A 23-YEAR-OLD man who threatened to release nude photographs of a woman onto the Internet unless she paid him $5,000, has been arrested for extortion said police on Thursday.
The young woman contacted police on Tuesday, telling them she had received a number of text messages from an unknown mobile phone number demanding $5,000, or photographs of her naked would be posted online. She had also discovered that her image had been used to advertise sex on a website.
After investigations, officers from the Central Police Division discovered that the mobile phone number belonged to a bystander, but managed to establish the identity of a possible suspect.
On Wednesday afternoon, a 23-year-old man was arrested at Bras Basah Road in conection with the case. He was caught with a mobile phone still carrying the threatening messages; a notebook computer and a thumb drive were also seized.
Further investigations discovered that the man had also threatened another woman in a similar way.
Police said that the man will be charged on Friday with 'Putting A Person In Fear In Order To Commit Extortion'. If found guilty, the suspect could be jailed for up to five years and caned. He has been remanded into custody pending further investigations.
tsk tsk tsk...what are the girls nowadays doing. why did the guy have the girl's nude photo in the first place. who to blame?
The guy is dumb
Dumb fellow. If i am him, i would use a public phone. Mail her a sample. The process should take less than 24hrs and money should be collect.
Stupid. Even nowadays public pay phones come with a designated line number. So tracing the location where the call was made is a possibility. And if that area happens to have a nearby CCTV either monitoring that particular area, the recorded footage can be obtained and a time lapse can be used to determine who the idiot using the phone was at the time of the call.
Thats how they caught that stupid farker who made a bomb threat to changi airport using a public payphone and caught him in record time. Apparently some people don't catch the TV series "24".
hey u can wear dress up with cap and black spec. wear jacket. You happy? track your call. I already say within 24 hrs and limit 4 hrs the whole thing must end. What make you think the police will follow her so closly. If i meet also meet her inside the hotel room.
Risk a jail term for just merely $5000 ??
Want to do for money, might as well make it BIG TIME de mah...... anyway kenna caught oso jail term.....
So how is he going to take revenge on her?
Rape and kill her?