A 19-year-old student of Keta Business College will spend the another 30 months behind bars for leveraging on the bare photos of a assumed partner to dupe the last mentioned.
The convict, Obed Dzorgbenyui Adehe, masked himself as a female nurture from the Ho Specialized College on Facebook and succeeded in duping his casualty.
Online relationship
Adehe’s casualty – too male and a Ghanaian based within the Joined together Kingdom (UK), who at the time thought Adehe was female, exchanged contacts and begun an online relationship with the convict.
Agreeing to state prosecutors, within the course of the relationship, Adehe furtively recorded the exposure of the casualty amid a WhatsApp video call.
To begin with request
Adehe afterward contacted the casualty with another phone number asking him to pay an sum of $833.33 in Bitcoin in arrange to erase the video he had as of now distributed on social media.
The prosecutor, Collaborator Administrator of Police (ASP) Fuseini Yakubu told the Accra Circuit Court where Adehe was arraigned that out of fear, the casualty paid GH¢5,020 in two tranches.
The primary sum, GH¢2,000 was paid on April 24 last year and the moment, GH¢ 3,020 was paid on April 27 by means of an MTN versatile number.
More demands
Not fulfilled, Adehe once more undermined the casualty to purchase him an iPhone 11 Professional, “else he will distribute the bare video”.
It was after this request that the casualty chosen to gather the mettle to report the case to the Cybercrime Unit of the Criminal Examinations Office in Accra.
This driven to the capture of Adehe at Tema and his iPhone XR phone utilized in communicating with the complainant was recovered for legal examination.