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People have taken their own lives after being abused and blackmailed by loan apps. Bbc Eye Investigations goes undercover to reveal the scam thats plaguing india. And to expose the people making money from misery, fear and shame. This is how the trap is set. You get a message saying youve been approved for an instant loan. All you have to do is download the app, accept the terms and conditions. And the money is yours. What you dont know is youre already in the trap. The app is extracting all you...

Across india, at least 60 people have taken their own lives after being abused and blackmailed by loan apps. Bbc Eye Investigations goes undercover to reveal the scam thats plaguing india. And to expose the people making money from misery, fear and shame. This is how the trap is set. You get a message saying youve been approved for an instant loan. All you have to do is download the app, accept the terms and conditions. And the money is yours. What you dont know is youre already in the trap. The...

this is how the trap is set. you get a message saying youve been approved for an instant loan. all you have to do is download the app, accept the terms and conditions... ..and the money is yours. what you dont know is youre already in the trap. the app is extracting all your personal information — your id cards, your photos and videos... ..the names and numbers of yourfamily, your colleagues, yourfriends. thats when the extortion begins. my name is poonam agarwal. i am an investigati...

lives after being abused and blackmailed by loan apps. bbc eye investigations goes undercover to reveal the scam thats plaguing india... ..and to expose the people making money from misery, fear and shame. this is how the trap is set. you get a message saying youve been approved for an instant loan. all you have to do is download the app, accept the terms and conditions... ..and the money is yours. what you dont know is youre already in the trap. the app is extracting all your personal...

across india, at least 60 people have taken their own lives after being abused and blackmailed by loan apps. bbc eye investigations goes undercover to reveal the scam thats plaguing india... ..and to expose the people making money from misery, fear and shame. this is how the trap is set. you get a message saying youve been approved for an instant loan. all you have to do is download the app, accept the terms and conditions... ..and the money is yours. what you dont know is youre alread...

Book now at lq.com an undercover video shows a reporter posing as a prospective client of cambridge analytica which is the firm that ran the digital operation for the trump campaign. this video shows this undercover reporter and an executive from the company talking about their business practices. lets listen. >> our job is to get -- is to drop the bucket further down the well than anybody else, to understand what are those really deep-seeded is underlying fears,

Unsuspecting facebook users. >> they are not just a social network. they are also an information battle space. >> reporter: whistle-blower christopher wiley helped find cambridge, which later was brought on to help the trump campaign. the firm hired by jared kushner, who oversaw the digital operation, and by brad parscale, who is now running the trump 2020 reelection efforts. >> its really important that americans understand what has happened with their data, their private information. >> report...

British partner itn channel 4, a company executive told a reporter posing as a perspective client about the companys edge in politics. >> its no good fighting an election campaign on the fax, -- facts because actually its all about emotion. >> reporter: another executive brags about the lengths they would be willing to go for a client. >> girls around to the candidates house. we have lots of history of things. >> reporter: tonight cambridge analytica denies misusing facebook data, and says we en...

2016 election, is coming under increased scrutiny after a series of investigations have exposed its practices. nbcs british partner, itn channel 4 conducted a number of undercover reports about the firm. the videos show a reporter posing as a perspective client of cambridge analytica. and executives bragging about using bribes and prostitutes to entrap politicians. it comes days after both "the new york times" and "the guardian" reported the firm which was created by republican mega-donor robert...

So what youre about to see that man, alexander nix, bragging to a reporter posing as a prospective client about the companys role in the trump campaign. nix doesnt know hes being recorded. >> heres the response now from cambridge analytica. cambridge analytica, they right, has never claimed it won the election for president trump. this is patently absurd. we are proud of the work we did on that campaign and have spoken in many public forums about what we consider to be our contribution to the ca...