24-year-old Viennese died after a dating scam went wrong

A dating app scam turned deadly in Austria when a young man was killed by a car after trying to rob someone he met online. Police say the 24-year-old from Vienna died when he was thrown from a moving vehicle going over 100 km/h.

The victim created a fake profile on a Sugardaddy site

The victim was having money problems and came up with a plan to make easy cash. He created a fake profile on the dating site My Sugardaddy and pretended to be a young woman named Sara. He used photos of a real woman that he found on the internet.

His 22-year-old girlfriend helped with the plan. She later told police that her boyfriend wanted to earn money without having to do much work. The dating site is where older men pay young women for dates and walks.

The meeting went deadly wrong

The fake Sara profile quickly got attention from a man in his 30s from Lower Austria. They agreed to meet on February 21st at a train station. The man brought €2,000 in cash as promised.

But when he arrived, there was no Sara. Instead, he saw the victim’s girlfriend waiting nearby. She looked nothing like the photos and stayed far away while sending him messages to try to get him out of his car.

The man got suspicious and texted Sara that he was going home. That’s when the 24-year-old victim came out of hiding. He stood in front of the car with his arms out, trying to stop the driver from leaving.

The driver panicked. He later told police that he was very afraid of being robbed and just wanted to get away. He tried to drive around the man, but the victim jumped onto the hood of the car.

The man grabbed onto the roof and stuck his feet near the windshield wipers. The driver could only see the victim’s feet hanging over his windshield.

Instead of stopping the car, the driver kept going. He drove through roundabouts and streets while the man was still on his car. Police say he was driving over 100 km/h when the victim finally fell off and hit the ground.

The driver went home and didn’t call police or an ambulance. He said he didn’t think the man was badly hurt. The victim died from his injuries. The driver only called police the next day.

The driver faces murder charges

Now the driver faces murder charges. Prosecutors in St. Pölten confirmed that he could go to prison for killing the 24-year-old.

Lawyer Sascha Flatz represents the dead man’s family. He said it makes no sense why the driver sped up like that while a person was on his windshield fighting for his life.

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