Three separate extortion cases involving naked chats were reported to the police by their respective victims early this week, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Choi Ian Fai said at a regular press conference on Wednesday.
14-year-old pupil
A local man in his forties took his 14-year-old son to a police station on Monday to report that a woman had tried to extort the teenager out of 800 patacas after a naked chat. He told the police that his son met the woman through his Instagram app last Saturday. Afterwards, they chatted via WhatsApp until the woman told him to switch to LINE where they had a naked chat for about three minutes. The woman then sent a snippet of the naked chat to the boy, trying to blackmail him into purchasing 800-pataca gift card, telling him that otherwise she would make the video public. After thinking about it, the boy told his father about the incident and they reported the case to the police, according to Choi.
19-year-old student loses 10,800 yuan
Meanwhile, in the evening on the same day, a 19-year-old male university student from the mainland studying in Macau reported to the police that he had a naked chat for three seconds with a woman. He downloaded the mobile app Beauty to watch a live broadcast at the request of the woman, and they had the naked chat. The woman then told him to pay 10,800 yuan as otherwise the video would be made public. After the victim transferred the money, the woman tried to blackmail him again so he reported the case to the police, according to Choi.
20-year-old aviation staffer loses US$153.74
A 20-year-old local man working in the aviation industry also reported to the police on Monday that he met a woman through the SKOUT app on Sunday before switching to the Hangouts app for a 20-second naked chat, after which the woman told him to pay 5,000 patacas, otherwise the video would be uploaded and shared to his friends’ groups.
The victim remitted US$153.74 (1,227 patacas) but then called the police.
No-one had been arrested at the time of the press conference, said Choi, who did not say whether the three cases involved the same woman.
Choi urged the public to be careful when downloading new apps when meeting strangers online, in order to protect their privacy and property.
