Friday, Mar 29, 2024 | Last Update : 01:45 AM IST

  Life   More Features  09 Dec 2017  Tinder swindler who made false cancer claims gets prison

Tinder swindler who made false cancer claims gets prison

AP
Published : Dec 9, 2017, 5:00 pm IST
Updated : Dec 9, 2017, 5:00 pm IST

One victim was especially vulnerable because she was herself a cancer survivor.

The man claimed he urgently needed money for cancer treatments for relatives. (Photo: Twitter/Tinder)
 The man claimed he urgently needed money for cancer treatments for relatives. (Photo: Twitter/Tinder)

A man who swindled his Tinder dates out of $49,000 has been sentenced to two to six years in prison.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. says Brandon Kiehm (keem) used a variety of scams on at least three women he met through the dating app.

He claimed he urgently needed money for cancer treatments for relatives — in one case his sister, in another, his mother.

Vance says one victim was especially vulnerable because she was herself a cancer survivor.

He conned one woman while he was out on bail.

Kiehm also stole $13,000 from a man who hired him as a dog walker and $800 from a neighbor.

He was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in October to grand larceny, identity theft and scheme to defraud.

Tags: tinder, tinder swindler, dating, cancer, manhattan, grand larceny, identity theft, scheme to defraud