Surat: Investing various cases of men being blackmailed over their clips of stripping during video calls, police have found that no women were directly involved in these scams.
The accused downloaded videos of women getting undressed and then used the same during the video calls as they lured the victims to strip, police officials said.
During the investigation of a Bardoli municipal councillor’s complaint, the local crime branch of Surat rural police nabbed one person who confessed about this modus operandi.
The accused told the cops that he doesn’t know the woman and that he had downloaded the video to trap the victims.
“Our investigations revealed that only men are involved in such rackets.
The accused used downloaded videos of women to encourage the victims to undress,” said Rajkumar Pandian, additional director general of police, Surat range.
However, the entire trap is designed and executed in such a way that the victim gets the impression that he is chatting with a woman, the cops said.Police arrested Salim Saiyed, 24, a resident of Chiprada in Alwar district of Rajasthan.
He is part of a gang, which has five other members who are yet to get arrested.
The gang created fake facebook pages in the name of women and sent friendship requests to the targets.
If the requests were accepted, they started to chat over messenger and later asked the victim for his Whatsapp number.Over Whatsapp chat the crooks lured the victims to have video sex and used downloaded video of woman stripping to lure the victim to do the same.
As the victim undressed over a video call, the accused recorded the video through a screen recorder.
Once recorded the victim was sent a clip of it and money was demanded for not circulating it.“The accused never used to talk with the victims, they used to only chat over Whatsapp or facebook messenger,” said a police official.