Tinder date was a front for a cryptocurrency trading scam that robbed woman of her savings

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Grooming is a key part of many online frauds, as one poor woman found out after meeting a bloke called Andy on dating site Tinder. “We just chatted normally at first about likes and dislikes, we seemed to get on well,” said Diane, a London nursery school worker – I’m withholding her surname. “Then he started saying he was in love with me, he was piling on the emotion. “He talked about moving in together and buying a house.” When asked about his job, Andy – it turned out to be a made-up name – said he made money from cryptocurrency trading and suggested that Diane did the same.

This is a clever variation of romance fraud, which more usually involves scammers asking directly for money for themselves for an operation or plane tickets, or

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