Another “Tinder scammer” appears: man steals 190 thousand dollars from a woman in the United Kingdom

For love, sometimes he loses his mind and other times even a large amount of money. A woman in Dubai tried to search for her better half online, but she was scammed and the man stole £140,000 from her, which is equivalent to US$190,000.

Currently, and due to the restrictions caused by COVID-19, dating applications have become more popular, one of them is Tinder.

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UK scam details

After the controversial Netflix documentary about the story of Shimon Hayut “The Tinder Scammer”, new cases of men who with lies, and because they are attractive, involve single women who seek to find the love of their life.

The BBC website reports in detail the case of Richard Dexter, a 38-year-old man, who admitted that he defrauded a woman in the United Kingdom. According to published information, prosecutors said Dexter met Amrita Sebastian, a young woman from Dubai, through the dating app Tinder in 2015.

The first scam involved £40,000 in 2015. At that time, the man stated that he had bought a catalog of patents for biopharmaceutical products.

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Then the conversations continued in which the man seduced and deceived the lady, until he managed to steal the sum of 140.00 pounds sterling. “She shared intimate information to build trust,” prosecutors detailed. However, Amrita Sebastian, along with other women, denounced him. The man was taken to court where he received a four and a half year jail sentence.

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According to The Guardian newspaper, prosecutor Robert Bryan claimed that Dexter pretended to be a successful businessman, with a biopharmaceutical company valued at 6.8 million pounds sterling. In addition, he boasted “immense wealth, private jets and expensive cars.”

Bryan revealed that Amrita traveled to the UK twice from Dubai and in August 2015 she met with Dexter. He convinced her that she needed capital to begin production of scientific equipment.

In addition, he promised to pay him £100,000 in interest, or more than $135,000. She agreed to lend him the money and over the course of 15 months she made a series of transfers of up to £68,000.

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