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Quirky China: Nude chat scam hits fully-clothed man, woman gives birth in street, and quadruplets thank hospital for lives

  • Scammers told their victim they would send people images and videos of naked bodies with his face superimposed on top
  • As for the pregnant woman, she gave birth while walking from a hospital parking area to the front doors

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A man in China fell victim to a nude chat scam despite not taking off his clothes, and a woman gave birth in mere minutes on the street. Photo: Handout
Alice Yanin Shanghai

A man in southeastern China was blackmailed by a “nude chat” scam despite the fact that he never took off his clothes during the incident.

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The man, identified by his surname Li, was extorted for 110,000 yuan (US$17,200) by swindlers who threatened to send his friends videos of a different naked person with Li’s face superimposed on the body, the Yangtze Evening News reported.
Li reported the incident to the local police in Changzhou, a city in the eastern province of Jiangsu, in late May.
Men are using face skin to dupe people into nude chats before then blackmailing them by threatening to publish the pictures. Photo: Handout
Men are using face skin to dupe people into nude chats before then blackmailing them by threatening to publish the pictures. Photo: Handout
The criminals first contacted Li via MOMO, a location-based chat app. They then convinced him to download their “more fashionable” version of the service. Li said he was aware it could be a scam, but succumbed to his curiosity.
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“I was thinking that, as long as I was not naked, the swindlers could not threaten me,” he was quoted as saying.

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