MID-DAY recently highlighted incidents involving women befriending men on dating apps, taking them to various clubs and pubs in the city, running up high bills, and then duping them in connivance with the clubs before leaving. Now a case has emerged wherein a man used a dating app to befriend a woman and blackmail her.

The woman had registered on a dating app and befriended a man. After a while, they exchanged cell phone numbers and their conversations grew more personal. The woman ended up sharing a nude photo of her with the man, who then used it to blackmail her and extort more than R55,000. He then demanded more money, threatening to make the photo public if she didn’t pay him.