{"id":86449,"date":"2026-03-15T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86449"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:25:48","slug":"tinder-swindler-who-conned-women-out-of-50000-claiming-to-be-a-spy-is-jailed-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/15\/tinder-swindler-who-conned-women-out-of-50000-claiming-to-be-a-spy-is-jailed-for-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tinder swindler&#8217; who conned women out of \u00a350,000 claiming to be a spy is jailed for five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1YFkYN.img?w=534&amp;h=679&amp;m=6&amp;x=179&amp;y=83&amp;s=80&amp;d=80\" alt=\"Rodney Roberts, 40, posed as American Paul Smith on dating apps Tinder and Hinge to woo his three female victims\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A romance fraudster who pretended he was a spy for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/mi6\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">MI6<\/a>\u00a0and worked for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/bbc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">BBC<\/a> to con women out of \u00a350,000 has been jailed for more than five years.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/tinder-swindler-who-conned-women-out-of-50-000-claiming-to-be-a-spy-is-jailed-for-five-years\/ar-AA1YESOV?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69b6d8610b9d4da6ad215aff3dad4805&amp;ei=16\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A romance fraudster who pretended he was a spy for\u00a0MI6\u00a0and worked for the\u00a0BBC to con women out of \u00a350,000 has been jailed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Tinder-swindler.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86450,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86449\/revisions\/86450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}