Porn, Flirt, then Blackmail: This is How Mewat Gangs Are Extorting Crores from Wealthy Men
3 years, 5 months ago

Porn, Flirt, then Blackmail: This is How Mewat Gangs Are Extorting Crores from Wealthy Men

News 18  

Notorious for their criminal craft of ‘tatlu bazzi’ in the past, the gangs of Mewat have resurfaced as cyber criminals, who are extorting money from men by blackmailing them with their private videos. Two decades back, the gangs were known for ‘tatlu bazzi, where they sold fake gold bricks as antique items discovered during excavations. Now, they are running a scam through social media, where they extort money by honeytrapping wealthy middle-aged men with porn clips, the Times of India reported. Posing as women, the miscreants play porn clip and coax the men to indulge in similar sexual activities on video call.

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Cybercriminals now targeting influencers using AI
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Cybercriminals now targeting influencers using AI

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: In a new trend, cyber criminals are now targeting social media influencers, particularly women influencers, by posing as brands or agencies offering lucrative collaboration opportunities. City police Commissioner B Dayananda highlighted how cybercriminals exploit social media platforms by luring influencers with fake collaboration offers. They extort money by warning victims that the content will be shared with family members …

Woman cyber fraudster extorts Rs 20k from engg. student
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Woman cyber fraudster extorts Rs 20k from engg. student

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A 22-year-old engineering student fell prey to a cyber extortion gang and lost Rs 20,000, trapped through social media and blackmailed. On November 21, late at night, he received messages from a woman who made a WhatsApp video call showing nude videos of a girl and instigated him. The fraudsters recorded the victim's nude videos using another mobile, threatened …

Gang behind ‘digital arrest’ busted, 2 held
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Gang behind ‘digital arrest’ busted, 2 held

Hindustan Times  

Punjab Police have arrested two Assam-based men for their alleged involvement in cases of “digital fraud”. Digital arrest refers to a cyber scam where fraudsters, posing as law enforcement officials, deceive victims into believing they have committed a serious crime and must stay visible online until their demands are met, exploiting fear to extort money. The matter came to light …

Police Busts Dating Scams, Arrests 8, Including 5 Women
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Police Busts Dating Scams, Arrests 8, Including 5 Women

Op India  

Eight people, including five women, have been arrested in Ghaziabad for allegedly luring men through dating apps and extorting money. The suspects used dating apps to invite men to meet them at cafes, where they would then take and hold them hostage until they paid the bill. The total amount extorted from the victims is estimated to be around Rs …

Cybercriminals using matrimonial, dating apps to find targets for honey trapping, say police
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Cybercriminals using matrimonial, dating apps to find targets for honey trapping, say police

The Hindu  

Recently, a software employee from Visakhapatnam received a ‘friend request’ from an unknown young female on Instagram. The police found that the accused was a 32-year-old woman from Madhapur of Hyderabad and she was arrested by the team of cyber crime police. Modus operandi Cybercrime Police Station Inspector K. Bhavani Prasad said that cyber fraudsters browse matrimonial sites and dating …

Meta takes down thousands of Facebook, Instagram accounts running sextortion scams from Nigeria
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta takes down thousands of Facebook, Instagram accounts running sextortion scams from Nigeria

Associated Press  

Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to organize, recruit and train new scammers. There has been a marked rise in sextortion cases in recent years, fueled in part by a loosely organized group called the Yahoo …

MHA issues alert on blackmail, digital arrests by cyber criminals posing as cops
7 months, 3 weeks ago

MHA issues alert on blackmail, digital arrests by cyber criminals posing as cops

Hindustan Times  

The Union ministry of home affairs on Tuesday issued an alert against ‘blackmail’ and ‘digital arrests’ by cyber criminals posing as police officers or representives central agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Directorate, Reserve Bank of India etc as part of an organised online economic crime learnt to be operated by cross-border syndicates. MHA said this is …

Delhi man trapped in sextortion, looted for Rs 12.8 lakh rupees
1 year, 2 months ago

Delhi man trapped in sextortion, looted for Rs 12.8 lakh rupees

Op India  

On Thursday, two individuals in Delhi were arrested for extorting Rs 12.8 lakh from an elderly man by threatening to share obscene screenshots of his video call with a woman on the internet. According to police, by the time the man could understand anything, she had taken a screenshot of the call with the victim’s face. “The accused threatened him …

Gang held for running exortion' via loan app
1 year, 4 months ago

Gang held for running exortion' via loan app

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A gang of five interstate loan app cybercrime recovery agents involved in financial exploitation of borrowers after sending them morphed obscene videos to extort money, were arrested by sleuths of Rachakonda Cybercrime Police. Gina provided links containing details of loan app borrowers to Mishra and Pal, D.S. Gina, who is absconding, was consistently providing the accused with a daily …

Threatened to post morphed pics on porn sites, cabbie extorts 24 women; arrested
1 year, 6 months ago

Threatened to post morphed pics on porn sites, cabbie extorts 24 women; arrested

Hindustan Times  

A cab driver has been arrested for allegedly extorting money from at least 24 women by hacking their social media accounts and blackmailing them by threatening to upload their morphed photographs on porn websites. The police said the accused had started hacking social media accounts of women during the Covid lockdown as he did not have any source of income. …

Text, sext, sextort: Inside Entrapment Inc.
1 year, 10 months ago

Text, sext, sextort: Inside Entrapment Inc.

Hindustan Times  

The voice at the end of the landline is urbane and hesitant at first. “As soon as I disconnected, I checked the number on TrueCaller, it did identify him as ‘Senior PI Vikram Rathod’.” A network behind the racket In Pune, that same week, another police inspector, a real one unlike “Senior PI Vikram Rathod”, was investigating the suicide of …

Delhi cyber police busts sextortion racket, 5 arrested
1 year, 10 months ago

Delhi cyber police busts sextortion racket, 5 arrested

India Today  

Five men have been arrested for allegedly extorting money from a businessman on the pretext of blocking the victim’s obscene video on social media. A businessman registered a complaint alleging that he received a phone call from a person posing as inspector Vikram Rathore from Delhi Police’s Crime Branch and extorted money on the pretext to block the complainant’s obscene …

Sextortion racket runs deep in this Rajasthan village
2 years, 1 month ago

Sextortion racket runs deep in this Rajasthan village

India Today  

'Surprise for you', read the fraudsters' online invitation to a 61-year-old man in Maharashtra's Pune. HOW THE SEXTORTION WAS CARRIED OUT Cyber fraudsters trapped potential victims via conversations or video calls on online platforms. Senior Police Inspector Meenal Patil of Cyber Crime explained the modus operandi of online racketeers. SEXTORTION RAMPANT IN RAJASTHAN A 29-year-old man in Rajasthan was arrested …

Sextortion on the rise, warns cyber crime wing
2 years, 2 months ago

Sextortion on the rise, warns cyber crime wing

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: If a friendly woman turns up on your social media or dating site, be alert. Officials say that sextortion often begins with friendship offers, but rapidly progresses to sharing compromising photos and videos in order to extort. "Apart from dating apps, people on social media and messaging platforms such as WhatsApp are also targeted. According to Rachakonda cybercrime officials …

Mewat Fraud Dot Com: Inside the new epicentre of cybercrime, near Delhi
2 years, 2 months ago

Mewat Fraud Dot Com: Inside the new epicentre of cybercrime, near Delhi

India Today  

Gorgeous rocks, vast meadows and rain-soaked fields. THE NEW JAMTARA OF CYBER FRAUD India Today went deep inside what appears to be the new epicentre of cyber fraud closer to the national capital – at Rajasthan’s Bharatpur. #NewsTrack | @rahulkanwal pic.twitter.com/h2JSE0FaZV — IndiaToday October 20, 2022 BHARATPUR’S SEXTORTION MODUS Inside, India Today’s investigative reporters spotted a suspect named Yusaf being …

40 per cent of cybercrime victims are women: Police
2 years, 8 months ago

40 per cent of cybercrime victims are women: Police

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: As many as 40 per cent victims of cybercrimes related to matrimony fraud and catfish scams are women, officials from the cybercrime station revealed. Mobile dating applications and matrimony websites are platforms ventured by catfishers who target victims to extort money, cybercrime officials said. "About 40 per cent of victims are females and 60 per cent are males," said …

Delhi Police busts sextortion racket, arrests mastermind from Rajasthan
3 years, 2 months ago

Delhi Police busts sextortion racket, arrests mastermind from Rajasthan

India Today  

The Delhi Police Crime Branch busted a sextortion racket on Saturday and arrested the mastermind from Rajasthan's Bharatpur district. According to police, one of the victims alleged that he was receiving extortion calls from people posing as YouTube employees. Police seized an SUV purchased by the accused with extortion proceeds, as well as the accused's mobile phone, which was used …

Delhi Police busts ‘sextortion’ racket that blackmailed people using Social media
3 years, 2 months ago

Delhi Police busts ‘sextortion’ racket that blackmailed people using Social media

Op India  

Delhi Police has reportedly busted a case of sextortion and blackmail where the members of a gang sent Facebook requests and lured men and young people by posing as women. According to the Cyber Cell of Delhi Police, the members of the gang operated from Bharatpur Rajasthan using phone numbers issued from Assam and sent friend requests to people all …

Man arrested for scamming people on Instagram by promising high returns
3 years, 2 months ago

Man arrested for scamming people on Instagram by promising high returns

India Today  

Delhi Police's Cyber Cell has busted an investment fraud module named ‘Profit_Mania’ that was scamming people by promising high returns in short period. Deputy Commissioner of Police KPS Malhotra said videos of some social media influencers were also uploaded on the Instagram account to increase the reach and attract investors. He further added, “The CCL was the account holder of …

Delhi Police Cyber Cell busts Rajasthan-based 'sextortion' racket, one arrested
3 years, 2 months ago

Delhi Police Cyber Cell busts Rajasthan-based 'sextortion' racket, one arrested

India Today  

Delhi Police’s Cyber Crime Cell has busted a Rajasthan-based ‘sextortion’ racket that used morphed videos of victims and extorted them for money. The matter came to light after CyPAD of Delhi Police received a complaint in which the victim alleged he had got a friend request on Facebook from a person who also sought his WhatsApp number. After technical analysis …

Delhi: Two men arrested for blackmailing, extortion, posting nude pictures on social media
3 years, 3 months ago

Delhi: Two men arrested for blackmailing, extortion, posting nude pictures on social media

India Today  

Two men have been arrested for extorting money and blackmailing people into posting their nude pictures and morphed videos on social media platforms. Deputy Commissioner of Police Pranav Tayal said that 25-year-old Jahul and 23-year-old Minaj have extorted money from more than 250 people till date An FIR had been lodged against the accused at the Begampur Ploce Station in …

Jamtara 2.0: Are You on Insta? A Phishing Wave is Superimposing Faces into Sex Videos, DMing Contacts
3 years, 4 months ago

Jamtara 2.0: Are You on Insta? A Phishing Wave is Superimposing Faces into Sex Videos, DMing Contacts

News 18  

A major phishing crime wave is on the loose. According to a report by The Indian Express, police say such phishing attacks are becoming increasingly common, mostly by an alleged gang of scamsters who operate at the tri-junction of Haryana, UP and Rajasthan from places such as Bharatpur, Mathura and Mewat. While there is no consolidated data on the number …

Man held with 65 porn clips of girls he befriended on social media
3 years, 4 months ago

Man held with 65 porn clips of girls he befriended on social media

India TV News  

The Kanpur crime branch police have arrested a man who has been blackmailing girls by making obscene videos. "The complainant had alleged that a person named Ankur Omar, had befriended her on Facebook, made physical relations with her and then filmed obscene videos. "Shekhar Suman used to chat with 150 to 200 girls every day. The account which has been …

Gang Made Men Perform Sex Acts Online, Extorted Rs 15 Crore
3 years, 5 months ago

Gang Made Men Perform Sex Acts Online, Extorted Rs 15 Crore

News 18  

Rajasthan Police has arrested eight people in Alwar district who were running an extortion racket. The gang members used to pose as girls online and then threaten to leak the obscene videos of the men who performed virtual sexual acts. A constable of Shivaji Park police station pretended to be a customer and established contact with one of the gang …

Mumbai: Porn movie racket luring women on pretext of giving them break in film industry busted, 5 arrested
3 years, 11 months ago

Mumbai: Porn movie racket luring women on pretext of giving them break in film industry busted, 5 arrested

India Today  

The crime branch of Mumbai have busted a major racket where a porn film production company was involved in making nude videos of young women under the pretext of giving break in film industry. A total of five accused including two men who worked as actor, a light-man and two other women working as photographer/videographer and graphic designer in the …

Hackers demands Rs 10 crore-extortion from Ghaziabad man, threaten to circulate personal details
3 years, 11 months ago

Hackers demands Rs 10 crore-extortion from Ghaziabad man, threaten to circulate personal details

India TV News  

A Ghaziabad man has been asked to pay up Rs 10 crore by a group of hackers who have threatened to circulate his obscene pictures and his family's personal details online if the demand is not met, police said on Saturday. The man from Vasundhara Colony approached police after the accused hacked into his email account, they said. They have …

Indian-origin Hacker, Blackmailer Jailed for 11 Years in UK
4 years ago

Indian-origin Hacker, Blackmailer Jailed for 11 Years in UK

News 18  

An Indian-origin man who hacked into the computer accounts of over 574 girls and young women to exploit them has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for blackmail, voyeurism and cybercrimes by a UK court. Akash Sondhi gained unauthorised access to hundreds of social media accounts, in particular Snapchat, and went on to commit blackmailing crimes between December 26, …

Delhi Police Busts Online Sex Racket, 6 Arrested from Mewat
4 years ago

Delhi Police Busts Online Sex Racket, 6 Arrested from Mewat

News 18  

Delhi Police arrested six accused from Mewat district, Haryana for allegedly running an online sex racket on Tuesday. The accused used to befriend victims on social media, primarily males, and would pretend to be female. Meanwhile, during the video call, the accused would switch on a porn video on another device, creating an impression that he or she is acting …

Mumbai Man Posed as Film Star to Lure Minors Online, Sold Child Porn to International Clients: CBI
4 years, 2 months ago

Mumbai Man Posed as Film Star to Lure Minors Online, Sold Child Porn to International Clients: CBI

News 18  

New Delhi: The CBI has booked a Mumbai-based small time TV artist for allegedly running an international racket of selling sexually explicit content comprising minors from abroad, obtained by enticing and blackmailing them on Instagram, officials said Sunday. He contacted over 1,000 users including minors between 10-16 years of age across the United States, Europe, and South Asian countries using …

Gurugram gang created gay chatting app to rob; 5 held
4 years, 10 months ago

Gurugram gang created gay chatting app to rob; 5 held

India TV News  

Five men arrested on the charge of blackmailing and robbing over 50 senior MNC officials in Gurugram by trapping them through a gay chatting app initially did it for fun, but planned to make easy money once it became popular, a senior police officer said on Friday. Interestingly, police officials trapped the gang by posing as prospective customers and posting …

Man Held in Kerala for ‘Sexually Exploiting’ over 50 Women Online
5 years, 7 months ago

Man Held in Kerala for ‘Sexually Exploiting’ over 50 Women Online

The Quint  

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in Kerala for allegedly sexually exploiting over 50 women he had befriended over social media, by blackmailing them with their morphed obscene photos, police said on Saturday, 1 June 2019. Explaining his ‘modus operandi,’ police said Kumar used to target women over social media and got their phone numbers. After establishing contact with the …

Kerala: Man held for 'sexually exploiting' over 50 women
5 years, 7 months ago

Kerala: Man held for 'sexually exploiting' over 50 women

India TV News  

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in Kerala for allegedly sexually exploiting over 50 women, he had befriended over social media, by blackmailing them with their morphed obscene photos, police said Saturday. Explaining his 'modus operandi,' police said Kumar used to target women over social media and got their phone numbers. He then allegedly blackmailed the women with their morphed …

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