LOL.
People craving for some TV attention learn their lesson.
ISTANBUL -- Turkish military police said yesterday they had stormed an Istanbul villa to rescue nine captive women whose scantily clad images were posted online after they were recruited for a television reality show.
The women said they had believed they were being filmed for a television show like Big Brother, which confines a group of people to a house under the constant gaze of cameras, the Dogan news agency and other media said, without citing sources.
Instead, pictures of the women posing in bathing suits and exercising were distributed on a Turkish-language website that allowed users to vote for their favourite woman, and see more images, by charging money through their mobile phones.
DUPED
The women soon realized they had been duped, and asked to leave the villa, according to local media.
The women were rescued Monday in the villa in Riva, a resort near Istanbul, a military police spokesman said.
Hilmi Tufan Cakir, a lawyer representing the show's organizers, said eight out of the nine women had formally complained they were held against their will.
The women were made to sign a contract that said they could have no contact with their families and would have to pay a 50,000 Turkish Lira fine ($23,000) if they left the show before two months, Dogan reported.
The women were told they could not leave unless they paid the fine and those who insisted were threatened, the news agency said.
Cakir claimed the raid came after the women became "bored" and one of them called her mother for help.
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http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/world/2009/09/11/10834111-sun.html