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Incident 1722: India-Based Sextortion Gang Allegedly Used AI-Generated Sexual Videos to Extort Canada-Based Indian Victim

Description: Police in Ghaziabad, India, alleged that four members of a sextortion gang recorded a Canada-based Indian victim during a Facebook Messenger video call, created sexually explicit AI videos depicting the victim, and demanded $50,000 while threatening to circulate the material. Police said the victim reported the demand and that AI sextortion videos were found on the suspects' phones.

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Alleged: Synthetic video generation technology developers , Synthetic media generation technology developers and Deepfake technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Md Faisal , Md Amaan Tyagi , Md Hammad Tyagi , Md Faizaan Malik , Sextortionists , Deepfake creators , Synthetic media creators , Cybercriminals , Scammers , Scammers in India and Cybercriminals in India, which harmed Victims of sextortion , Victims of deepfake abuse , Individuals subjected to sexual exploitation imagery and Privacy.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Deepfake technology , Synthetic video generation technology , Synthetic media generation technology , Facebook , Facebook Messenger and Social media platforms

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Incident ID
1722
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2026-09-10
Editors
Daniel Atherton

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Incident Occurrenceकनाडा निवासी NRI को फेक आईडी से फंसाया, 50 हजार डॉलर की मांग, गाजियाबाद पुलिस का सेक्सटॉर्शन गैंग पर बड़ा एक्शन+1
Jamia Millia student among 4 held for using AI deepfakes to extort money from NRI
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कनाडा निवासी NRI को फेक आईडी से फंसाया, 50 हजार डॉलर की मांग, गाजियाबाद पुलिस का सेक्सटॉर्शन गैंग पर बड़ा एक्शन

कनाडा निवासी NRI को फेक आईडी से फंसाया, 50 हजार डॉलर की मांग, गाजियाबाद पुलिस का सेक्सटॉर्शन गैंग पर बड़ा एक्शन

navbharattimes.indiatimes.com

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Jamia Millia student among 4 held for using AI deepfakes to extort money from NRI

Jamia Millia student among 4 held for using AI deepfakes to extort money from NRI

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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4 arrested for ₹6.5 crore extortion racket in Ghaziabad

4 arrested for ₹6.5 crore extortion racket in Ghaziabad

hindustantimes.com

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कनाडा निवासी NRI को फेक आईडी से फंसाया, 50 हजार डॉलर की मांग, गाजियाबाद पुलिस का सेक्सटॉर्शन गैंग पर बड़ा एक्शन
navbharattimes.indiatimes.com · 2026

गाजियाबाद: उत्तर प्रदेश के गाजियाबाद में एक बड़े इंटरनेशनल सेक्सटॉर्शन रैकेट का खुलासा हुआ है। कनाडा के ब्रेम्पटन निवासी एनआरआई को फ्रॉडों ने अपनी साजिश का शिकार बनाया। गैंग ने नवप्रीत कौर नाम की फर्जी फेसबुक प्रोफाइल के जरिए एनआरआई को टारगे…

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Jamia Millia student among 4 held for using AI deepfakes to extort money from NRI
timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 2026

Ghaziabad: A second-year Jamia Millia Islamia University student and three of his associates were arrested for allegedly extorting money from a Canada-based NRI by threatening to circulate AI-generated sexually explicit videos.

Police said …

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4 arrested for ₹6.5 crore extortion racket in Ghaziabad
hindustantimes.com · 2026

The Ghaziabad crime branch on Friday arrested four people for allegedly running an extortion racket and collecting around ₹6.5 crore from 130 "hired" bank accounts, police said.

According to the police, the suspects had been operating the r…

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