37-year-old Malaysian, Ooi Chuen Wei, pretended to be a gynaecologist from Gleneagles hospital in order to trick women into sending him photos and videos of their private parts.
He pleaded guilty to 6 charges of cheating by personation and was sentenced to 40 months imprisonment on 26 October.
He had managed to trick 35 women into sending him 919 photos and videos of their private parts from 2018 to 2021.
What happened?
Ooi started his scheme in 2016 by creating a fake Facebook profile pretending to be a female gynaecologist, contacting his victims via social media from 2018 to 2021, according to Channel NewsAsia.
He took the name Dr Janie Lee Yan Hooi, from Gleneagles Medical Centre and added both men and women as friends to look more legit.
To further increase his appearance of legitimacy, Ooi created Instagram and LinkedIn accounts with similar information about his fake identity.
He would send his victims template messages and offered to share a monthly medical plan for health consultations, claiming that Gleneagles had approved of it.
He would then ask them to send him videos of themselves massaging their private parts, providing them with step-by-step instructions on how to do it, claiming that it was to help him diagnose health issues to provide a suitable treatment plan for them.
He would then download and save the videos that the victims sent him.
One of the victims started getting suspicious in 2021 after doing research and finding out that Dr Janie Lee Yan Hooi isn’t real.
She then lodged a police report and Ooi was then arrested.