Loan-sextortion app: Server managers held in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: Cybercrime police of the city arrested two persons who allegedly managed a server which was used for a loan-sextortion racket. The cybercriminals in this case allegedly extorted money from people who had applied for loans online, by morphing the photographs that they submitted onto obscene images.

The victims would then be extorted with the threat of these morphed obscene images being sent to people on their contact lists. The server was located in Noida, UP, while the app had been uploaded from China.