Two separate extortion cases involving two men in online naked chats were reported to the police by the respective victims last week, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Leng Kam Lon said at a regular press conference on Monday.
According to Leng, the local victim, in his forties, met a female on a social media platform in the wee hours of last Thursday, after which she invited him to chat in the nude in a messaging app. Leng noted that in less than 20 seconds after they started chatting in the nude, the session ended abruptly and the female then sent the victim a video taken during the naked chat and asked for hundreds of thousands patacas, threatening that the video would be released to his family if he failed to pay up.
The victim then asked for his friend’ help and transferred 270,000 yuan (310,000 patacas) to the scammer’s bank account. Later, the scammer tried to blackmail him again, but the victim finally reported the case to the police on Saturday, after losing a total of 270,000 yuan, Leng said.
Meanwhile, a victim from the mainland in his twenties reported to the police on Saturday night that earlier that day he had been blackmailed after a nude chatting session with an online female stranger. He was extorted out of more than 40,000 yuan, Leng said.
