A 16-year-old student fell victim to blackmail after chatting in the nude with a female stranger on a social media app, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said at a regular press conference yesterday.
According to Ho, the student met a female online in the wee hours of Monday, and they started chatting, during which the female asked the boy whether he wanted to chat in the nude with her. He agreed and downloaded an app according to her instructions.
Ho noted that the two then chatted in the nude for two minutes, after which the female sent the victim screenshots of a video taken during the naked chat and his phone’s contact list. She asked for 8,800 yuan (10,400 patacas), threatening that if he failed to pay up, the screenshots would be released to the people on his contact list. The student refused to pay up and reported the case to the police on Tuesday.
2 more face-swap nude photo cases
Meanwhile, Ho also said that two local men were blackmailed separately by scammers using face-swap nude photos of them.
According to Ho, the victims were invited by female strangers on social media last week to download an app to chat, which they did. However, the victims ignored the request from the strangers to chat in the nude in the video app.
Later, the women told the victims that they had obtained the victims’ contact lists and other information, and demanded that they pay up or else they face-swap nude photos of them would be released. One of the victims transferred 13,000 yuan (14,600 patacas) to the fraudster while the other refused to pay. Both reported the cases to the police later, Ho noted.
Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam looks on during yesterday’s regular press conference.
– Photo: William Chan
