{"id":551302,"date":"2025-11-05T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551302\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:11:11","slug":"burglars-targeted-victims-in-london-using-grindr-in-callous-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551302\/","title":{"rendered":"Burglars targeted victims in London using Grindr in &#8216;callous&#8217; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022Two men, Rahmat Khan Mohammadi , 23, and Mohammed Bilal Hotak, 21, were convicted of burglary, fraud, and theft after using the dating app Grindr to target victims across London.   <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An organised crime group committed 35 burglaries and 20 frauds between October and March, stealing phones, money, and valuables after tricking victims into revealing their passwords.   <\/p>\n<p>\u2022Police linked the pair to the crimes through extensive CCTV and phone data analysis, with officers and LGBT+ groups commended for their sensitive handling of the investigation; sentencing will take place later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022Two men, Rahmat Khan Mohammadi , 23, and Mohammed Bilal Hotak, 21, were convicted of burglary, fraud, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,16550,45953,16939,176608,257,1413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-551302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-grindr","12":"tag-hackney","13":"tag-harrow","14":"tag-isleworth-crown-court","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-met-police","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115498679236383389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}