Are you on Tinder? With 75 million monthly active users, you might be able to find the right one. However there are also traps you need to look out for. Read more about catfishing, sextortion, phishing and other practices used by scammers.
“It’s a match” is now a common expression in the dating scene, and “I’m on Tinder” is synonymous for “dating and available”. It doesn’t necessarily mean you are about to meet the love of your life — maybe you won’t ever talk — but it means there is mutual attraction between you and the someone you’ve “swiped right.” In fact, “swiping left/right on someone” is another term we’ve all gotten used to.
With 75 million active users monthly users and 10.6 million subscribers, Tinder recorded over 70 billion matches in 10 years that led to 1.5 million dates per week.
Falling for the wrong one!
But here’s the thing: no digital platform can protect you from those with ill intentions. This is what we’ve seen recently on the Netflix documentary Tinder Swindler, which tells the story of several women scammed by the same man — a real person, a profile with several pictures, linked social media accounts and even photo verification, who managed to steal US$10 million after love bombing his victims and luring them into financing his luxury lifestyle. Just like this guy, there are…
