Woman officer forgets phone in auto, gets extortion call for ₹60K
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Surat: 09.11.2020
Forgetting her phone in a hired auto rickshaw came to haunt a 58-year-old female government officer from the revenue department in the city who received an extortion threat from an unidentified man who demanded Rs 60,000 to delete her objectionable photos. She lodged a complaint in Cyber Crime police station.
The unidentified person said he will make her objectionable photos viral on social media. The accused suspected to have picked the phone the woman forgot in January 2020 when she went to a shopping mall on Dumas Road in the auto that she had booked online from a cab service provider. She told the police that the phone had her photos and videos. Police have zeroed in on the role of an auto rickshaw driver based on the FIR.
“We have identified a few suspects and after questioning the person responsible for the crime will be arrested,” said a cyber crime police official. On October 30 an unidentified person called her up and spoke in Hindi. After answering one call she did not pick up other calls and asked her son to talk to the man. The son requested the caller to stop the harassment. Later the caller started sending the woman her photos on the Whatsapp threatening to make these viral on social media.
The woman then deleted Whatsapp from her phone and her husband started the app on his phone with her number.
No comments:
Post a Comment