NUDE VIDEO CALL SCAM TO BLACKMAIL, SEXTORION EXTORTION, 2021

Accepting random Facebook requests from unknown persons can land you in trouble. Some gangs have devised a modus operandi to befriend people online and later engage them in video calls where an adult clip is shown to them. The gang records the video call which is later used to blackmail the victim and demand money. The, victims were engaged in a brief chat and guided to a video call over Messenger or WhatsApp. During the call, the victims were shown an, adult clip and their video call was simultaneously recorded. After some time, they got, extortion calls in the name of the offensive video made from the captured video chat. Amounts ranging from two to thirty thousand rupees were demanded. Some of the victims succumbed to those demands before reporting them to the, police.