Neighbor Revealed as Cyber-Stalker

Neighbor Revealed as Cyber-Stalker

A South African man has admitted carrying out a cyber-harassment campaign against his neighbors in an attempt to extort money. 





Residents of the same quiet street in a Durban suburb that Dharmesh Singh calls home were subjected to weeks of abuse with no idea that the person behind it was their immediate neighbor. 





Twenty-three-year-old Singh used unregistered SIM cards to create fake social media profiles from which he sent threatening messages to residents of Battersea Road, Reservoir Hills. He also sent threatening text messages and WhatsApp messages under the alias Sashin Soobramoney.





Some Battersea Road residents, including Singh's own parents, were inconvenienced by the almost constant arrival of e-hailing client pick-up services and food deliveries that they had not ordered in March and April last year.





However, it was Andy Hingdebi, the man living directly adjacent to Singh, who filed a complaint against the cyber-stalker. The married father of two young children said that along with hundreds of false food deliveries and unrequested pick-up orders, he received multiple threatening messages. 





Singh threatened to rape Hingdebi's wife and children, rob his home, and kill Hingdebi and the security guard he had hired unless Hingdebi left R50,000 in cash (approximately $3,400) in the mailbox at the front of his house to be collected. 





No prior altercations had taken place between Hingdebi and Singh.





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