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Tinder: How criminals use dating apps to trap the rich

  • Philippa Souza
  • BBC – Sao Paulo

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Police said in an interview with the BBC that most of the victims of the Tinder scandal were men looking for quick and casual hookups.

A man contacted a woman through a dating application and exchanged messages with her, and after a period of time, they made an appointment to meet face to face, and when he arrived at the agreed place, he was kidnapped by armed men .

What was supposed to be a promising romantic encounter turned into a nightmare that lasted for days.

In São Paulo, the largest and richest city in Brazil, this type of crime is common.

The public safety minister told the BBC that the proportion of people lured using fake profiles as bait on dating apps like Tinder was now “over 90 per cent of abductions recorded by local police”.

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