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Miami-Dade County The man set ablaze claims the incident happened after the suspect asked him for $60 to help fix her car; she, however, claims she was being sex trafficked. A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly set fire to her Tinder date and his car, which was "engulfed in flames." But Destiny Lenai Johnson, 25, and the man in question tell two very different stories when it comes to what went down during the November 25th incident. According to an arrest report, via Local 10, the two connected on Tinder and met up in person for the...

A married rabbi from New York City has been arrested in Israel for 'rape by deception' after his double life as a secular dating app Romeo was exposed. Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Paryzer, 35, has been criminally charged for using a false identity to get women to have sex with him - with one of the relationships lasting more than seven years. The father of two allegedly used fake names such as Jake Segal to set up online dating profiles on sites like Tinder and Bumble and dated many of the women simultaneously. Two of the women he allegedly fooled filed...

A recently divorced woman lost her entire 401(k) savings to a scammer she met on Tinder who convinced her to invest in cryptocurrency — the latest “pig butchering” scheme targeting lonely people. Rebecca Holloway, 42, a mother-of-three, said she was swindled out of $100,000 by a scammer claiming to be a French entrepreneur named “Fred” after the two matched on Tinder in March, the Daily Mail reports. She added: “Looking back, the signs are so obvious. But at the time you want to believe it’s real.” The scam that hit Holloway is the latest example of “pig butchering,” a term...

A Muslim dating app which was told to change its name over similarities to Match.com has lost its appeal.The Court of Appeal upheld a June 2022 ruling that the average consumer would have thought Muzmatch - now Muzz - was part of Match Group, which also owns Tinder. Muzz has criticised the ruling, calling the legal action "deeply worrying for other start-ups in the dating sector". Match Group said it was pleased the court ruled in its favour.

….. Exactly what the idea will entail is hazy, but it seems overwhelmingly likely that it's basically a way for people with lots of money but zero charisma to try to get ahead — a gross way to bring the concept of "pay-to-win" to an area of the internet that's already plagued with harassment, particularly for women. To be fair, it's still unclear when or if the company will ever roll out the feature. One obstacle: getting it out of the door without seriously pissing off the rest of the user base might prove tricky. Tinder's parent company Match Group...

“I can’t believe how boring the guys are in this town,” a San Francisco friend of mine messaged me after seeing my Tinder Live show at Cobb’s Comedy Club as part of SF Sketchfest. I created my show Tinder Live with Lane Moore nearly 10 years ago now because the first time I used dating apps I was struck by how many absolutely wild profiles I’d seen, particularly from men. I’ve toured the world and written a book about how to be alone (if you want to or if you don’t), as well as one coming out in April about...

Fending Off Weirdos on Dating Apps? Tinder Now Lets You Go Incognito (Cannot be posted.)

Paul Nguyen, 27, died Thursday in Medellín in what his sister, Amy Nguyen, described as “a cruel and senseless crime” in a GoFundMe created to help the family bring Paul’s body home. According to a report in Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, Nguyen had met a woman on the dating app Tinder and joined her at a nightclub. He then went missing, Amy Nguyen said, and “just a few hours later,” his body was found next to some garbage receptacles, El Comercio reported. On Reddit, Amy Nguyen said the family believes “that he was going out with this girl and was...

first started using dating apps in 2016, when I found myself newly separated. Having been in a relationship with my now ex-husband for almost 10 years, I found dating had completely transformed in the decade I'd been out of the game. It was now all about "the apps": Tinder and Bumble were now the place to go to get a date. I know I'm not the only millennial who has emerged into this new landscape after a long-term relationship and could have really done with a map to navigate it—or at least a friendly guide. Instead, I embarked on three...

A Colorado woman has been arrested after she allegedly duct-taped her naked Tinder date, choked him and slashed him with a knife — before ordering food from DoorDash. Lauren Marie Dooley, 22, was hit with multiple felony charges last week over the bizarre attack on her 21-year-old date inside her apartment in Colorado Springs, a newly released affidavit says. Dooley is accused of enticing her date, whom she’d only just met on the dating app, to remove his clothes before allegedly performing oral sex on him on the couch, according to the affidavit obtained by WKRC. She then allegedly used...

An unidentified woman with 22 Tinder notifications on her cellphone has been busted on board a flight — all while presumably sitting next to her husband and kids. The naughty notifications were spotted by a fellow plane passenger named Karima, who filmed footage of the frisky phone screen and posted it to TikTok. Karima’s clip quickly went viral, clocking more than 4.4 million views, with many speculating about the state of the mystery woman’s marriage. “Watching a girl chilling on the plane with her husband, kids, a wedding ring, and 22 tinder notifications,” Karima captioned the clip, which showed her...

Suzy Weiss is a 27-year-old journalist who is bright, thoughtful, and very lonely. She’s also wondering why Tinder and other apps like it have failed members of her generation.Writing at her older sister Bari’s Substack “Common Sense,” Suzy claims in an article called “Generation Swipe,” that “Tinder promised it would revolutionize romance.” So far, however, it appears to have failed not only her, but her peers as well. And she wonders why.Part of the problem can be found in the first paragraph, however:“Every generation thinks they have it the hardest when it comes to finding love, but it’s hard to...

Allegedly murdered Jerry Smith after the pair had sex A Virginia Tech football player begins his trial today for the alleged murder of a homosexual, cross-dressing man named Jerry Smith. Montgomery County prosecutors accused Isimemen Etute (pictured) of murdering Smith, a 40-year-old homosexual man who allegedly presented himself as a woman during a Tinder date with Etute. He pleaded not guilty on May 19 to the charge. His trial is expected to take two days, according to the Virginia judiciary database. The county declined to provide a police report because the case is ongoing. Virginia Tech did not respond to...

[snip]..Many would-be paramours reportedly flirted with treachery as they gave away their military positions while forces assembled north of Kharkiv prepared for what appeared to be an imminent attack, according to Ukrainian military intelligence officials. “One muscular guy posed up trying to look sexy in bed posing with his pistol. Another was in full Russian combat gear and others just showed off in tight stripy vests,” Synelnikova told the British paper. “I didn’t find any of them attractive and would never consider sleeping with the enemy. I automatically swiped left to reject them, but there were so many I got...

When Cecilie Fjellhoy, a 29-year-old Norwegian grad student living in London, swiped right on a 28-year-old supposed billionaire diamond heir on Tinder in 2018, she thought she’d found her Prince Charming. But the supposed dream man, who called himself Simon Leviev, turned out to be a nightmare, an international con man that duped her out of $250,000 and landed her in the psych ward. SNIP Leviev’s profile showed a man who appeared to live a jet-setting life full of stylish suits and designer clothes, sipping cocktails on exotic beaches and attending high-powered business meetings. Fjellhoy had no reason to doubt...

"salacious revelations about Murphy’s life resurfaced in the aftermath after those killings, including something he wrote in 2015 about sharing his “hot young girlfriend” with a “stranger from Tinder.” Just before Christmas, Sydney Watson asked Murphy about it on Blaze TV, and it did not go well. He cursed her and attempted to intimidate her for bringing up the incident."

Dr. Anthony Fauci is “strongly” warning against hugging and kissing your friends and loved ones on New Year’s Eve this year. Fauci also told people to avoid large gatherings during the White House COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday. “If your plans are to go to a 40- to 50-person New Year’s Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a happy new year, I would strongly recommend that this year we do not do that,” Fauci said.

A Virginia Tech football player allegedly beat a man to death after he pretended to be a woman online to seek a sexual relationship with the player. 40-year-old restaurant worker Paul Smith was found beaten to death in his apartment on June 1. Police later arrested 18-year-old Isimemen Etute and charged him with second degree murder. Prosecutors say that Etute had met up with Smith one time for oral sex after meeting him on the dating app Tinder. They allege that the second time the two met on May 31, Etute discovered Smith was a man and not a woman...

A Virginia Tech linebacker allegedly stomped his Tinder date to death after he discovered the woman named 'Angie' he's had oral sex with was actually a man. Ismemen David Etute, 18, was charged in the death of Blacksburg restaurant manager Jerry Paul Smith after allegedly punching and stomping the 40-year-old multiple times on May 31. Etute matched with Smith on Tinder but Smith's profile indicated he was a woman named 'Angie,' Etute's attorney James Turk told DailyMail.com

The largest dating apps in America are teaming up to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. The move is to support President Biden's goal of getting 70% of adults at least one coronavirus vaccine shot by July 4. These companies join organizations across the country that have stepped up by offering incentives and information to help Americans get vaccinated. Getting vaccinated has been shown to help people in the romance department. Those vaccinated are getting 14% more matches than those who aren't, according to research from OKCupid. Dating apps are announcing Friday that they will offer a variety of features such...