegedly robbed a man of Dh101,000 after luring him to their flat.
According to public prosecution records, the five Nigerian nationals, aged between 23 and 32, opened an account on popular app, Tinder, posting photos of a European good looking woman.
Then they lured the victim by engaging him in a conversation through that fake account and invited him for a massage date in a flat. Once in the flat, they physically assaulted him and stole his cash and mobile phone after threatening to kill him.
They took his car keys to get his wallet out of the car, containing his bank cards, and forced him at knifepoint to reveal the pin codes.
They managed to withdraw Dh55,000 and Dh45,000 on two bank cards.
They have been charged in the Court of First Instance with forced robbery, physical assault and making criminal threats in addition to unlawful use of others’ bank cards.
The case was reported at Al Barsha police station on July 10.
The 42-year-old complainant, a Lebanese working as a salesman, said during investigation that he had met a Russian woman in July on Tinder and they developed a relation online. She gave him her mobile number and invited him to have dinner at her place.
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