The police dismantled a local fraud syndicate that was active on an online dating platform and mainly used assisted dating and naked chat to extort blackmail. Four men and women were arrested, including the male leader, the female backbone members, and two puppet account holders.
They pretended to be sexy women on the Internet, falsely claiming to provide assisted dating services. The victim paid a deposit and transferred the money to a designated account in the form of "FPS", and the scammers disappeared immediately.
The scammers will pre-record indecent clips to lure men who are obsessed with sex to release nude photos, and then threaten to publish the nude photos and send them to relatives and friends for blackmail.
The group was involved in a total of 18 cases, all victims were male, and the amount of defrauded money amounted to 420,000 yuan.
All the victims were men, the loss amounted to 420,000 yuan
Wong Cheung Chun, Senior Inspector of the Wan Chai Police District Serious Crime Squad, said that the police had successfully dismantled a local fraudulent group that was active on an online dating platform to support dating and extort nude chats.
After an in-depth investigation, an arrest operation was launched yesterday (19th), and 2 men and 2 women, aged between 19 and 36, were arrested. the crime of acquiring property".
The group was involved in a total of 18 cases, spread all over Hong Kong, and all the victims were male. The amount of fraudulent money reached 420,000 yuan, and the largest loss in one case was 120,000 yuan.
The 26-year-old male protagonist is still being detained for investigation, and the other three arrested men and women have been released on bail pending investigation and must report to the police in late February.
It is understood that the arrested four people knew each other, one of whom was a man and a woman were college students.
Huang Changjun believes that the group has been operating for more than a year, with careful division of labor. Among them, a 26-year-old male leader and a 28-year-old female backbone member pretended to be a sexy woman on the Internet, contacted the male victim, and communicated on the mobile phone app to lure naked chats. , and then ransom with nude photos or videos.
In addition, a 36-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man acted as puppet account holders to handle the stolen money.
During the operation, the police seized 2 laptop computers, 5 telephones, 8 bank ATM cards and credit cards.
The latest crime tactics (Photo by Lin Langtian)
The latest modus operandi: Prefabricated indecent clips lure victims into sending Trojans to steal address books
Au Wai-yin, senior inspector of the Cyber Intelligence Division of the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Investigation Bureau, explained the criminal methods of assisted dating fraud and naked chat extortion. The swindlers will falsely claim to provide assisted dating or sexual services, and induce the victim to buy a prepaid card or buy a bank account before meeting. Transfer money to pay the deposit. When the scammer receives the deposit, he will ask for a larger payment. When the victim is unable to pay more money, the scammer will disappear.
From January to November 2021 last year, the police received a total of 1,655 related fraud cases, with a loss of about 59 million yuan, a double increase compared to the 855 cases recorded in the previous year and a loss of more than 32 million yuan.
In addition, in terms of nude chat extortion, scammers will play pre-recorded indecent clips, seduce victims to distribute nude photos and indecent clips, and then send unknown links, so that victims can download the relevant Trojan programs without their knowledge, and then steal and Copy the victim's address book and threaten to publish the nude photos and send them to relatives and friends.
Compared with the 1,009 related fraud cases received in the previous year and a loss of 8 million yuan, the number of fraud cases in the previous year increased to 1,020 cases and a loss of 12 million yuan.
The police appealed to the public to pay more attention to the modus operandi of the crime, not to easily accept invitations to make friends and believe in netizens who have just met for the first time.
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