IPOH (THE STAR\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – It seemed like a harmless five minutes of steamy “fun” in front of the camera. But it quickly turned into a nightmare for a 64-year-old bachelor when he learned that his explicit moments were recorded by the recipient.<\/p>\n
Mr Ong Chong Lim, who works as a part-time cleaner, is now being extorted for US$5,000 (S$6,580) in exchange for his recordings to be kept offline.<\/p>\n
Mr Ong’s troubles started on Thursday night when he messaged a girl called Angelina, whom he befriended on Facebook.<\/p>\n
“I approved her request in the day and she asked me to message her on WeChat at around 11pm.<\/p>\n
“She told me she felt lonely and wanted to video call me,” he told a press conference on Saturday (April 21).<\/p>\n
During the video call, Mr Ong said the person in the camera looked similar to the girl in Angelina’s Facebook profile photo.<\/p>\n
He said she started taking off her clothes and posing seductively for the camera without saying a word.<\/p>\n
“She started performing lewd acts,” he said, describing her as “a fair, young girl with a nice body”.<\/p>\n
Admitting that he liked what he saw, Mr Ong said he did not think twice when she asked him to do the same.<\/p>\n
On Friday morning, the girl messaged him again, showing him pictures and recordings of what he had done the previous night.<\/p>\n
“She told me to pay US$5,000, otherwise she would upload all my pictures and videos onto Facebook and YouTube.<\/p>\n
“That’s a lot of money. I told her I could only afford RM3,000 (S$1,012).<\/p>\n
“I’ve been worried sick ever since. I have a lot of family members on Facebook and I don’t want them to see such shameful visuals of me,” said Mr Ong.<\/p>\n
According to him, Angelina’s Facebook account had since been deleted.<\/p>\n
Perak DAP Public Complaints Bureau chief Steven Chaw, who arranged for the press conference, advised the public not to trust strangers on social media so easily.<\/p>\n
“I also urge victims who are facing a similar situation not to give in to extortion because the demand is never going to end,”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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