Hyderabad: Music director blackmailed with morphed video

Hyderabad: A young music director, who got friendly with a stranger on Facebook, has now approached the police, saying he got a nude video call from the woman, after which strangers threatened and extorted money from him using morphed videos. According to the police, the victim, a resident of Krishna Nagar in Jubilee Hills, had […]

Hyderabad: A young music director, who got friendly with a stranger on Facebook, has now approached the police, saying he got a nude video call from the woman, after which strangers threatened and extorted money from him using morphed videos.

According to the police, the victim, a resident of Krishna Nagar in Jubilee Hills, had become friends with an unknown person posing as a woman on Facebook last October and they both started chatting. The victim shared his mobile phone number with her, after which he received a nude video call on his WhatsApp number from an unidentified woman.

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From then on, according to the police, the musician was being harassed and threatened using his morphed videos with the fraudsters extorting money from him. Based on a complaint, the Jubilee Hills police have booked a case and are investigating.

Youngster extorted using morphed video

In another similar incident, a youngster lodged a complaint with the SR Nagar police alleging that unidentified persons used his morphed videos and extorted money.

The 29-year-old complainant from Yellareddyguda received a video call from an unknown number on WhatsApp on Tuesday and he answered it. The call continued for a few minutes and got disconnected.

Sometime later, he received an obscene video allegedly with his morphed face with a demand to give money, failing which the video would be shared to his family and friends.

Fearing consequences, he transferred nearly Rs.50,000 online to a mobile number. As the demand continued, he approached the police. The case is being investigated.

 

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