KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — A court in Singapore has jailed a 27-year-old Singaporean woman for five months yesterday for stalking a Malaysian woman and threatening to disseminate the latter’s obscene photographs which she had obtained.

Singapore’s Straits Times reported that the court convicted Durrah Faiqah Mohammad Mokhtar after she pled guilty to one count each of criminal intimidation and stalking.

Durrah had pretended to be a man on several social media accounts in April 2014 to pursue a relationship, a practice called "catfishing”.

That same month, the 29-year-old Malaysian came across Durrah’s Instagram account where she posed as a male pilot, and later became involved after communicating via text messaging app WhatsApp, without knowing the latter’s true identity.

She had sent Durrah about 10 photographs of herself, either topless or clad in underwear. In July 2015 after a year together online, the victim asked to break up as Durrah refused to meet in person.

"The accused then threatened the victim by stating that she would disseminate the obscene photos,” deputy public prosecutor Esther Tang reportedly said.

"As the accused and the victim reconciled, the accused did not disseminate any of the obscene photos on this occasion.”

However, Durrah then demanded the woman to provide her Facebook and Instagram account passwords and threatened to post the photos online if she refused. The victim reluctantly agreed to Durrah’s demands.

In October the same year, the victim again told Durrah she wished to break up. In return, Durrah threatened to send the photos to the victim’s brother if she did not reply to Durrah’s messages.

"Eventually, the accused did send the obscene photos to the victim’s brother via Facebook, using the victim’s account.

"The accused told the victim’s brother that the obscene photographs would become ‘viral’ if the victim did not reply to her WhatsApp messages,” Tang reportedly said.

On April 25, 2016, Durrah logged into the Malaysian woman’s Facebook account and sent the pictures to the latter’s friends.

The victim alerted the Singaporean police the next day.

Durrah had also created eight Instagram accounts between April and September that year to post the pictures, before mentioning it to the victim.

The Singaporean police later tracked down Durrah and arrested her.

Durrah was unrepresented in court yesterday and said she was remorseful, pleading for another chance.