Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh: police arrest four people accused of recording a Canada-based NRI on a video call from a fake Facebook profile, making AI obscene videos and demanding $50,000 under threat of circulating them

The extortion. The Times of India reported on 3 October 2026 that, according to Ghaziabad police, the gang created a fake Facebook profile in a woman's name and contacted a Canada-based NRI on Messenger. They allegedly made a video call on 10 September 2026 and recorded the victim, then contacted the victim again a few days later, demanded $50,000 and threatened to upload the footage and AI-made obscene videos if the money was not paid. Aaj Tak and Navbharat Times, relaying the same police account in Hindi, say the victim lives in Brampton and that an objectionable AI video was prepared from the call recording.

The complaint. The victim was given an account number at a bank branch in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar District Centre and contacted the cybercrime team on 17 September; Aaj Tak says the call came to the police CUG number at about 2:30 at night. Police said the phone number was linked to 40 cyber-fraud complaints on the national NCRB portal and registered an FIR under the BNS and the IT Act.

Arrests. The crime branch arrested four people; the ACP (crime) said other gang members were absconding and that AI sextortion videos had been found on the accused's phones. Police said the gang had been active since 2023, bought bank accounts from other people for about Rs 15,000 each and also ran a share-market investment fraud through a mobile app. Police put the cyber fraud traced to the gang so far at about Rs 6.58 crore; the reports do not say how much of it came from extortion with AI-made videos.

Limits. All four reports relay one police account; no victim statement or court record was read and the videos were not inspected. The Times of India uses male pronouns for the victim and ETV Bharat calls the victim a woman; the public record does not state a gender. Whether the victim paid anything is not reported.

A Canada-based NRI was recorded on a video call by a gang using a fake profile and threatened with the circulation of AI-made obscene videos unless $50,000 was paid, according to Ghaziabad police as reported by four outlets.

Ghaziabad police registered an FIR under the BNS and the IT Act and announced on 2 October 2026 the arrest of four gang members; police said other members were absconding and that the investigation of the network and its bank accounts continued. No charge sheet or court proceeding is reported in the sources read.