

Later we discovered he went with our phones. The guy left the hotel on the pretense that he was going to pick his friend downstairs and book a room for him.

He went down and ordered different kinds of food for me and my friend. “This guy took my friend and me to a hotel around Ikeja, Lagos. So, we had already discussed that he would pay for our transport fare and extra cash for our keep. Then two weeks after we got talking, he said he wanted to take me out but he would like me to come with a friend because his own friend would need company. He was friendly and checked up on me regularly. “This was not my first time going out with a guy I met on that platform but, this time, it was a bad experience. “We (my friends) didn’t have the mind of meeting a man to marry on this platform because most guys there were either married or looking for a fling or a girl to have fun with. Most times before we go out with these guys (the ones that are bold enough to go straight to what they want, sex) we discuss how much he is willing to pay, when that’s settled, we then meet him. So, what we do is find a guy to date and most of the relationships you find there are usually those with ‘benefits’: the guy wants to sleep with you in return for money.

“It’s a site where you meet guys who are ready to mingle. Later I discovered that most of my friends were on the platform, too. “I was introduced to a dating site, ‘Tinder’, by my girlfriend. According to her, she chose to share her experience to warn other gullible girls about the evil most guys on dating apps do. She shared her experience of how a guy she met online took her and her friend to a hotel and abandoned them there with unpaid bills after running off with their phones. She had met and gone out with several guys on a dating site but her last encounter gave her chills in her body. This was not the first time Ella was going on a blind date.
