TAN Eng Hwa claimed to be a model agency owner and a professional photographer in the online ads he posted to seek models.
At least four women responded to the ads. He offered them money and asked them to pose nude or in skimpy lingerie for a photo shoot.
But in the end, he did not pay any of them. Neither did he get them other modelling assignments.
In sentencing Tan to four years' jail on March 25, District Judge Jasvender Kaur admonished Tan for his ruse.
"This was undoubtedly criminal conduct of a despicable character," she said.
"You did not stop there. You knew the ladies were vulnerable because of the nude photographs you have in your possession, but went on to use the photographs to blackmail two of them. These were particularly mean and cynical offences."
Tan could have been jailed up to 10 years for cheating.
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This article was first published in The New Paper.
i do sympathise with them as they were eventually taken advantage of. hope this can serve as a lesson to young girls out that there are real bad people who prey on youngster who are weak in mind, naive, materialistics ...