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In January of last year, the US Embassy in Colombia issued a warning to all American travelers.
Be careful using dating apps.
Here.
They noticed that in the past few months,
there were around eight US Citizens who died in Medellin in Colombia and some of the popular tourist cities because of meeting people from dating apps.
Eight men had been killed in two months.
It turned out that several of these men, after traveling to Medellin,
had met women online and gone on dates before being killed.
The embassy said some had also possibly been drugged or robbed.
Natalie Leung covers tech platforms for Bloomberg and she says not long after the government advisory,
Tinder put out its own warning.
They told people, remember to vet your matches, meet in public places and share with people.
You know where you're meeting your dates and at the end, follow your instincts.
So that was kind of a rare advisory that Tinder put out
because it's almost saying be careful when you're using our apps,
which as a profit driven business, you wouldn't usually see a company do that.