{"id":220694,"date":"2020-09-23T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=220694"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:42:18","slug":"australian-cons-tinder-dates-out-of-450000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/australian-cons-tinder-dates-out-of-450000\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Cons Tinder Dates Out Of \u00a3450,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Woman from Australia has been jailed after it was revealed to a court that she had conned around \u00a3450,000 from men she met on tinder.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_220695\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220695\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-220695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/810CD1BF-5C88-47E8-AD4C-AC10A97E4539-300x190.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/810CD1BF-5C88-47E8-AD4C-AC10A97E4539-300x190.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/810CD1BF-5C88-47E8-AD4C-AC10A97E4539-600x380.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/810CD1BF-5C88-47E8-AD4C-AC10A97E4539.jpeg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-220695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jocelyn pictured by the media.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jocelyn Zakhour has been jailed for upwards of 4 years after she conned men out of upwards of \u00a3450,000 on Tinder, after saying she needed the money for a blueberry farm.<\/p>\n<p>However, she spent the money in casinos to feed her gambling addiction it was revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The 41 year old seemed slightly remorseful, and cried in court, as she was sentenced to a\u00a0maximum of four-and-a-half years, with a non-parole period of two years and eight months.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>She pleaded guilty to six counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception, three counts of blackmail and two counts of extortion with the threat to inflict injury, after threatening one man\u2019s family after he refused to pay up any more money.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In one message she said: &#8220;Tell your ex-wife you will kill yourself if she doesn&#8217;t give you the money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The victim was initially lured in after she told him he could get 3x return on his investment into her blueberry farm.<\/p>\n<p>To \u201cprove\u201d that the money would come back to him, she bought the man a Rolex. This also turned out to be as a real as the blueberry farm he invested in, and will have only set her back a couple $100 at the very most.<\/p>\n<p>She also partially blamed the victims for parting with their money, saying they were \u201cstupid enough\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n<p>She said to police: \u201cHe knew what type of girl I was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since the incidents, she had reportedly been working in soup kitchens voluntarily, and has paid back around 10% of the money she swindled.<\/p>\n<p>She will have to serve at least 2 years and 8 months before she\u2019s eligible for parole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Woman from Australia has been jailed after it was revealed to a court that she had conned around \u00a3450,000 from men she met on tinder.\u00a0 Jocelyn Zakhour has been jailed for upwards of 4 years after she conned men out of upwards of \u00a3450,000 on Tinder, after saying she needed the money for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":220695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[514,1631,83,71,211,1454,1295],"class_list":["post-220694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-australia","tag-australia-news","tag-australian-news","tag-news","tag-scam","tag-worldwide","tag-worldwide-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220696,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220694\/revisions\/220696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}