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Warning of spike in Grindr hookup scams

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Queer men in Johannesburg are being warned about an increase in kidnapping and extortion incidents after the victims arranged to meet men through dating apps like Grindr. Activist, writer and editor Treyvone Moo alerted MambaOnline to the alarming incidents after receiving numerous recent reports from friends and acquaintances – and even having to intervene. “The scam has a standard MO where the user is lured to a location with sex as an incentive.

Once they arrive, they are confronted with three to five men and driven to a remote informal settlement. They are forced to undress, then tied up and instructed to phone family and friends for a ransom amount,” said Moo.

Moo has been personally involved in assisting in three of these ransom negotiations in the last six months. A total of R34,000 was paid out to release the three victims in these cases.

She also revealed that four other cases had been reported to Jeppe Police station in the last two months. In one conversation, a victim described what happened after three men walked into the home of the person he’d arranged to meet. “They started to undress me and told me to call my family because they want money and if they don’t get it they are going to kill me and give a sangoma my head.

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