Initial chats with the men helped the recruiters understand the financial background of the targets. Once the targets have invested large sums of money, they are blocked from the app, losing all of it,” he said.īoth Karthik and Arul said that the targets were found through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even dating apps. “The app appears to show increasing profits, which in turn entices the targets to put in more money. While Binance was an app easily available for download, Arul Murugan, another victim, added that Marathon was developed by their recruiters. “As soon as recruiters saw that the conversation had got to a place where enough trust had been built, they would take over the chat in order to talk the conned men into repeatedly investing in the apps.” Speaking to TNM, Karthik said that these chats were closely monitored by their ‘recruiters’ and the endgame was to get the men to invest money in cryptocurrency and bitcoin apps called Binance and Marathon. Then the chat would move to WhatsApp or Telegram where a fake friendship based on lies about living in Europe or the USA, a love-story of now-divorced biracial parents, was spun. Karthik’s job was to pretend to be either one of these models and chat up men until he built enough trust to give him their personal phone numbers.
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