How accepting a friend request can ruin your life — The Zealous Media

Priyanshu Ratnakar
3 min readApr 15, 2020

There’s a gang active on every social media platforms. These gangs indulge in the activity of sending friend requests/follow requests to random girls.
Girls accept their request in the awe of getting followers and like.
After accepting, starts a viscous bog.

They take screenshots of their profile and pictures then edit/paste them on nude pictures.
They send messages to these random girls and start blackmailing/ransom them.
They ask girls to send a face video of her and threaten her in a way that girls can’t deny them.
And due to fear of humiliation girl sends a face video of her.

After getting the video they come up with a video morphed/edited clips of porn videos of her and threaten her to send them the real nude images and video of her and the girl being scared to send it.

Now, their real game starts

They ask the girl to meet their gang members in the place of their own choice and the girl agrees on the condition of deleting her pictures and videos.
When they meet, the guy takes her to a hotel room and forces her to have sex or otherwise, he will leak the video and it will become viral and if she agrees he will delete the photos and videos in front of her.
The girl feels that she does not have any other option left and do whatever is asked.
Guy shoot a video of the act deletes the old videos and photos and threatens her to not tell anyone.
After a few days, they again start blackmailing her with a real video of her and ask her to meet them.

When girls go to meet them, they force her to go with another guy and do whatever he wants from her.
Girls can’t deny and this is how one after another she keeps doing the same with countless guys.
In a few days, either she became a prostitute and start enjoying her life as she sees no other option or she commits suicide.
The majority of the case was found with the girls whose age was below 18.

Dear girls,
In the hike of likes and followers please never accept any unknown requests.
As a brother/friend whenever you face such a situation like this feel free to message me ask me for help.
Definitely I will be there for you.

Dear boys,
The little you can do is:-
Go and tell your sister that you will be with her even if anyone tries to malign her image.
Go and tell your girlfriend that you will be with her if unfortunately, anything happens like this.
Go and tell your female friends that you will believe her and stand by them if anything like this happens.
This will surely give girls motivation to take stand they will see the hope that someone is there who will support them.

Dear people,
Better you do it now so you won’t need to come with a candle to do formalities later.
You won’t need to come on the road in protest. Don’t wait for your sister-girlfriend-friend-wife to be another victim.
Take a stand now and save our India’s daughters.

Priyanshu Ratnakar is an Indian teen entrepreneur. Founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Protocol X. Priyanshu is one of the youngest cybersecurity researchers of India. At just the age of 15, Priyanshu started his own company Protocol X. He was named in Your-story’s Top 5 Youngest Entrepreneurs of India 2020.

Originally published at https://thezealousmedia.com on April 15, 2020.

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Priyanshu Ratnakar

Entrepreneur | Cyber Security Researcher | Speaker Founder and CEO at Protocol X