Saudi police bust sex blackmail racket
JEDDAH, November 17, 2015
Several men and women have been arrested in Madinah, Saudi Arabia for operating a scam through social media websites where they lured men to apartments, photographed them in compromising positions and then blackmailed them for cash.
The women went to websites such as Keek and Tango, where they made contact with men and set up dates to meet at rented apartments, added the Arab News report, which cited a local publication.
The criminals first lured a man online, and when he arrived at an apartment, other members of the gang would “surprise” him with the woman and threaten to reveal his illicit affair, Col. Fahd Al-Ghanam, spokesman of the Madinah police, was quoted as saying in the report.
Al-Ghanam said the criminals would then take his ATM card and withdraw as much as they could from his bank account, which they would use to buy mobile phones and jewellery. When they returned to the apartment, they would get him to sign an undertaking that he had an illegal liaison, and to promise never to report them.