Tinder Swindler to Chinese Crypto Currency Scams!

Tinder Swindler is a popular Netflix documentary about girls who were conned out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. People who have watched the documentary think, how dumb are these women!? How can they get conned like that? But after watching the documentary, I can definitely see how they were conned. Remember I lent money to my ex-boyfriend. I wasn't about to get conned, I took legal actions; I can't believe Shimon Hayut aka Simon Leviev didn't face any punishment. In Ontario, if you can prove that the money was a loan and not a gift, you have a case, anything over $10K is considered criminal; under $10K it's civil suit.

My friend recently sent me an article called 

Organized crime has infiltrated online dating with sophisticated 'pig-butchering' scams

 About Chinese organized gangs posing as young attractive professionals and getting women to invest in crypto currencies. I know not a lot of people read my blog, but I thought I would put it out there on how to spot these fakes.

I not saying all good looking Asian men are scammers. Here is an example of a profile of a scammer. Full disclosure, I have not spoken with this person, I just took his profile from Coffee Meets Bagel.

What to look for in these scams: 

• They have very little information about themselves. They don't write paragraphs about themselves. Sometimes you will get a sentence, but most of the time there is nothing written. 
• Obviously Chinese or Asian decent
• I don't know why, but most say they are Christian, maybe because that sort of brings a person's guard down
• They only post selfies.
• Even this picture, there are people in the background, but it looks like it's photoshopped.

These online dating sites should make it mandatory for them to write a few sentences, at least! They are making it too easy for scammers to make multiple profiles!

There are some scammers who write couple of things of their profile: 

This guy Adrian is from Hinge. He did have some things written on his profile. He wrote that he sky dived  and so Kelly (who is online dating for me) asked him about it. He went sky diving in Dubai.

Stats on Adrian:

• lives at Waterfront
• Came from Singapore to US and then to Toronto last year during the Pandemic - Red Flag - as soon as he said Singapore, I had a suspicion that this was a scam, but when he said he came via US, I was 80% sure this was a scam.
• is a Reservoir Engineer - Red Flag - I asked him what that meant. He said he worked for a Petroleum company. I then asked him which one? Because there aren't any in Toronto. ANNNNDDDD He blocked and deleted me.
• Based on his profile Kelly didn't know he was a scammer, he had a decent profile with pics of him in hand wraps. She thought he was promising. I thought he was promising too.

When you're talking with them, you can play around a little, but if you want to get them off your back:

• They will always talk about Crypto and how well they did that day, how they made $10K. They will even send you a screenshot of the market. Luckily I don't give two fucks about Crypto, so it's literally falling on deaf ears.
• They will always say they are going to buy a big ticket item, yet they won't use it. IE. One guy said he collects motorcycles, but doesn't ride it. He was going to buy a Ducati just for show. Another guy had bottles of Chateau Margaux, but doesn't drink? 
• They are very vague, especially about the places they go in the city. Like you fucker, I have lived here all my life. You need to be more specific!
• As mentioned in my previous blog, when a guy doesn't want to meet up because of Covid, always suggest video chat. If they give you some bullshit excuse then move on. If they say some shit like their phone is busted suggested Zoom, you can get a Zoom link for free. If they say their computer is broken as well, don't believe it. Are you telling me your phone AND your computer are busted? Also, you should never be so desperate to look for love that you would settle with a guy with a busted phone and computer! At almost 39, I will not accept a fucking guy who can't get his shit together. GET A NEW MOTHER FUCKING PHONE OR GET THAT SHIT FIXED. If you don't have the funds for that.... THANK YOU NEXT!!!!! I am too old to be dealing with broke asses!

Maybe getting old has changed, but if I was younger, who knows, I may have fallen for the Tinder Swindler, but lets not be crazy, I would have probably given him $1,000. I am not going into debt for you. I would have also probably said, that's fine let the bad people come after you. If you're worth billions, you don't need my money. Go ask your dad! But I sympathize with these women, and I can see why they did what they did and how they fell into that trap.