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Man arrested in Karachi for blackmailing girl on Facebook

He allegedly used the girl's pictures on a fake Facebook account

Our Correspondent November 06, 2015

he allegedly used the girl 039 s pictures on a fake facebook account photo reuters

He allegedly used the girl's pictures on a fake Facebook account. PHOTO: REUTERS

KARACHI: The cyber crime circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claims to have arrested a young man for allegedly blackmailing a girl via the social networking website, Facebook.

FIA officials said that accused, Naveed Ahmed, son of Raheem Dad, has been arrested and pictures and internet EVO devices have been seized from his possession. An FIR No 31/15 under sections 36/37 ETO 2002, read with section 419 of Pakistan Penal Code has been registered.

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FIA officials investigating the case told The Express Tribune that the complainant, Muhammad Iqbal, in his complaint, stated that some unknown person or persons had created a fake Facebook ID with the username 'Junaid Junaid' and uploaded his daughter's picture on the fake Facebook account. He also said the user wrote abusive remarks using the account.

The officials said the user also wrote the complainant's mobile number in the contact sections on the fake Facebook account, due to which he is receiving calls from different unknown people.

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Iqbal said the fake account had dishonoured him and his family among his friends and relatives, forcing him to leave the city. Following the complaint, FIA officials managed to trace the whereabouts of the suspect and arrest him during a raid at his residence in the Korangi locality. This was the second such incident to have occurred within a week, as earlier the cyber crime circle arrested a young student for allegedly blackmailing a girl via Facebook.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 7^th, 2015.

COMMENTS (11)

Mudassir | 9 years ago | Reply On of my uncles in FIA Cyber Branch Peshawar, and yes they do have methods through which they can do the tracing and let me tell you that Facebook does provide security agencies data (such as IP address) if you have ample proof that you can present to them that a certain account is fake and is harming someone else, as my Uncle has told me. When you get their IP address, then PTA provides the exact location.

Jim Jamal | 9 years ago | Reply When you chat with someone on Facebook, the person can trace your IP address. The guy was a script kiddie, glad the n00b was caught.

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Silent Conqueror | 9 years ago | Reply @Thug Life: Facebook let government agencies know the IP address(es) used by an account in certain cases.

Shawn | 9 years ago | Reply I'm so happy after reading this news. hoorah!

Khantastic | 9 years ago | Reply To those wondering, No. Our FIA is flooded with a number of failed engineers and the guy got sacked for his own stupidity. He must have shared his own number. Somebody from FIA could've posed as a girl and asked him for the number simply and then trace the number from CPLC. Unless there is a peer to peer connection, you can not trace the IP address of an individual. There are other ways however, like having the victim go on a webpage you've set up yoruself from where you can just grab the visitor's IP. With enough resources it's a piece of cake somebody like that. There's no rocket science involved.

Machoman | 9 years ago | Reply @Thug Life: As facebook is untraceable, if used dynamic IPs, they may be using honey trap, Creating fake girl account and contacting that person to know further about him...

what | 9 years ago | Reply @I hug life, I had read somewhere that facebook has a treaty under which it can share the required information to pakistan's agencies.

ehs | 9 years ago | Reply good step identity thieves and blackmailers should be caught and punished.

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply Good. That's the only way to deal with these idiots and a word of advice for girls, don't post ur photos public on Facebook

Thug Life | 9 years ago | Reply How did FIA trace him? Like technically traced him or as usual picked someone on Mr. Iqbal's doubts? Does FIA have any resources to track the Facebook or other social media accounts like tracking account's IP addresses etc? Because Facebook does not allow that. So how did it happen. ET don't you have any technical guys to interview officials in such cases?

Bilal | 9 years ago | Reply A very good initiative, This uprising of fake accounts and blackmailing has to stop.

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