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The Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested 26-year-old Ankur Meena from Delhi in connection with a dating app scam exposed two months ago.

The modus operandi of these scams has been uncovered by Midday, which says that women open their accounts on dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, etc, and match with people. Then they ask their matches to meet at clubs or pubs with which they already have tie-ups. The women who bring the men to the clubs are awarded 15-20% of the bill amount by the staffers.

"We learned that 70% of people who want to get married aren't actively joining events or apps to look for a partner. We want to give them a gentle push to find one," a Tokyo government official in charge of the new app was quoted as saying.