Text, sext, sextort: Inside Entrapment Inc.
Hindustan TimesThe 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 a 19-year-old student who had jumped off the 10th floor apartment he shared with his brother. “Ninety per cent of the men who come rushing to us whenever they fall prey to sextortion go away without filing an FIR,” says the Mumbai cyber cell DCP Balsing Rajput. Even as the Khan family defends Anwar, saying, “The phone recovered from him isn’t even registered in his name,” a villager slyly points to an air-conditioned room at the top of the Khans’ home. As luck would have it, I knew exactly what to do in such situations.” “The first rule of thumb if you’re the target of extortion is, never pay,” says DCP Balsing Rajput.
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