![]() ![]() ![]() Like countless other victims, he was then told to test the waters by opening an account with Binance and then transferring $1,000 from it to a dodgy crypto trading platform called FidelityEx.įor the uninitiated, Binance is an online crypto currency exchange where investors can buy digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. “She said BIS was tipped to rise to $500. Lest there be any doubt, the fraudster sent Sajjad a 68-page white-paper on the crypto currency, detailing among many things, its “trustworthy mechanism”. Sajjad said he never suspected anything was amiss when the woman asked him to move their conversations to WhatsApp and then persuaded him to invest in BIS. And yet, the relationship felt real to him. ![]() Of late, dating apps have become the new hunting ground of internet predators, with romance scams raking in millions of dollars annually.Įxperts reckon at least one in every ten online dating profiles is fake.Īs is typical with such scams, Sajjad’s online courtship was largely via WhatsApp text messages. “We have come forward with our stories so that people could learn from our mistakes and avoid such scams,” he said. Online swindler: Woman scammed out of $1 million by fraudster she met on dating site.UAE: Watching porn using VPN could fetch you a Dh2 million fine.UK Tinder swindler who conned Dubai woman out of Dh700,000 sentenced to jail.We were greedy and stupid, but we don’t want others to be in the same situation as us,” said Ali, who works as an operations manager at a private firm in the UAE. pegged their losses at $11,000 and $3,000 each. If losing money and being blocked by his love-match weren’t bad enough, he’s now being chided by two of his friends who also invested in BIS at his behest. "She claimed the investment would transform my life." Broken heart, empty wallet ![]() Within days of their whirlwind online romance, the woman sweet-talked Sajjad into investing into a crypto currency called BIS. She said she wanted to open a yoga studio. She called me ‘Honey’, I called her ‘Princess’. “There was nothing common between us, but she was friendly and chatty. Soon we started talking and struck a rapport,” Sajjad told Khaleej Times. She said she was from Korea but lived in China. ![]()
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