Philippine police announced the arrest of dozens of people suspected of involvement in the formation of a gang committing sexual extortion operations online.

Police said the defendants persuaded people from other countries to strip naked in front of cameras, the Internet, or send the contents of their own.

After that, the suspects threatened their victims to send footage to their relatives if they did not pay money.

The commander of the Philippine National Police, Alan Purisima, said 58 people were arrested in connection with an investigation with the participation of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL).

Purisima added that "the way in which depends upon the work of this gang is to create e-mail account on the social networking sites in order to attract potential customers, especially men living abroad."

He pointed out that these accounts often rely on display pictures of Asian women enjoy gravity, and claim that they are owners of those accounts.

He said Purisima "After the (stage) acquaintance with the victims, call them and Atheronhm to make a video call and a sexual relationship online, which is recorded without the knowledge of the victim."

And then uses this section to blackmail the victim to pay a sum of money between $ 500 and $ 2,000, according to Purisima.

A statement issued by the Interpol that "those accounts being operated from offices is very much like call centers companies, and gets delegates on training courses and additional incentives include free holiday, and cash, and cell phone case to achieve the financial goals required of them."

Team work

The director of the Centre for e-crime INTERPOL, Sanjay Firmani, the size of the network was "very significant."

Firmani added that "the crimes and the victims are not from a single country, so it has become cooperation in the investigation is necessary."

He stressed a senior Scottish police that a teenager committed suicide after he was blackmailed online by this gang.

According to a police official in Hong Kong, named Louis Kwan, the number of victims of this type of extortion in the region amounted to about 530 people, most of them aged between 20 and 30 years.

Kwan added that some of the victims paid the sums amounted to 15 thousand dollars to maintain the privacy of materials imaged them and prevent their publication.

The official pointed out that others had told the police, and that in cases where they could not continue to pay those amounts.

The commander of the Philippine National Police, Alan Purisima, said officials from the United States, Hong Kong, and Interpol, Scotland, Singapore and Australia began last year to form a working group, which enables the rhythm of that gang.

The sex over the Internet has become a developing trade in the Philippines, where high rates of poverty and the presence of the proportion of those who speak English well.

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