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Police arrest Neymar imposter for blackmailing women

Updated on: 04 September,2016 12:37 PM IST  | 
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Brazil police arrested a man and are searching for another over an alleged extortion. Carlos Antonio Rodrigues (30) posed as Brazilian footballer Neymar to trick girls into sending intimate photographs and then extorted them from an Internet cafe in Minas Gerais.

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Rio de Janeiro: Brazil police arrested a man and are searching for another over an alleged extortion. Carlos Antonio Rodrigues (30) posed as Brazilian footballer Neymar to trick girls into sending intimate photographs and then extorted them from an Internet cafe in Minas Gerais.


The duo promised women contact with the stars, places on a reality TV show and modelling photo shoots for some of Brazil’s biggest magazines.



To lure young girls, one of them posed as a professional photographer on a Brazilian social networking site before introducing them to fake profiles of famous people.

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