Cyberabad police arrested an engineering student who allegedly tricked school girls into sharing their nude pictures on a social networking site. He also threatened to upload their photographs on pornographic and networking websites.
Abdul Majid, 21, who posed as a teenage girl, created six Facebook accounts and befriended as many as 200 girls, according to a Cyberabad police release.
Majid’s revealed to the police that for 18 months, he had browsed Facebook for profiles of female students of reputed schools in Hyderabad and sent them friend requests.
“Majid sent messages posing as a teenage girl and persuaded them to share their secrets, after which some of the girls did so while chatting with him online,” the release said.
Majid also asked them to share their nude pictures with him and blackmailed them with consequences if they refused. He threatened to make public the ‘secrets’ that they had revealed to him over online chat.
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