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Exclusive | Dating app scam: So lucrative, there were three gangs!
Updated On: 06 September, 2024 06:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah Khan
Investigators break open the inner workings of various splinter groups making hay by ripping off unsuspecting men
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Hotel Royal Inn in Goregaon West, where six suspects in the dating app scam were nabbed, on September 4. Pic/Anurag Ahire
The six suspects arrested in connection with the dating app scam claimed that it started 18 months ago when a group from Delhi floated the idea to pub owners here. Seeing how lucrative the scam was, some desperate pub owners started adopting the modus operandi independently. Meanwhile, realising there was even more money to be made, another group broke away from the Delhi gang.
The authorities told mid-day they uncovered evidence of the scamsters’ involvement in half a dozen clubs in Mumbai. On Wednesday morning, following mid-day’s reports on the racket, the Bangur Nagar police raided the Royal Inn Hotel in Goregaon and arrested six suspects allegedly involved in scamming dating app users. The accused were produced before the Borivali metropolitan magistrate’s court and were remanded in police custody for five days, according to an officer from Bangur Nagar police station.
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