How to SPOT A LOVE SWINDLER
Much like victims of sexual assault, women may be too ashamed to report the crime.
Even if you haven’t yet watched The Tinder Swindler, you’ve almost certainly heard about it. It’s one of the most popular Netflix programmes ever, having racked up 45.8 million viewing hours during its first week of release. The true-crime documentary follows the trail of heartbreak and fraud left by a jet-setting romance con artist through interviews with three women he allegedly duped into giving him about $500 000 (about R7.3 million) – a fraction of the $10 million he is estimated to have hustled from people around the globe.
It’s easy to dismiss those taken in by romance scam artists as naive, desperate and gullible, yet what’s so compelling about this documentary was that the women who shared their tales of heartbreak, humiliation and financial ruin came across as sensible, savvy, sophisticated and successful.
The $10 million dollar question is: how were they
