Online striptease leads to blackmail and failed ambush

Compiled by MAHADHIR MONIHULDIN, TAN SIN CHOW AND R.ARAVINTHAN

A SALESWOMAN became a blackmail victim after she stripped naked for an online acquaintance she had just befriended via Instagram, China Press reported.

The victim first started chatting online several days ago with the man before she stripped for him during a video call, said social worker Lim Dao Siang.

The man, however, then threatened to release the nude photos and compromising videos online if she did not pay him RM200.

After some bargaining, the saleswoman managed to drive down the amount to RM100.

The 24-year-old victim thought everything was over when she paid her new “friend” RM100 last Friday.

However, on the following day, the man demanded sex from her, adding that he would only delete the video recording and nude photos if she gave in.

The “friend” even told the victim to book a hotel room in Kulai, Johor, for a meet-up on that day.

The victim from Kuala Lumpur then sought help from Lim, who helped lay an ambush at the hotel.

However, the man did not show up, and the victim has since lodged a police report in Kuala Lumpur.

> Sin Chew Daily reported that Taiwanese singer Ella Chen, who is married to Malaysian Alvin Lai, has returned to Malaysia to promote a health product of which she is brand ambassador, at Pavilion Bukit Jalil.

She posted pictures of her enjoying the dry version of bak kut teh and roti tissue with teh tarik on Facebook.

“Malaysia’s roti tissue, here I come! And also bak kut teh – do you like the soupy one or the dry version?” Chen posted.

She also uploaded a picture of her with her son holding on to her left leg.

Chen married Lai in 2012 and they have a son.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.