Singapore woman goes undercover to expose religious-themed sex group after ex’s revenge porn campaign
SINGAPORE, June 25 — When a stranger messaged a Singapore woman asking for sex after seeing what he believed were her nude photos online, she decided to find the culprit herself.
According to CNA, the woman created an undercover account and infiltrated a religious-themed online sex group, where she discovered her former boyfriend had allegedly been posing as her and repeatedly sharing her intimate images.
Her investigation eventually helped expose the group, which police later found had more than 79,000 members.
For his revenge porn campaign, 27-year-old Abdul Marzuq Waliyuddin Abdul Majid was sentenced to 32 months’ jail, two strokes of the cane and ordered to pay S$4,000 (RM13,000) in compensation.
The pair met while attending a religious school as teenagers and exchanged intimate photos during their relationship. After they broke up, the victim deleted the images she had of him and asked him to do the same. He claimed he had, but secretly kept the files.
Court documents said Abdul became enraged in 2021 after the woman ignored his attempt to reconcile and blocked him.
According to the Singapore-based media organisation, he changed an online account to display her name before uploading snippets of her intimate videos and nude photos into pornography groups, including one featuring women wearing the tudung.
He also posted recent Facebook photos identifying her and added captions linking her to a Singapore religious school.
After joining the group undercover, the victim found multiple posts featuring herself and traced them back to Abdul’s account before alerting another woman whose photos had also appeared there and filing a police report.
Her actions led investigators to the group, which was later shut down.
The court heard the fallout continued long after the posts were removed.
The victim remained traumatised, was repeatedly contacted by people who had seen the images, became estranged from her mother and abandoned her dream of becoming a religious teacher.
She also struggled with trust issues and at one point contemplated taking her own life before being stopped by her sister.
In sentencing Abdul, the judge described the case as “a classic case of revenge porn”, saying he had deliberately sought to humiliate his former girlfriend by tying her identity to explicit content shared on pornography platforms.
