Overview
- A 22-year-old cloud engineer from Ejipura reported being blackmailed after a video call with a profile he met on the dating app Happn.
- The chat moved to WhatsApp, where the caller coaxed him to undress on video and secretly recorded the interaction.
- Threats to share the intimate footage led the victim to transfer Rs 60,000, then Rs 93,000 by January 6 to a bank account and two UPI IDs.
- The central cybercrime police station registered a case under the Information Technology Act and Section 308 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for extortion.
- Investigators suspect an AI-generated deepfake was used to lure the victim, have begun tracing the accused, and warned of rising dating-app linked sextortion.