If you’re low
on funds for that big vacation, you could always ask to borrow money,
make a Kickstarter campaign… or swindle a couple of Islamic State
recruiters. It may not be the safest way to make money, but that’s what
three girls from Chechnya, a Russian republic in southeastern Europe,
did. The Chechen girls are under investigation for fraud after
they allegedly scammed ISIS members into giving them money on the
pretense that they would use it to travel from their homeland to Syria.
The ladies got away with $3,300 before being discovered, according to RT
News.
The ISIS members allegedly reached out to the girls’
social media accounts, asking the girls to join the militant cause. The
young women kept in contact with the ISIS members and even sent fake
pictures to string them along.
After the ISIS members wired the
money, the girls closed down their accounts, stopped all communication,
and kept the windfall. The con artists had no intention of actually
leaving the country, though one admitted that she used to consider
joining.
“I don’t recall any precedent like this one in
Chechnya, probably because nobody digs deep enough in that direction,”
police officer Valery Zolotaryov told a local Chechen newspaper.
“Anyhow, I don’t advise anyone to communicate with dangerous criminals,
especially for grabbing quick money,” he added. Wise advise.
The girls’ (totally illegal) stunt isn’t the first of its kind. RT News
reported that sometimes men create fake accounts, pretending to be
females, with the same ISIS-swindling intentions.
The Islamic
State often targets Muslim communities, like Chechnya, in Europe and the
United States to recruit people who are willing to inflict acts of
terrorism on their own soil. Members have been said to use social media
to get a wide reach of followers and find those who will agree to commit
violence. Often women are the ones cheated during these arrangements,
as they are married off to fighters and often become victims of sexual
abuse, Mirror reports.
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