‘Tinder Swindler’ reported to gardaí: Man in Dublin targeting women for money using popular dating app

The same man is also alleged to have blackmailed a woman he was dating after he encouraged her to send him nude pictures.

The man, who goes by two different names, claims to be a graduate of Oxford University and owns various businesses.

 He brags about being "very wealthy" to women he meets on dating apps before asking them to transfer him money after losing his bank card, damaging it or freezing it after claiming to be a victim of online fraud.

Multiple women have reported how they have watched him make a seemingly legitimate bank transfer to their account before they handed over their money.

A TikTok account was first to publicly share the man’s details and its owner told MoS this week that she has been inundated with women telling similar stories since.

The Dating Orange account – which tells stories from Ireland’s dating scene – said: "Since I’ve put up the video I think about 10 girls have contacted me.

"Before that I was told by one of the victims that she had found 20 other girls. I’d say the true figure is hundreds. He has been at it for years."

The Dating Orange account wrote this week: "Ladies if you come across this man on dating apps beware.

"This man is based in Dublin and he no more went to Oxford and is not a company director. Don’t mind any of that.

"I posted a video about this man scamming a girl in 2023 and it turns out this man has scammed about 20 other women and he’s still at."

She told her followers the man is targeting "more vulnerable women" after moving on to more "niche dating apps" when he was publicly named as a scammer.

"This predator is back. He scammed another lovely girl out of a lot of money. He’s moved onto very niche apps since he was outed on TikTok."

The first report of this man scamming women dates back eight years, and reports are continuing to come in this week about his alleged activities. One woman scammed this year told how she lent him money after he pretended to make a bank transfer to her account.

"Long story, same as the others. He told me he owned businesses and was loaded. Said he left his card at home and would transfer me the money.

"We went for drinks and he kept pretending to make bank transfers, but said they wouldn’t come through instantly as he was with a UK bank.

"The following day he sent me fake proof of payment."

Another woman told how she was ‘embarrassed’ to share her story, but it is the "responsible thing to do".

"I was also scammed by him. I met him on a dating app, he seemed really nice while we were chatting and in the middle of chatting he mentioned being scammed online and he was on to his bank to cancel his cards.

"Then the following day he said he had no access to money and was running out of petrol and food.

"We had another date planned and I thought he was really nice so I offered to help."

The man mostly targets women on first dates, but has also begun relationships with others who he went on to blackmail according to the Dating Orange account.

"He pushed one woman to send nudes of herself and unfortunately," she did.

"Unfortunately, he used the nudes to blackmail her and told her she’d have to go to a pub in Tallaght to give him €500 or they’d be leaked."

The woman took a male friend with her who took his phone and deleted the pictures.

* This article was originally published on Extra.ie