Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes
Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes
At least 60 people have killed themselves in India after being extorted by a global racket.
I do not get how people get blackmailed with their own nudes.
Like, who gives a shit? I see myself naked all the time. And now you have as well, blackmailer, so if anything I should be getting money from you.
It’s India not Denmark you dingus. It doesn’t matter if you don’t care, other people care they will ostracize you or worse see it as an excuse to rape you. Like many women get raped in India for simply breaking social norms like traveling without a male chaperone.
I can ruin your reputation or be used in conjuction with other social engineering techniques to eicit fear. It is also very intimate and personal, and shows a private side of your person that may not be intended for others. Examples of threats could be sending them to in-laws, emoyeers, your whole office, the school were your kids attend. Even without any really intention of distributing it, the threat is enough.
Now imagine said nudes being sent to your mum, your employer, your kids, etc, and the knock-on effect it might have on your life.
That is why they pay.
My mum
Well she'd know how my transition is going.
My employer
Doesn't seem professional for my employer to be looking at such things. Shame on them.
My kids
I don't have kids but if they were underage then that's a mail-ordered crate of ACME-brand Yikes bad ideas.
(I want to be clear that, even if I am a Dingus, I'm only one who is shitposting.)
Those weren't nudes of herself, just of her photoshopped on someone else's body.
Do you think a fake bank app would ask for nudes for verification purposes?
Indian society is nuts:
She has been ostracised by neighbours in the community she has lived in for 40 years.
"As of today, I have no friends. It's just me I guess," she says with a sad chuckle.
Some of her family still don't speak to her. And she constantly wonders whether the men she works with are picturing her naked.
A picture of your head photoshopped on some chick's body? Why is that embarrassing for anyone over the age of 13? I would just assume they were hacked. It's embarrassing for whoever sent it.
I cant imagine the pain and suffering this is causing people.
I also dont understand why so many people trust their smartphone or 3rd party cloud services to keep their nudes secure.
The photo was doctored by the collection agency.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across India and other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Astha knew her mother had been getting some weird calls and that she owed somebody money, but she had no idea that Bhoomi was reeling from months of harassment and psychological torture.
Most were in their 20s and 30s - a fireman, an award-winning musician, a young mum and dad leaving behind their three- and five-year-old daughters, a grandfather and grandson who got involved in loan apps together.
Rohan gained Chaurasia's trust, and together with a journalist posing as an investor, arranged a meeting at which they asked him to explain exactly how the scam works.
When asked for comment, Li Xiang told the BBC that he and his companies comply with all local laws and regulations, have never run predatory loan apps, have ceased collaboration with Jiyaliang, the loan recovery company run by Liang Tian Tian and Parshuram Takve, and do not collect or use customers' contact information.
Additional reporting by Ronny Sen, Shwetika Prashar, Syed Hasan, Ankur Jain and the BBC Eye team.
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....This just raises questions about what the article about, it is not a summary.
“Saved 92%” Yeah, and half the story too.