New Delhi: Two men in their early 20s have been arrested for allegedly posing as women on social media and striking up friendship with at least 250 people to extort them.
Police said the duo would make fake profiles on social media as women and draw people into conversation. Once a man would start falling for them, they would ask him to engage in a sexual act over a video call and record it to blackmail him later.
The accused have been identified as Jahul (25) and Minaj (23), from Mewat of Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district. Pranav Tayal, deputy commissioner of police (Rohini), said “A man complained that he had accepted a friend request from a woman on a social media platform. They exchanged contact numbers and started chatting on WhatsApp. After some time, she asked him to engage in a sexual act and recorded it. Later, she started threatening him and asked him to pay Rs 15,000 to get the video deleted.”
After the victim paid her, he got a phone call from another person who claimed to be a cyber cell officer from Durgapuri. He told the victim to get the obscene video deleted from YouTube and other social media sites. When the complainant contacted the YouTuber who had supposedly uploaded the video, he, too, demanded money to delete it.
Using the call detail record analysis and technical surveillance, both accused were arrested from Mewat following a raid, Tayal said. Three mobile phones used to make extortion calls were also seized.
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