9 women victims of fake reality show
p2pnet news view TV | Crime:- Nine women in Turkey walk freely into a villa under the impression they’d be taking part in a Big Brother-style reality TV show.
They were reportedly made to sign a contract that banned them from any outside contact and ordered them to pay a 50,000 Lira ($33,000, £20,000) fine if they left the show before two months, says the BBC, going on:
“Police stormed the building in Riva, reportedly after family members became concerned they were being prevented from contacting the women.
“According to local media, naked images of the women were sold on the internet.”
They were rescued by Turkish military police after two months confinement, says Reuters, quoting a police spokesman as saying, “Cameras in the villa filmed the women 24-hours a day, providing a live stream of images for Internet users who had paid to access the footage.”
HaberTurk newspaper, “says four people who lived at the villa with the women were detained,” says the BBC, adding:
“Police are still searching for the gang’s leader who sold images of the women on the internet, the newspaper adds.”
(Cheers, catflap)
BBC – Women rescued from Turkey TV scam, September 10, 2009
Reuters – Police free 9 from fake Turkish “Big Brother” house, September 10, 2009
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Strange.
I don’t think we’re getting the whole story.
If the contracts they signed allowed the contract holder to show
footage on the internet, then where’s the crime ?
So far, it sounds like everyone was old enough, AND consenting. and even
signed a contract to that effect.
Just because it was an Internet reality show, doesn’t make it any less a reality show.
Hopefully more info will surface because as it stands now, There seems to be no crime
except the stupidity of those willing to sign a contract without fully reading and understanding it.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
This is fishy. Why the families were being prevented from contacting the women then?
September 11th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
” This is fishy. Why the families were being prevented from contacting the women then? ”
Not so much.
In every reality show I have ever seen, the ‘contestants’ aren’t allowed to contact their families.
It’s pretty much the norm for any reality show, and should have been outlined in the contract
that THOSE INVOLVED SIGNED. Just because it was an internet based reality show wouldn’t necessarily
make it any different. Just because it may have been internet based doesn’t make it ‘fake’ either.
The contracts the peopled SIGNED would reveal exactly what THEY AGREED TO.
There are really too few details to assume that the women were conned.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8248792.stm
They were also told to fight each other, wear bikinis and dance by the pool, HaberTurk newspaper reports.
The mother of one of the women told the newspaper they were not abused or sexually harassed.
The duped contestants are said to be aged between 16 and 24.
The women had responded to an advert seeking contestants for a reality show that would be aired on a major Turkish television station, Dogan news agency reports.
They were also told to fight each other, wear bikinis and dance by the pool, HaberTurk newspaper reports.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:37 am
“They were also told to fight each other, wear bikinis and dance by the pool, HaberTurk newspaper reports.”
Doesn’t dancing in a bikini qualify as hardcore porn in Turkey?