The
Mumbai-based, Bhopal-born 24-year-old Arshi Khan is livid. And very
rightly so. The actress has been running from pillar to post for the
last one month to get some fake morphed nude images which bear her face
photoshopped onto Sunny Leone’s nude body removed from some pages on
Facebook and the web. But every time she manages to convince Facebook to
delete the images, they appear elsewhere on some different page.
Says Arshi Khan speaking to content agency Newz66.com,
“About one month ago, a friend informed me of some images on a couple
of Facebook pages that bore my face with the body of some porn star.
First I did not believe him, but then he downloaded the images and
mailed them to me. After that I began to scout for the images on Facebok
and located them on three semi porn pages. I reported those images to
Facebook and requested all my friends to do so. And surely enough after
about a week the entire page disappeared, only to appear again after ten
days in a different avatar. There are about 100 images of Indian women
in different states of undress, some of them almost nude and 2-3
photographs amongst those bear my facial image. Every time I report the
page or my morphed images, the get pulled down by Facebook only to
appear again on a different page. The pages bear names like Indian bhabi or
something like that. A social media expert I spoke to opined that these
morphed images have got circulated to a gang of delinquent or rogue
social media people who earn money by creating fake pages with semi nude
images on them and generating “likes” on them. The likes generated are
transferred to clients pages using scripts and other programming. They
then charge unsuspecting clients huge sums for such fraudulently
generated ‘Facebook Likes’.”
A flustered Arshi Khan has now decided to approach the Mumbai police
Cyber Crime cell for help. “I did not want to go to the police as it
involves a lot of paper work and several trips to the police station to
record statements, hand over printouts, etc. I am busy with my shoots,
two Tamil films and the two beauty pageants I am participating in this
year. However, enough is enough. I have decided to bring the police into
this matter. Before I do that, I want to send out a stern message
through the media to the scoundrels behind the prank – if you can call
it that – cease and desist or else you will be behind bars very soon,” a
visibly angry Arshi Khan told Newz66.com.
Photo Credits: Newz66.com