Lae police boss seeks help on FB porn page issue

Lae police will be seeking advice and assistance from cybercrime experts on a recent trend on Facebook that has surfaced.

Lae metropolitan police Commander Anthony Wagambie Junior says in a recent case, a woman had her Facebook profile posted in a group with the administrator of the group alleging that there was some indecent material linked to the victim.

The wrongly identified woman was then sent an inbox message by the page administrator and told to pay some money or risk having her photographs posted on the FB page.

Fortunately, the woman brought the matter to police and had it registered.

Wagambie Jnr says this type of online activity is starting to be a concern to police as these pages on FB are getting out of control.

Despite the site being a good tool to use for sharing information, police are now seeing that there are some users who use the social network to abuse, harass and extort people.

Wagambie adds that he has already verbally advised AFP on this and will be submitting a written request for advice and assistance from cybercrime experts.

These experts will aid police to identify the people administrating these types of porn pages that are preying on unsuspecting users.

Author: 
Julianna Waeda