Man in SG gets 3½ years’ jail for tricking 34 teen girls into sending him nude photos


The court heard that Tan began browsing Instagram extensively in October 2017 to look for girls he found attractive. When he found someone he liked, he retrieved the girl's e-mail address from her Instagram profile and offered her a job as an influencer. — Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash.

SINGAPORE: A man tricked 34 girls, aged between 11 and 18, into sending him their nude photographs by posing as a female agent offering fake influencer roles.

Adrian Tan Jun Jie, 25, even threatened to post some of these photos online if the girls did not have sex with him.

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