bengaluru cyber fraudsters allegedly attempted to extort money from a senior karnataka mp last week but the alert politician managed to ward them offdavanagere bjp mp and former union minister gm siddeshwara 71 received a whatsapp video call when he was in his flat at kingfisher towers near ub city on july 20 a woman allegedly began showing him her private parts and spoke to him inappropriately he disconnected the call but the miscreants made multiple calls and recorded him talking to them only after siddeshwara handed over the phone to his wife did the miscreants stop calling him that day however he got another whatsapp call when he was with police to lodge a complaint against the miscreants they also sent threat messages to him saying they would upload his recordings on social media platforms like instagram youtube and twitter acting on siddeshwaras complaint police found that the calls were made from a particular number in rajasthan they said it was a case of attempted sextortionsiddeshwara in his complaint said he first received a whatsapp message how are you from an unknown number around 1016pm on july 20 he didnt respond he then received a whatsapp video call around 1022pm the caller was a woman and spoke to him in hindi when siddeshwara asked her who she was and what was the purpose of her call she started showing her private parts and speaking inappropriatelya shocked siddeshwara disconnected the call around 1024pm he received a whatsapp audio call and the caller began speaking in an obscene manner the mp disconnected the call the miscreants again made a video call around 1027pm with the woman caller showing her face and private partsi was having coffee when she made the call i yelled at her siddeshwara told toi by then the mp was also sent video recordings of him having a conversation with the woman despite the mps efforts to dissuade her the woman persisted with her inappropriate talki gave the phone to my wife we both yelled at the woman and the call got disconnected i received video recordings of the call around 1047pm they started blackmailing me and threatened to upload the recordings on social media siddeshwara saidi immediately called arun k superintendent of police davanagere and explained what had happened i forwarded the recordings snippets and text messages the miscreants had sent me since i was in bengaluru for treatment i lodged a complaint at commercial street police station the next day with the help of geetha cr assistant commissioner of police pulakeshinagar subdivision when i was with the acp the miscreants again called and sent threat messages the officer had my device by then and disconnected multiple calls siddeshwara said