KUALA LUMPUR - A WOMAN who met a Singaporean man on the Internet is being blackmailed, Malaysian newspaper The Star reported on Wednesday.

The two had been in an online relationship for six months before she called it off to be just friends.

She claimed that he started blackmailing her with pictures and videos of her in revealing clothes, threatening to send them to her friends, family and colleagues if she refused to get back together with him.

The 25-year-old had agreed to strip for him after much persuasion, not knowing that he could capture the screen shots from their web cam chats.

The clerk from Petaling Jaya, who wanted to be known as Nat, said the man first threatened her on Oct 18 with the less revealing pictures, and said that he would send the naked photos and videos of her later.

At a press conference at the Malaysian Chinese Association's Public Complaints and Services Department on Tuesday, she said, 'I was shocked and very disappointed when I saw the photos. Why did he treat me like this? How can a man do this?'

'In his opinion, I had treated him badly by breaking up with him. So he gave me a choice. Give him another chance or he would send out the pictures,' she said.

Nat said the man had called her early on Tuesday morning to say that he had changed his mind about sending out the pictures, but she could not trust him anymore.

According to her, the man was a business consultant who travelled to Malaysia often.

They met online in February but have never met in person.

She claimed that she did not want to continue the relationship due to communication problems.

She reported the matter to department head Michael Chong as she wanted to prevent other girls from suffering as she has.

Mr Chong said there were six cases of blackmail via the Internet so far this year and five last year.