Chinese national who ran elaborate ‘sextortion’ scheme in Singapore pleads guilty to rape, other offences


SINGAPORE, Nov 28 (The Straits Times/ANN): Using multiple false personas, a 34-year-old married technician ran an elaborate “sextortion” scheme, tricking and threatening five young girls into having sex with him.

Chinese national Lin Rongxin first catfished girls, aged 14 to 19, into sending him revealing and obscene photos and videos of themselves by posing as 19-year-old “Lin Zhi Xuan”.

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