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Scammers are now taking things to the next level by posing as law enforcement officers — even worse, News 5 found out some of these impostors are making a profit. In a sit-down interview, Detective John Morgan had to answer a phone call from an out-of-city number. This version of a dating scam starts out seemingly innocent enough on dating apps like Tinder and Bumble. With a quick Google image search and a few swipes right, impersonators create fake profiles and make their next move. After just a few messages back and forth on the dating app of choice, the scammers ask to take things offline. The scammers pose as attractive women or underage girls on the dating apps, solicit nude photos from males on the other end of the conversation and then fake a second identity. They pretend to be Detective John Morgan and claim to be working undercover. They then blackmail the other person for cash or a money transfer. Morgan has received more than half a dozen phone calls from panicked people who were told they needed to pay up in order to prevent criminal charges.