Three detained in Gorton as police investigate online dating application scam

Three detained in Gorton as police investigate online dating application scam

By Adam Higgins

Three folks have already been arrested in dawn raids in Gorton today (Tuesday) within a study into 21 circumstances of matchmaking app fraud throughout the part.

Two guys elderly 35 and 41 plus one lady elderly 35 happened to be detained on suspicion of scam offences.

The warrants happened to be executed at three tackles across Gorton as an element of Greater Manchester authorities’s Operation Sunbird, formed because of the power’s professional Fraud researching product.

The fraud criminal activities comprise committed between October 2018 and March 2020 across Greater Manchester, where candidates posed as ladies on online dating and chatting applications to coax folk into spending large sums of cash into a banking account. Continue reading “Three detained in Gorton as police investigate online dating application scam”