In the Chechen Republic three women have been detained by the local police for allegedly conning ISIS recruiters out of cash.

According to RT, when the young women were contacted over the Internet by jihadis, they decided to play along, telling the unsuspecting militants they were indeed willing to go to Syria to join their cause, but they were in need of travel money to get there.

In the end, the women bilked around $3,300 from Islamic State recruiters before being caught by a Chechen police E unit, which focuses on the monitoring of online criminal activities. Speaking with the Moskovsky Komsomolets, Valery Zolotaryov of the E unit marveled at the novelty of the case.

”I don’t recall any precedent like this one in Chechnya, probably because nobody digs deep enough in that direction," Zolotaryov said.  “Anyhow, I don’t advise anyone to communicate with dangerous criminals, especially for grabbing quick money.”

One of the detained women, as reported by LifeNews, said she was actually considering taking up the offer and going to Syria instead of just trying to pull a fast one on the militants, saying, “Many people I know did go, but I know no one for whom it turned out well.”

The Chechen Republic, a predominately Muslim region of Russia, is a well-known target for Islamic State propagandists. 

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic and a devoted Muslim, recently accused the U.S. and other Western nations of creating the Islamic State. Back in February he took to Instagram to say, as reported in RT, “Today, no one doubts the fact that this group has been spawned by America and other Western countries in order to spark hatred of Islam in the hearts of people all over the planet, to stop the process of mass conversion to Islam.”