A 25 year old, software engineer from Bengaluru lost Rs.16 Lakh after fraudsters threatened to upload his nude pictures and videos online.  It all started when the youth met a woman named Shwetha on a dating application and she asked him to pay Rs. 2000 through a digital payment wallet. After that, Shwetha provided her friend Nikitha’s mobile numbers to him. Nikitha made a video call to him and he happened to see her posing nude in that call. Later, he realized that the call was recorded and the pictures and videos of himself without clothes were captured by the women. According to a police officer, the girls started using the pictures and videos to blackmail him. The man also said there were two more women, Preeti Agarwal and Sherin, who threatened to upload the video if he failed to pay. The man in his complaint filed on 14th December said, “I transferred Rs.16 lakh through online banking, Google pay and Phonepe between 3rd December and 13th December.” Police of Whitefield registered a case against Sherin, Shweta, Preethi Agarwal and Nikitha under different sections of Indian Penal Code. Investigations are currently going on to arrest the culprits.

In another case, a 21 year old man met a woman through a dating application on 23rd November and the gang used the same method to blackmail him. In a single month, five cases of women extorting money from men after luring them into stripping during video calls were reported at cyber crime police stations. The incident has created huge outrage in social media. Users are trying to create awareness about such gangs.

Tags

• Bengaluru
• Dating
• Application
• Nude
• Pictures

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