This is truly a Tinder horror story.
A man called Brandon Kiehm passed himself off on Tinder as a wealthy Goldman Sachs banker who successfully conned $26,000 dollars out of two women he met on the site.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office issued a press release announcing Kiehm’s indictment, with the DA Cyrus R. Vance Jr noting an increase in the number of scammers targeting singles online.
According to the DA report, Kiehm had been working as a dog walker but had pretended to be a Tristan Acocella on the dating app. He dated one woman he matched with for several months and began asking her for money for ‘cancer treatments’ for his sister. She gave him $14,000.
A second woman dated Kiehm in October 2015 and Kiehm told her his mother was undergoing treatment for cancer so she lent him $12,000.
Both women then received cheques from Kiehm which were rejected by their banks, and New York police have confirmed that none of Kiehm’s family currently have cancer.
He has been charged with five felony counts of grand larceny, identity theft and scheme to defraud.
