Engineering students are often presumed to be notorious. And they are. But not as much so as to trick schoolgirls into sharing their nude photos.
This is what Abdul Majid, an engineering student from Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, managed to do. He befriended almost 200 girls on Facebook and forced around half of them to share their naked pictures with him.
Wondering how so many girls became his victim?
According to a report by NDTV, he would first create some fake profiles on Facebook, pretending to be a girl. He would then search for girls studying in reputed and famous schools. Once they would add him to their account, he would get all friendly and casual (pretending he is a girl) and slowly move on to the subject of sex.
After the girls would get comfortable with him (her), he would demand for their pictures. Some of them would willingly share it with their ‘unknown Facebook friend’, whereas those who hesitated were blackmailed. Majid threatened them that he would send the chat history to their parents or upload it on facebook.
The girls would succumb to his demands, seeing no other way to get out.
That’s not all. He would even ask for money, and if they refused, he would tell them that the pictures will be up on porn sites if they don’t oblige.
It was only after 200 girls became his victim, a mother got to know about all this from her daughter and she reported the case to Cyberabad police. Majid is finally under police custody.
Now the important thing to notice here is who were his targets?
They were all teenage schoolgirls, easy catch. At that age, they are relatively very new to the internet and the difference between right and wrong is barely evident. This incident clearly proves the lack of awareness about cybercrime among the youth of our country. People still don’t know about things like cyber bullying and privacy laws.
If the kids are allowed to use facebook after reaching the age of 13, they should also be made aware of the probable pitfalls. If not, then people like Majid will continue to have their way, and cyber security will be thrown out of the window.
