Man Sentenced to Prison for Dating App Scam in France
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A man in Essonne, France, went to prison for one year. He used a dating app to trick a person. He said he wanted a romantic date. But it was not a real date.
The man made a plan. He wanted to rob the other person. They met late at night. The meeting became a trap.
A court found the man guilty. This means judges said he did something wrong. He must go to prison for one year.
The story happened at the same time as another big news event. Hackers attacked French tax computers. The government said this was a very serious cyberattack. Some politicians called it the worst attack in the country's history.
Vocabulary15 words
- prison
- a place where bad people must stay as punishment
- escroquerie / scam
- a trick to take someone's money
- dating app
- a phone program to meet people for love
- rob
- to take something from someone by force or trick
- trap
- a plan to catch or hurt someone
- court
- a place where judges decide if someone did wrong
- guilty
- having done something wrong
- cyberattack
- an attack on computers
- government
- the people who run a country
- hacker
- a person who breaks into computers
- opposition
- politicians who are against the government
- history
- things that happened in the past
- victim
- a person who is hurt by a crime
- sentence
- the punishment a judge gives
- romantic
- about love
Quiz
Answer key
1. Through a dating app 2. One year 3. Yes
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
A man in Essonne, France, went to _____ for one year. He used a dating _____ to trick a person. He said he wanted a romantic date. But it was not a real date.
The man made a plan. He wanted to _____ the other person. They met late at _____. The meeting became a _____.
A _____ found the man guilty. This means judges said he did something wrong. He must go to prison for one year.
The story happened at the same time as another big news event. Hackers attacked French tax computers. The government said this was a very serious _____. Some politicians called it the worst attack in the country's _____.