'There's A Fake Me On Hinge Scamming Matches Out Of Money. No, Really'

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The moment Grazia's beauty editor AnnieVischer found out her identity was being used as part of a Hinge scam, and what happened next...

There's a fake me on Hinge being used to scam people out of money and there's not a lot I can do about it. Now don't get me wrong, my quarrel here is with the lowlife that wasted minutes of their life creating this fake account, not with Hinge. I used to love Hinge in fact. It was the most aesthetically pleasing dating app around, minimalist chic I'd call it. It let me indulge my pickiness and filter my man feed like nothing else.

This gem of a human being attached a screenshot of said profile and the conversation. Fake Me's narrative? I'm dog-sitting for a friend minus food or any means of payment - a modern damsel-in-distress style cry for dollar. Next I emailed Hinge's customer support for help and waited. As the day wore on, more messages came in. Three more wiley gentlemen alerted me to the suspicious account via Instagram DM and one contacted me on Facebook Messenger asking why I had suddenly gone quiet and passing on his number. I replied to everyone asking them to report the page, notified the telephone-number-proffering gent of the fake account and got on with my day.

 

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