Indian Woman in the US Loses Her Life Savings to a Hinge Scammer

22 Jul 2024

Love Turned Nightmare: Woman Shares AI Dating Disaster with Bengaluru Techie

"I went on a date last night with someone I thought I hit it off with. The conversations were really good and I thought I finally found someone funny and super entertaining," quoted by the username "hustlegurrl" on Reddit. She said that while talking online, he seemed funny and interesting but after meeting him personally, all the wit and charm were gone. After some time, they had drinks and started talking about startups and AI, and that was when he let it slip that he had used AI in his chats. That's when she realized what had happened; he used AI while chatting with her as well.

21 Jul 2024

Indian Woman in the US Loses Her Life Savings to a Hinge Scammer

A 37-year-old Indian-origin woman, Shreya Dutta, has lost around $450,000 in a cryptocurrency dating scam in the US. She dated a scammer named Ancel disguised as a French wine trader via the online Hinge app. This scam led her to have PTSD trauma. The FBI reported cryptocurrency scams worth over $3.5 billion, with 40,000 victims. Many cases remain unreported due to shame.

20 Jul 2024

Dating Scam: Women Lure Victims to Pubs, Run Up Huge Bills, Then Vanish

Hyderabad police registered a case on Friday (7/06/2024) for an alleged “dating scam” of a few women taking men to a pub and then leaving them after making them pay large amounts of bills. These women would make fake profiles on different dating apps and then take the victims to pubs. Leaving their victims with staggering bills, the women quietly slip away from the pub, according to police reports. The investigation is in the process and they have registered a case against the management, they added.