The Tinder Swindler And Other Tales of Traumatic Romance

Janice M. Flanders
3 min readMar 16, 2022

Dissecting the webs spun by lousy Lotharios and the women they ensnare.

Photo by Mike Lloyd on Unsplash

A few weeks ago, I watched the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler. The film follows 3 women hoodwinked out of thousands of dollars by the same con man.

What kind of woman would loan thousands of dollars to a man they have not known for long, and on top of that, are…

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Janice M. Flanders

Writer/Journalist. Artist. Environmental Justice Advocate. Social Media Analyst. Friend to the Planet and it’s creatures. I love words, birds, and nerds.