Ahmedabad: A 46-year-old businessman with a unit in Odhav was recently stuck in a sextistore racket when he received a friend request sent by a beautiful woman on social media.
In two days, they exchanged telephone numbers and video calls made by the woman.
“It was a video call of 15 seconds where the woman said sweet nothing while making a suggestive movement.
In 15 minutes, I received a call of extortion asking Rs 2 Lakh or they would make a viral video.
I haven’t enjoyed any obscurity.
Still, callers Stay blemming and then dropped to Rs 50,000 to close this problem, “Bizman told the cyber police.
Interestingly, when the police investigated this problem, their software revealed that women in the video clip were not a true woman but deepfake created by advanced computer images and technology! In fact, the police in the city of Cyber ​​Cell officials said that Sextitalist seemed to have adopted a new modus operandi – generally calls like it needed a hand, but new technology was even done with it.
The image produced by the computer does the work for these criminals who make deepfake, while maybe voicing this virtual character.
They can also use video clips from porn sites to trap men and adolescents on social media.
Pre-Singh, Commissioner with Police, City Crime Branch, confirmed that it could be a virtual woman produced by a computer that might be used by cyber criminals to lure men in many sextorsions.
Ackets.
“Investigation in the case of cybercrime is always complicated because the defendant is not visible and most of which operate from other countries raises jurisdictional problems.
Even though it is challenging and damaged by limitations, we now succeed in raising the criminals.
We will not leave them in the future too,” Singh said.
In another case of the Sextortion of the 29-year telecommunications executive recorded on video calls with a woman involved in suggestive activities after receiving friendship requests for social media, police investigations found that the woman was no true woman but the product of consuming in digital.
“Scamsters seems to be very use of technology to reduce footprints of people involved in this fraud that breeds that day.
It has been noted that women’s voices on many videos are also changed digitally using software that converts the text into an audio,” said an official Cyber ​​Cell .
It is necessary to mention that 8-10 Sextoration applications were accepted by the Cyber ​​City cell police station.
, Cyber ​​Cell of Cid (crime) and the cyber police station at Ahmedabad Range.
The percentage of cases where the defendant might use ‘cyber women’ can be as high as 60%, they added.
“The best way to avoid such a case is not to accept friendship requests from unknown people on social media.
Profile images can also be false,” said an investigation.