Straight guy uses gay app to rob them
Usually when you meet a guy off a queer hookup app fancy Grindr or Scruff (or Hornet or Jack’d or DaddyHunt or Recon or GROWLr), the worst thing that can happen is discovery out that he’s used a profile picture from five years earlier, when he had more hair and less gut. But that’s not the case in Canberra, Australia, where a ring of three to four men are reportedly using the apps to meet men and then blackmail them.
According to the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, the local AIDS Action Council has received at least two separate reports from men who say that when they went to meet users they had been talking to on the apps, they were threatened to hand over cash. Sometimes, the altercations have turned violent.
“[The scammers said] they’re going to abuse them, if they don’t give them money they’re going to tell their friends and family what they’re doing,” Philippa Moss, director of the council, told ABC News. “There has been some indication of potentially conference them and then beating them.”
It’s not totally clear from the reports if men are being extorted solely because of their sexual orientation,
How Six Youths Used Online dating App To Lure Lgbtq+ Man From Imo To Nasarawa, Robbed Him | #AbnTv
Detectives attached to the Nasarawa State Police Control have arrested six youths who specialise in using gay dating app to lure victims into their traps and then steal them of their valuables and money. The six suspects who were arrested in connection with the alleged act are Sunday Michael, Luka Musa, Pleasure Sunday, Elijah Ishaya, Agada Sandra, and Abdulrahman Tijani. The suspects, after their arrest, confessed to having lured eight victims via the same mode of operation and have made N1 million from their victims at different times.
Confessional statement
The leader of the gang, Sunday Michael, an indigene of Benue Express, said he was searching for information online when he came across the gay dating apps and decided to make apply of it. He said that it was poverty that pushed him into it. “I then activated the app and started using it and my aim was to exploit it to lure same-sex attracted men across the region to Nasarawa State with the purpose of robbing them and collecting their valuables.”
He said he had robbed and stolen valuables of several gay men who have visited him in Nasarawa State and then
A 22-year-old Texas man deeply interested in a plot to use Grindr to kidnap and rob gay men has been sentenced to 23 years in prison
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- A Texas man involved in a Grindr plot to kidnap and rob Grindr users has been sentenced.
- Daniel Jenkins is the last of four men to receive a sentence for the scheme, which began in 2017.
- The four lured at least nine Grindr users to their apartment and held them at gunpoint at an ATM.
A Texas man has been sentenced to more than 23 years in prison for targeting, kidnapping, and robbing gay men, according to the Department of Justice.
Daniel Jenkins, 22, is the last of four men to be sentenced. He and the other three men were committed in a 2017 plot to "lure" at least nine Grindr users to their apartment, where they held them at gunpoint, the DOJ release says. The Grindr users, under duress, then drove to nearby ATMs to withdraw cash from their accounts.
They created fake Grindr profiles to attract "men they perceived to be queer
New wave of homophobic attacks targets users of same-sex attracted dating apps like Grindr
Josh is lying on a footpath, curled up into a ball, his brain covered with his hands as three men lay into him with metal bars.
"Am I going to make it out of here alive?" he remembered thinking. "What's going to happen?"
He managed to earn up but stumbled a few times after receiving blows to his head.
The men were laughing at him. One of them was filming.
"They were calling me a paedophile," Josh, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, told 7.30.
Josh was so badly beaten he almost ended up in intensive care.
"Apparently I had lost so much blood that my blood pressure had dropped so short they were considering taking me to ICU."
It was spring 2024 in Melbourne's bayside suburbs. Josh's Saturday night had turned into the early hours of Sunday morning. Like many men on the hook-up app Grindr, he had been "looking".
Josh, now in his 30s, has used Grindr since he was 18.
He started chatting to a user whose profile had three face pics, unlike the others, and "filled-out" details.
"In the past I've us
Gay Brazilians targeted in deadly stickups, lured by dating apps
CAMBUQUIRA, Brazil — It was June 12, Lover’s Day in Brazil. Leo Nunes, 24, had spent a few days talking to someone he met on Hornet, a well-liked gay dating app, before arranging their first encounter in Sao Paulo’s middle-class Sacoma neighborhood.
A security camera captured the moment that two men on a motorcycle showed up in the street where he was waiting, grabbed his phone and shot him dead.
The Nunes family, who common details of the investigation with Reuters, said one suspect had been arrested. Sao Paulo police said they are investigating the shooting as a robbery resulting in a homicide, but did not provide further information or verify if there had been an arrest.
Nunes was one of at least five gay men killed since March 2024 after planning encounters through dating apps in Brazil, according to news reports. Dozens more victims have described on social media suffering armed robberies after being lured by fake profiles on gay dating apps.
Police have also warned of “love cons” involving straight men lured into kidnappings, without providing figures.
The string of murders and assaults has shaken the queer