By pure coincidence, an Egyptian engineer has raised the alarm about a disaster that many Egyptian girls have faced recently. Network engineer Mohamed Wanas sounded the alarm after revealing shocking truths about a website that steals pictures of girls and women from their personal pages and then creates pornographic profiles for them.
In detail, engineer Mohamed Wanas explained that he discovered a pornographic site by chance after a friend sent him a link, and he was surprised to find dozens of girls’ photos taken from their personal pages on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He also mentioned in media statements on Sunday that these photos had been altered using Photoshop, which resulted in the girls appearing in inappropriate positions.
Around 300 natural photos have been stolen from personal pages. He announced that he had submitted a complaint to the public prosecutor through the official page, indicating that many of the girls are underage and that the website could push them to suicide at any moment out of fear of scandal. He called on judicial and security authorities to arrest those responsible for the site, rather than just closing it down.
He stressed the necessity of revealing the perpetrators in the case, stating, "If it gets shut down, many others can open. The site uploads new pictures daily and has a Telegram channel. If no action is taken quickly within a day or two, these pictures will be everywhere, and there are people who know nothing about their pictures being on the site just because someone hacked into their account and stole their pictures."
Recent tragic incidents have shaken public opinion in Egypt. Recently, a girl named Basant Khaled from Gharbia Governorate committed suicide after taking a poisonous pill, following sexual extortion by two young men who hacked her phone and obtained pictures of her, manipulating and reposting them in a shameful manner.
On Saturday morning, residents of the Al-Ma'thamiyya village near Mahalla in Gharbia were shocked when a young wife threw herself from her home's balcony in an attempt to commit suicide after being subjected to electronic extortion by her husband. He attempted to force her to sign payment receipts under duress in exchange for waiving her entire dowry and legal rights should he wish to divorce her, threatening to release compromising videos of her until he was arrested by authorities.
On Sunday, the village of Hajj Ali in the city of Awlad Saqr, in Sharqia, north of Cairo, experienced a tragedy early in the morning when 15-year-old Haidi Shehata Abdel Fattah, a first-year secondary commercial student, died after being subjected to electronic extortion. Security forces apprehended two of the involved parties while the others remain at large. The girl's sister reported that security managed to arrest two of the culprits, while the others are still wanted.
