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Crypto Scammers’ New Target: Dating Apps (Published 2022)
“Everything was a lie,” said one woman lured into a recent scam.
The man from the dating app Hinge checked all of Tho Vu’s boxes.
He was a boyishly handsome architect from China, staying in Maryland on a long-term assignment. They had never met in person — he was still waiting to get his Covid-19 booster shot, he said — but they had texted back and forth for months and she’d developed a serious crush. He called her his “little sweetheart,” and told her that he was planning to take her to China to meet his family when the pandemic was over.
You know where this is going.
Within weeks, Ms. Vu, 33, had sent more than $300,000 worth of Bitcoin, nearly her entire life savings, to an address that Mr. Zhao had told her was connected to an account on the Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchange OSL.
Instead of going into an exchange account, Ms. Vu's money went into the scammer’s digital wallet, and he vanished.
Bruh.