Postman sends woman’s nude images to policeman

Attempt to blackmail former lover falls flat

Apostman landed in trouble when he attempted to sexually blackmail his former lover after mistakenly sending her nude photos to a policeman’s phone on WhatsApp, heard a court yesterday.

An off-duty policeman received on his private phone number a set of nude images and video clips of an unknown woman and messages via WhatsApp in December.

Obviously mistaking the recipient for the unidentified woman, the sender forwarded the indecent clips and photos of that woman, according to records, and threatened to post them on social media. When the woman’s name was seen in the messages, the offduty policeman alerted the sender that he was not that woman and asked him to stop communicating with him because it was a matter of mistaken identity and wrong number.

When the policeman informed the sender that he is a man and not a woman and told him his real name, the sender threatened to post the images on social media and the internet.

The off-duty policeman, thereafter, pretended to be that woman and lured the sender to meet him at a certain place and in the meantime, he reported the matter to the police.

The investigation carried out by Dubai Police’s cybercrime section identified the sender as a 34-yearold Egyptian postman. The postman was summoned to the police for further investigation where he claimed that he had sent the images and clips by mistake. He said he and the woman had been in a sexual affair in Abu Dhabi. He said he ditched her and demanded her to stop contacting him because he wanted to get married.

Prosecutors accused the suspect of attempting to blackmail the woman by threatening to post her indecent images on social media and breaching her privacy by misusing the telecommunication system and forwarding the images via WhatsApp.