India, March 26 -- An influencer has been arrested for staging her own kidnapping in a twisted attempt to increase her follower count. Monniky Fraga, a 27-year-old influencer mom from Brazil, was arrested by the police on Tuesday - nearly one year after she told her followers that she and her husband had been taken hostage by bandits.

Even her husband, who was taken hostage, did not know that the whole thing was staged, New York Post reported.

In April last year, Fraga posted a teary-eyed video where she told her social media followers that she and her husband Lucas were ambushed outside their home in Igarassu, Brazil.

Fraga claimed that three armed men dragged them into a wooded area and held them hostage for hours, only releasing the...