Swipe Right For Wrong: 5 Tinder Tales That Make You Say 'WTF'

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Finding love online or via social media use to be a taboo thing to do — but these days, it’s the main way to go about looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right. A 2017 study shows that 19% of brides said they met their spouses online. The same study claims that couples who meet online tend to get married much sooner in their relationships than couples who meet offline.

“Dating websites often fast track committed relationships because when two compatible people meet and discover they want the same things, there’s no reason to hit the brakes.”

But just like with most things in life, there’s a dark side to online dating. It use to just be that folks would get catfished by someone totally different from who they thought they were getting to know. Nowadays, using a dating app means running the risk of getting scammed out of your coins.

Just last month, a man by the name of Shimon Hayuk was exposed as the “Tinder Swindler” after he allegedly defrauded several women he met on Tinder out of millions of dollars by pretending to be the son of billionaire Lev Leviev. The Times of Israel reports:

“Hayut apparently used a Ponzi scheme to fool his dates: using funds fraudulently obtained from other women, he’d invite them on private jet flights and take them to lavish hotels and dinners to sell his story. He also used other people to make his claims more believable, and surrounded himself with a fake bodyguard, business partners and more.”

Hayut is currently wanted in three countries on fraud charges. However, authorities still have found him. Shimon isn’t the first, last or only person to use fraudulent information to scam folks into doing things they don’t want. When you hear about these horrific stories in the news, Tinder is usually the main site they speak about. The site has such a controversial history that New South Wales Police Department launched their ‘Ask for Angela’ dating safety campaign after five women were sexually assaulted by a perp they met online.

Not all Tinder dating stories are as dark as the one above, but some of them are. Hit the for more Tinder tales that make you go WTF.

@KingzandAngels27: My buddy isn’t the smartest man. He picked a chick up and drove to a motel. They were walking into the room and she says, “oh shit, I forgot my purse in the car do you mind if I go grab it?” He says, “yeah that’s fine,” and tosses her the keys. 5 minutes later he walks outside wondering where she is and his car is gone.

EDIT: For clarification, yes he got his car back. I think the police found it about a week later. I don’t think she was ever caught though. If you’re in Baltimore swipin’ don’t let her near your keys.

@BaconBaconBaconBits: Went on a tinder date with a “famous” chef where I was taken to a dive bar, where he promptly starting talking about how famous he was. We drank and watched sports, he proceeded to tell me “You’re cute” and this eventually went to “I am going to make you bleed.” He then invited one of his friends to come along. I went outside and he came up to kiss me. I was drunk, so I kissed back. Eventually he proceeded to tell me how he was “being charged with battering his ex-girlfriend, but he totally didn’t do it.”

Eventually when it came time to pay the bill, “he lost his wallet.” Of course, I get stuck with it. “I’ll pay you back.”. (Needless to say I never got a payment). Then he leaned up against me. I thought he was trying to kiss me again, but I looked down, and he was peeing on me. In the street. Peeing. On. Me. I swiftly, being too inebriated to drive, went and got myself a hotel room and a hot shower.

@yellski _: Started speaking to this guy on Tinder a few months ago. He seemed alright, but not my normal type. Regardless, we started speaking for a couple of days. I didn’t realise how stupid I was until now, but I mentioned where I worked.

The night I mentioned my workplace, I saw a guy walk past that looked a lot like him. I hadn’t met him in person so I wasn’t 100%. I forgot about it and a couple of days later, it was quiet in work but my phone battery was low. I said I’d speak to him later before my phone died. Que him coming in 10 minutes later with a fucking iPhone charger. Yes, this might have been a nice gesture if you know, I’d actually met him face to face before.

This was really weird because he said he lived the other side of the city from where I work. I wanted to cut ties straight away, but I thought I’d return the charger after I finished work. He said he would be in a bar around the corner, so when I finished I met up with him, gave him his charger and made some excuse to go home. To my horror, I saw on his Instagram that he’d taken a smiling selfie earlier in the day with the caption ‘I’m now a taken man ;)’. I’d seen him like not even twice. To make it even scarier, for a good few weeks, every time I’d finish work I would see him casually walking past on his own, exactly at the time I finished. Really creeped me out for a while.

@georgeuh: So my brother met a chick on tinder. Took her on a date, ended up bringing her home for night and then that was that. A few weeks later my mother went to the backyard and noticed the door to her camper was open. There was a bunch of clothes and a pair of faux uggs boots that belonged to this chick. Turns out she had been sneaking into the camper at night and sleeping there and doing drugs.

My brother had no idea of this, and my mom called the cops immediately and it turns out the chick had a warrant out for her arrest. She’s still in jail.

@Zikce13: Met up with dude at a restaurant, he told me a story about how his guy friend had sex with their other female “friend” while she was passed out drunk. He got her pregnant and now they’re married. Dudeman said all this with a fucking smile on his face and laughing like it was a meet-cute.

I told him I was going to the bathroom and left out the back door. Poor girl.