A student recently fell prey to a sextortion racket, as a report in this paper highlighted. The young man shared his number on a dating site after which she received a video call from a woman making inappropriate gestures. Soon after, the harassment started.

He was threatened that a recording of the video call will be made public. He started paying his blackmailers, after which the demands escalated. It was after he had parted with a substantial sum, and ran out of money that he approached his father. They lodged a police complaint.