Hyderabad: Tech student held for Facebook blackmail
He created fake FB accounts of a girl and targeted schoolgirls from international schools and sent them friend requests.
Hyderabad: A city engineering student who harassed girls using fake Facebook accounts and blackmailed them by threatening to upload their nude pictures was arrested by the cybercrime police on Saturday.
The student, Abdul Majid, who was earlier arrested by the Cyberabad police for allegedly collecting the nude pictures of around 200 schoolgirls by threatening them, started blackmailing girls again after coming out on bail, said joint police commissioner T. Prabhakar.
Abdul Majid, 21, a resident of Banjara Hills, was studying BTech III year. He created fake FB accounts of a girl and targeted schoolgirls from international schools and sent them friend requests.
Some girls used to accept the request thinking that it was from a ‘girl’ and later their chats would become personal. After gaining their confidence he used to ask them to send their nude pictures and if they refused he would threaten to post their private conversations on Facebook.
“He managed to obtain their nude photos and threatened them that he would upload these photos and extort money from them,” Mr Prabhaker said, adding that proposals are being made to invoke the PD Act against him.
He was arrested by the Cyberabad police for harassing around 200 girls. He collected the nude photos of around 80 girls. Majid, who is an accused in six cases in Cyberabad, started harassing girls after coming out on bail.
In another case, K. Babu Rao, a 51-year-old teacher from Guntur, harassed a student from Hyderabad by sending vulgar messages on Facebook and extorted Rs 20,000 from her. He asked her to pay another Rs 20,000 to keep the matter a secret.
In another case, two persons including a woman were arrested for cheating software firms by floating a fake firm named Skill Development Mentoring Services, inviting quotations and asking them to pay one per cent of the project cost as EMD.
Three more persons who were involved in a credit card fraud and five others involved in an insurance fraud were also nabbed. All the accused were remanded by court.