Daily News | She met her dream guy on Hinge, then got scammed out of $450,000
A wine trader from France, he’d moved to West Philly just a few years ago, he said. He had a killer smile and an even better body — he clearly spent a lot of time at the gym. His name was Ancel Mali. And shortly after they moved the conversation to WhatsApp, he deleted his Hinge profile. He said he wanted to focus on her.It was January and for months, Datta, a 37-year-old director at a multinational tech company in the Philly suburbs, had been on the apps.
Cryptocurrency investment fraud is the fastest growing kind of investment fraud, according to the FBI’s Internet Crimes Complaint Center , with victims reporting losses of $2.57 billion last year, nearly tripling from 2021. Last year, more than 800 people in Pennsylvania reported being victimized by cryptocurrency scams, losing a total of nearly $55 million,“I guess I’m a ‘pig,’” Datta said with a laugh in an interview last month, a few weeks after she realized she had been scammed.
They made plans to meet when she returned from a family visit to Pune, India. In the meantime, he convinced her to give crypto trading a shot. He would teach her his ways. He texted, “You can use the money you earn to treat me to dinner.” In late January, Mali said he couldn’t meet because he had a business trip to San Francisco. By then, she had turned a $6,000 investment into $9,000. Between messages about crypto, they talked about the vegan meals she was cooking, sent selfies and flirty emojis, and cooed over photos she sent from the cat shelter where she volunteered.
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