Bengaluru:The cybercrime division of Criminal Investigation Department, Bengaluru, on Saturday arrested three people on charges of blackmailing close to 4,000 men by capturing their naked videos. At least 5,000 sim cards, from which the accused used to run fake accounts and befriend susceptible men, were recovered from their possession.
The National Cyber Coordination Centre in the Ministry of Home Affairs has revealed that the gang had duped as many as 3,951 people across the country. The police arrested the three accused - Mujahid, Iqbal and Asif - from their native places in Haryana.
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Explaining the modus operandi of the gang, the police said the accused used to create fake sleazy accounts on social media in the name of women, befriend men, initiate conversations with sexual overtones and get them to pose naked for video calls. They used to record the video calls and later extort money threatening to leak those videos on failure of making the payment.
Based on the complaint registered on July 22 at the cybercrime police station, the police carried out investigations and arrested three members of the gang, besides recovering at least 5,000 sim cards. Police said these cards were obtained by furnishing duplicate records.
