When a few young Chechen ladies peered at ISIS on their television set and observed the men in black pajamas beheading innocent men in bright orange jumpsuits with tiny knives — they didn’t see scary, sniveling, evil crazies.

They saw suckers. They saw money. In their pockets.

And so, allegedly, they acted upon their whims, and are now being investigated for fraud after they conned a few ISIS recruiters into giving them $3,300 for travel to Syria. To join their cause. But, obviously, they didn’t. Instead, the girls kept the cash and ceased all communication with the terrorists.

How’d they pull it off? According to Yahoo! and RT News, this is what they did:

The IS members allegedly reached out to the young women on their social media accounts, asking them to join the militant cause. The women kept in touch with IS members and even sent fake pictures to string them along.

After the IS members wired the money, the “con artists” closed their accounts, stopped all communication, and kept the windfall. They 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 advice.

Catfishing ISIS. This very well could be the answer.