US citizens travelling to Colombia have been warned against using dating apps in the country after the “suspicious deaths” of eight American tourists in two months.
The US embassy in Bogota said some victims were drugged and robbed after meeting people on these apps.
The incidents often occurred in cities like Medellin, Cartagena and Bogota where US tourism has picked up.
Travellers are being told to avoid isolated locations like hotel rooms.
Criminals use the apps to lure victims to public spaces like restaurants and bars, where they can be assaulted, robbed and even killed, sometimes by the person they meet, the embassy warned.
Remember reading like something like 4 in 5 kidnappings in Brazil are linked to dating apps. Do a video call before meeting, meet on public places and don’t go to a second location on the first date at least.
I dunno if I’d trust a video call either. It would take very little effort to get an attractive person in on the scam to do a Livestream as bait.
Not saying that is scam proof, but is at least some protection against cat calling
I think you mean catfishing…
Your right, get confusing with all those cat jobs
If you’re a tourist on vacation, how many dates are you expecting?
There’s a lot of guys going to vacation to poor countries in hope to get easy fucks.
Then go somewhere where you can just legally pay. Safe and easy.
Really sucks that dating has to be such an adversarial practice these days,
It feels like I gotta be ahead of an unyielding tide of pick-up artists to signal I’m not dangerous and I’m not even going on that many dates.
Every time a space tries to get set up for the purpose of bringing folks together the dicks show up and end up ruining it for everyone else.