A clever Odessa resident extorted money from men, pretending to be a prostitute on sites for intimate dating. Representatives of law enforcement agencies detained the guy under the article for fraud and extortion of money.

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To find gullible customers, 28-year-old Odessa fraudster created a dozen fake profiles of attractive individuals with stolen photos on the site , adding a phone number and indicating that preliminary discussion only on Viber. When clients wrote to clarify the details of the future date, the man began a playful intimate correspondence with them, and then demanded a prepayment of half the amount, and especially gullible agreed to pay the full price specified on the intimate portal. After a series of hot promises, most guys easily parted with the money, realizing that they were cheated, only when the chosen putana did not come to the meeting at the agreed time.

If the client was uncooperative, the swindler set up a meeting in a hotel room rented in advance, and upon arrival demanded money, calling himself a pimp. When the money was in the hands or on the card of the attacker, he left, allegedly for a prostitute, and stopped responding to calls and messages from deceived customers. During such a meeting Odessa fraudster was detained by representatives of law enforcement, who for almost a month followed the underground activities and collected evidence. The police assume that the attacker acted on a similar scheme in 2 more regions, as the questionnaires with the same phone number met on the sites of Kherson and Mariupol regions. Now a pre-trial investigation is underway, and the Odessa man faces punishment under three articles of the Criminal Code at once.