Creeps in Indonesia are apparently going to great lengths to score nude or otherwise incriminating photos from unsuspecting women, as one TV reporter named Dana Paramita says she learned recently.
Dana posted a Twitter thread that went hugely viral this week, having been retweeted more than 18,900 times so far. In it, she shared her experience of almost being tricked into taking a naked photo of herself and sending it to a deceitful stranger.
Hampir pap naked untuk penelitian 'mahasiswi kedokteran'
—A thread—
— Dana Paramita (@paramitadana) January 5, 2019
According to Dana, the culprit adopted the identity of one of her real friends, a medical student named Levina, on the messaging app LINE and started a conversation with her. Levina’s impostor (who we’ll call Fake Levina from now on) asked Dana if she was willing to be a subject in a medical research project comparing nutrition and skin color between pre and post-natal women.
To participate, Fake Levina asked Dana to PAP (meaning “post a picture”) of her entire body. When Dana replied asking if she could leave her clothes on in the photo, Fake Levina said she had to remove her clothes for visual analysis, but she could keep her underwear on.
“I will be the only one to see [your almost naked picture], after the analysis I’ll delete it straight away,” Fake Levina said in her chat to Dana.
Luckily for Dana, not long after chatting with Fake Levina, she received a call from a friend who’s an actual doctor. When she told her friend about what Fake Levina had asked for, the doctor warned her that this has become a common trick used by creeps to get women to send their nudes lately.
Dana then called the real Levina, who told her she doesn’t even have a LINE account anymore and that some of her other friends had already fallen victim to the creep.
Btw Levina emg lebih sering manggil aku ‘kak’ instead of ‘beb’. Tapi nggak tau kenapa aku percaya2 aja gitu waktu dia manggil beb, aneh (?)
Ini chat aku dan Levina via whatsapp pic.twitter.com/kgWKzVv8cu— Dana Paramita (@paramitadana) January 5, 2019
Armed with that knowledge, Dana decided to have a little fun with Fake Levina by sending him/her a picture of her feet and two memes.
Seru ugha ngerjain si kampret:( pic.twitter.com/niJxJI96wW
— Dana Paramita (@paramitadana) January 5, 2019
“The creep had the nerve to call me ‘mean’ after asking for my nude picture… I am disgusted,” Dana said.
Dana then warned others not to fall victim to this scam. She tweeted that, based on her research into the scheme, a lot of women have sadly already fallen for it. Some of the tell-tale signs Dana noticed the culprits showed include:
- They always use LINE and put the term “dokter” or “doctor” on their status,
- Their profile pictures are usually blurred or are low-resolution because they took them off social media,
- They almost always use the same research topics: a comparative analysis on nutrition and skin color between women who have given birth and those who haven’t
- They always asked for victims’ naked pictures immediately and sound pushy while doing so.
Of course, if a friend sends you a message asking for nudes, for whatever reason, it’s probably a good idea to call them first to see if their account was hacked or if they have an impostor. Better yet, don’t send nudes to anyone, ever, because you never know who can get their hands on your incriminating images these days.
