Tuesday December 25, 2012
Barefaced lies haunt clerk
That’s not me: Tan showing two of the fake nude photos of her being circulated on Facebook.
PETALING JAYA: An administrative clerk found herself warding off unwanted attention when “nude” pictures of her circulated on the social media.
The photos, however, had been doctored as her face was superimposed onto someone else's body.
To top it off, the unscrupulous person created a fake Facebook page using the pictures and started soliciting for sex.
The 20-year-old, who wanted to be known only as Tan, said the Facebook page, created using the name “Jessy Serikembangan”, caught the attention of her friends and family in May.
The Facebook page also put up a “price list” ranging from RM200 to RM500 for sex services.
After she lodged a complaint with Facebook, the page was taken down or so she thought.
However, it resurfaced again in August.
“After I lodged a police report in August, the person who created the page put up even more pictures,” she told a press conference at MCA's Public Services and Complaints Department here yesterday.
Last month, a second Facebook page full of fake nude pictures surfaced.
The department's head, Datuk Seri Michael Chong, said that this was the 11th case over the past two years where women as well as two men had their faces superimposed onto pictures of nude bodies.
“Most of the cases were due to relationships that turned sour.
“The boyfriends circulate these fake pictures to discredit them (the women) or blackmail them into getting back together,” he said, adding that women should not be afraid to report the matter.
Federal Territories MCA Youth chief Chew Lian Keng said that he, too, fell victim to irresponsible people who ran his phone number with a picture, implying that he had been pimping young girls.
The attacks happened after he had exposed a sex syndicate.
