I am just emailing you to let you know about Tinder scams in Saint Petersburg, Russia , so that you can inform your readers so that they don't suffer the same financial expenditure I did! Basically, I met a woman on Tinder back in June who I was chatting with for some time and then I arranged to meet her on Nevsky Avenue for a drink one evening.
I immediately grew suspicious upon entering this bar as it was only around 7pm and the place was quiet yet it had 1 or 2 security guys on the door, plus my instinct was telling me that the staff there knew my "Date" without any of them actually acknowledging each other, and in addition there were a couple of attractive girls sat at the bar alone.
Even though I had these instincts, I still stayed as I had never heard of people being scammed in this way in Russia , or anywhere else for that matter and I am very well travelled. I refused to pay for the wine and asked her to order another drink instead, so she opted for a cocktail which I did not see the price of and the meat tray, whilst I order a reasonably priced beer for myself.
I was getting a bad feeling about the bar still, so I told her I wanted to go somewhere else midway through my first drink, however she was quite insistent that she wanted to stay in this bar. After checking the reviews of this bar on Google some time after, it was clear other people had had a similar experience to me and that this bar was clearly a scam bar.
Anyway, after leaving that bar, the Date wanted to go to another bar just a few doors up from the Secret Service Pub, which again looked quite empty and ominous so I refused and instead we carried on walking up the road until I found a bar that was quite busy and looked safe.
