Tinder swindler: Man looking for second wife loses life's savings to crypto scam


Of late, dating apps have become the new hunting ground of Internet predators, with romance scams raking in millions of dollars annually. — People vector created by pch.vector - www.freepik.com

If your online romance looks too good to be true, it probably is. Who would know this better than dad-of-five Sajjad Khan, who has been duped out of his life savings by a woman he met on a popular dating app, but never in real life.

Lured into a bogus crypto currency investment scheme by his potential second wife, the unsuspecting Ajman-based Pakistani safety trainer lost US$47,000 (RM209,526) in a matter of days. He had saved the money over several years to make a down payment against a house.

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