Pakistani authorities have busted a gang that kidnapped youngsters for ransoms after luring them through Facebook and telephone calls, using a female member.
According to News24, the gang, which included a lawyer, his wife, the son of a policeman and four others, was active in the industrial town of Gujranwala in central Punjab province and was traced by tracking phone calls.
A senior police official said that a girl was assigned to trap young boys in fake love on Facebook and phone and then invite them for dates, adding that the other members would kidnap the boys when they came to meet her.
He said that so far, they had got verification about two boys who were trapped in fake love of this lady and were then kidnapped, and that their families later paid ransom amounts worth millions of rupees to get them free.
Pakistan earlier this month cracked down on 'immoral' love chat services offered by mobile phone companies, stifling hopes of illicit romance in the conservative Muslim country, where dating is frowned upon, the report said.
In 2010, Pakistan shut down Facebook for nearly two weeks over blasphemy and continues to restrict hundreds of online links, the report added.