Indian-origin individual in Singapore sentenced to jail for phishing private photographs of females

SINGAPORE: An Indian-origin male, employed within the Singapore Air Drive, was on Wednesday sentenced to 11 months in jail for phishing ladies’s social media login specifics to get their intimate images.

Ok Eshwaran, 26, pleaded responsible to 10 charges beneath the Laptop computer or pc Misuse Act. An additional 21 charges had been deemed for sentencing, Channel Information Asia famous.

From 2019 to 2023, he despatched phishing inbound hyperlinks to 22 victims to get login {qualifications} for his or her social media, cloud server and e mail accounts. He centered victims whom he knew in true life or victims whose intimate visuals had been posted to an grownup discussion board, prosecutors reported.

The identities of all his victims ended up protected by a courtroom buy, which the prosecution requested offered the sexual ingredient of his offences.

Posing as a “helpful netizen”, Eshwaran would ship out phishing hyperlinks to victims with an idea declaring that their private illustrations or images skilled been posted on-line, prosecutors stated.

In some situations, he made use of an internet site to generate attainable login credentials primarily based totally on a sufferer’s social media particulars that he had after which utilized trial and mistake to accessibility their accounts.

The second throughout the accounts, he would trawl by the use of them to see if the victims skilled saved any private images of on their very own. Within the case of 1 specific sufferer, Eshwaran understood she skilled carried out modelling shoots precisely the place she was partly dressed or in lingerie, and desired accessibility to these pics. Extra than as soon as, he additionally obtained unauthorised accessibility to males’s social media accounts. He would then impersonate the account holder and name ladies of all ages whom he assumed skilled an private marriage with the person to request for private pics.

Eshwaran ongoing to re-offend in 2023, even when he was out on bail and already lower than investigation for his earlier phishing assaults.

In January that yr, he acquired unauthorised acquire to the Instagram and Snapchat accounts of his goal, a girl in her early 20s. Instantly after discovering her intimate illustrations or images in her Snapchat account, he ongoing to ship out her phishing one-way hyperlinks to amass login credentials to her different on the net accounts.

On this and different situations, the web protocol deal with employed within the unauthorised accessibility of the accounts was traced to Eshwaran’s home. His victims additionally created legislation enforcement tales simply after realising they had been being staying phished or that their accounts skilled been hacked.