Tinder Swindler: how 'romance fraud' became a multi-billion dollar cybercrime
Radio Davos16 Mai 2024

Tinder Swindler: how 'romance fraud' became a multi-billion dollar cybercrime

The Netflix documentary 'The Tinder Swindler' is a mind-boggling case of so-called 'romance fraud' in which a charming, handsome - and apparently very rich - man meets women on a dating app - gets them to fall in love with him - and then cons them out of lots of money.

Cecilie Fjellhøy is the Norwegian woman at the centre of the documentary whose life was torn apart by the actions of a conman. A survivor of romance fraud on a grand scale, she now advocates for the rights of, and support for, others who find themselves in similar grim circumstances.

We also hear from Sean Doyle, who works at the World Economic Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity, on just how widespread romance fraud really is, why it's a multinational, multi-billion form of cyber crime, and what is being done to combat it.

Links:

Centre for Cybersecurity: wef.ch/cybersecurity

Cybercrime Atlas: https://initiatives.weforum.org/cybercrime-atlas/

Cecilie Fjellhøy's organisation LoveSaid: https://www.lovesaid.org/

The Tinder Swindler documentary:

Related podcasts:

Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

Ransomware and ransom-war: why we all need to be ready for cyber attacks

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