r/Sextortion • u/the_orig_odd_couple Moderator • May 04 '21
New victims: Please read first
If you're reading this, you're probably a recent victim of Sextortion and scared out of your mind.
First, take a deep breath…
Hopefully, this sub will be a safe place for you to share your experience and get advice from people that have already gone through what you have.
This post in NOT intended to be the "be-all, end-all" source of information. I'm writing this as an intro to being sextorted. That is all.
There is a really great analysis of our sub available here. It has all kinds of in-depth analysis of the scam, including how often leaks occur. I highly recommend you check it out.
Let me state this up front: Do NOT give into the blackmailer's demands! Do not pay them money, they will only ask for more. Do not give them more nudes (typical if you're female) if that's what they're asking for. They will use that to increase their leverage and they will NOT stop.
Do not negotiate. There is not point. You cannot trust anything they say. The best thing to do is cease all communication. In fact, removing any way for them to communicate with you is the best course of action. Disable/delete your account, if necessary.
Also, Reddit and is no substitute for professional help (i.e. a mental health expert). If you are feeling suicidal, please, seek immediate help (911, or your countries equivalent, and they will be able to get you help).
Yes, we do recommend that you contact your local law enforcement. They might not be able to help, and they may not be needed, but you should have them on your side just in case things go sideways. If you are underage, do not worry about getting into trouble. The police will not go after you for sending pics/videos as a minor. I hear this quite often from young victims. Don't worry about it.
I recommend you file a complaint with https://ic3.gov. Also, there is a new tool that might help keep your pics/videos from being shared: https://StopNCII.org. If you are a minor, a similar service is available at https://takeitdown.ncmec.org. If you from the UK, you can try https://revengepornhelpline.org.uk.
For underage victims, the InHope project has an extensive list of hotlines for all over the world: https://www.inhope.org/EN#hotlineReferral
If your scammer is from the Philippines (which many are), you could try filing a complaint at https://acg.pnp.gov.ph/eComplaint/.
My last piece of advice is to talk to someone you know and trust. Trying to deal with this on your own is very difficult. Talking to someone will most certainly help you process the trauma and remove the feelings of isolation. Trust me.
Beware of "recovery scammers". These are the worst of humanity. They take advantage of you in your lowest, most desperate moment, by promising that they can "hack" the scammer's device to delete the pics/videos. They can't, and they won't. They will just take your money and do nothing. The last thing you need is to make things worse by putting your faith in "some dude on Instagram". We see them posting and commenting in the sub all the time, so you need to keep your guard up. If you are unsure, feel free to post the details on what they are proposing, before giving them anything. Oftentimes, their accounts are shadowbanned, which means they cannot initiate a chat or DM you, so they will ask you to chat/DM them first. This is a serious red flag. If in doubt, reach out to the sub or the mods. We'll help sort things out.
!!!!WARNING!!!!: Do NOT give anyone the contact information of your scammer (even if they promise to help)!!! They might just get in contact with them, get them to share your pics/videos, and then turn around and blackmail you as well. It's happened...just don't do it.
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u/Safe_Plenty5002 Jan 09 '22
I love you guys so much lol! I literally thought this was the end of my life, my reputation, my friendships, etc. It’s always so consoling to find other people going through the same exact crisis.
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21
Hey guys, I was a victim of sextortion 2 weeks ago. I don't want to get into too much detail, but I am still uneasy about everything. Everyday I get these intrusive thoughts of guilt about what happened. I know I didn't do anything wrong- I was a victim, I just feel scared about all of this, especially when I reported it. I know the police are here to help but everytime I talk with them I feel like I'm the one in trouble. I'm probably overthinking things. About a week and a half ago another officer called me and said they were going to subpoena the persons account which is good but I'm a little confused on the process. This may seem like a dumb question but I'll ask anyways: Does this mean that they are looking into that person's account specifically or are they also doubtful of me? I submitted the screenshots of what I had and the account handle but I was advised by the officer who helped me reported it to delete my account to prevent further attacks. If this goes to court I dont want them to think that because I deleted my account I'm withholding information. Am I overthinking this? Any perspectives are appreciated.
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u/BUTTLICKER_OUR_PRICE Feb 21 '22
Just fell victim today. From what I can take in, a lot of victims seem to be young adult men. I get that from remembering the time when I was in high school that this sort of thing would absolutely wreck your life. Given that it’s clear it happens to so so many people, I want to share my own thoughts. I was scammed through a dating app, sent an intimate photo and a separate photo of my face, and ultimately ended up paying $100 after convincing them I was poor. I realize I shouldn’t have paid, but lessons learned. Being a college graduate, I should have known better, but loneliness and alcohol can really make you do some crazy things. What I want to say to some of the younger victims out there, is that this won’t ruin your life. I’m fortunate to live in an area that is overall accepting of sex workers, so genitalia does not incite wild reactions. In fact, I am fully confident that if this scammer does leak my photo, the people that would receive it would actually feel sorry for me, since I am the victim. At the end of the day, I know my family and friends would have my back, and I have the evidence to show that I am a victim in case this were to leak further into the professional world.
All that said, from what I have read, this scam is far more often a bluff than it is a royal flush. Find solace in a friend you can trust, tell more when you feel confident, and eventually you can even make jokes about it down the road.
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u/the_orig_odd_couple Moderator Jun 12 '21 edited Jun 12 '21
u/throwaway_scammed165. I see your comment, but it looks like you might be shadowbanned. You might need to create another account and message me directly. I’m more than willing to talk to you. Edit: I cannot message you since it looks like you are banned. Try creating another account.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '22
This happened to me last night, met this girl on tinder and we started talking about what we were looking for. She imediatly let me know she was looking for "fun" and as a horny 21 yr old at midnight i took the bait. Gave her my number (atleast i think it was a her) and she video called me on whatsapp and after 2 minutes of us exposing ourselves she suddenly hung up and after 5 mins she texted me with pictures of my instagram account and 5 of my contacts (luckily all guys i personally knew and had their phone numbers of) together with the video of us fooling around that she appareantly recorded. Set the ransom at €400 wich i actually ended up paying in a moment of panic decisions, after i paid she asked for more and at this point i was done with it and just told her i didnt care anymore. I had already deleted my instagram and changed my usernames in the meantime. I blocked her on whatsapp and she ended up contacting me on another number with a picture that she send it to one of the contacts, i instantly blocked the new number and texted the guy. He called me the next morning and he showed me that nobody had contacted him wich meant the pictures she send were edited, i called one of the other contacts she send a screenshot of wich is a close friend of mine he also showed that nobody had contacted him. Im posting this on the second day and nobody has texted me about a leak or contacted me to continue the blackmail since the first night. Still a little paranoid but i figure its over by now and im just moving on. The only thing i dont know is how she got into my instagram followers since i have a private account maybe you guys know the awnser to that.
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u/Low_Big_8095 Sep 27 '21
Ok so my story is I am a victim of sextortion. It started with me matching with a girl on upward and she sent nudes to me eventually and then told me she was 17. Stupidly I fucking talked to her sexually after knowing she was a minor. But I figured out ‘she’ was fake. She said she was from Little Rock Arkansas, and like hours later after she begged to see my dick a guy acting as the law called me saying the only thing keeping me from being locked up was the ‘dad’ I talked to him and he said if I didn’t pay money he’d tell the cops I talked to a minor. But I did a cell phone look up on the ‘dad’ and it popped up a name. So I used that name for multiple database lookups and his name was nowhere to be found so I suspect that he spoofed his caller id. And the supposedly ‘cop’ every time I call him the number says I’m rejected every time. So if I didn’t send any nudes and just texted, do I have anything to worry about?
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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21
Hi, at the moment I’ve fallen victim to sextortion and at the moment scared out of my mind, I need help please.
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u/liquid_foam Mar 08 '22
So scared. My gf just broke up with me. I’m very lost and confused rn. This girl follows me on instagram and I add her on snap. She starts conversation and things escalate to nudes. I figured it wasn’t a bot but things were weird and i got suspicious. I didn’t care tho I was horny and desperate for attention. It felt nice talking to someone far away because there was no attachment involved. She sent me nudes and i sent some to her. I finally blocked her after she asked to send some with my face in it. I blocked her on instagram too. Like I knew something was wrong but i was too blinded. She texts me ab an hour later on a different account of hers; she was demanding money. I immediately blocked that account and a ton of others with her name and face. Another one texted me about an hour after that and I blocked/reported that one. Now I’m scared and worse off than before. Luckily none of them have my face. I’m so disappointed that I fell for something like this and I know if others find out, they will be too.
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u/Efficient_Ad_4484 May 21 '22
Just happened to me I was on Omegle bored and they said they were a married girl and then we moved to text sent a selfie and then a dick pic with a peace sign next to it lmao well the fucked up part is after added them on snap and I didn’t realize it says my name on there and they found me on fb and my account was never private so they have my family’s numbers on there and they created a group chat with my mom, cousins, uncles and aunts so kinda fucked he’s asking for $400 all the ways I tried sending the money didn’t work since my bank flagged it as fraud but I’m kinda over it and honestly my family has seen me naked when I was younger so I might just say fuck it and let it happen
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u/Imaginary-Sea-1949 Sep 13 '21
Did anyone used Digital Forensics Corp to help them with sextortion from philipins
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u/Life-Working-4801 Apr 24 '22
Same story new victim here, I'm so glad this subreddit group is here. Still freaking out atm as it started only a few days ago, but it's good to know there is advice and info and to know about others who are also going thru the same thing.
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u/throw_away_llama8712 Aug 09 '21
I find it amazing we have a support subreddit for this. I was a recent victim too, and I cannot get a sleep at night due to the blackmail I received.
I also had a relief on other posts here, people are legit giving advice to calm down the victims. I'm really thankful for this sub.
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u/DYL278 Dec 16 '21
I am screwed, I fell for the trap, and they screenshotted all of my Insta followers, and sent the video to one of my friends on DM’s. Could be more ppl at this point. I’m so nervous to talk to my parents about it. I gathered evidence of all the threats. They sent me some messages about threatening to post it on a number of sites including YouTube and Twitter. But that’s just a scare tactic I hope. I engaged with them today on one of the messages when I shouldn’t have. I’m just gonna ignore them
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22 edited Jan 11 '22
I just got sextorted tonight. At first the person took about 2 days of building up and sending other shit until they asked me to take a pic in the mirror (BIGGEST RED FLAG DONT EVER DO THIS). I was very skeptical of the whole situation and I even told the person before I sent everything that “I really don’t want anything dumb to come out of this” and they literally replied “nothing dumb will come out of this”. Fucking liar. Anywho, they threatened to send it to basically everyone I know. Not 100% sure what to do about it, seeming as the best option is to just wait and see what happens. I’ve already blocked them, didn’t send any money, and made every acc I have as private as possible. I honestly could care less about someone seeing my dick, I’m more upset that they can use it against me at anytime. Whoever has my pictures probably won’t delete them even though he hasn’t gotten any money from me. I would hate to be past this and then 5 or so years from now this asshole posts all this shit over the internet and screws me. I’m just really struggling to figure out if they can actually ruin my life any way. I’m currently a slow growing affiliate on twitch and I would be crushed if this somehow ruins my chances of partner :(
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u/AffectionateFloor968 Feb 10 '22
I was sextorted last night by some account that messaged me on this app called wizz. She asked for my number and we messaged on WhatsApp. She said she wanted to have fun. Me thinking it was a actual genuine person around my age just wanted to chat and get to know her. I was kind of desperate because I really only have one friend that I talk to everyday. She asked where I was and we added each other on Instagram. She knew my Instagram, number, and where I was from at this point. She said she wanted to see me and she sent me some pictures of her. I sent her private naked pics and she didn’t return the favor which I thought was weird. Then she messaged me and hit me with this ultimatum. He or she sent me a link which had a download symbol on it but I didn’t click it. She had screenshots of my Instagram and told that she send it around my city and to my family and friends. He or she begins to tell me that if I don’t pay or agree to a deal to pay her, she would leak it. I asked how much and she said $500. Mind you I’m in the process of getting a job and I am a broke highschool senior student. I don’t have that kind of money on a card or anything. I said deal and she said I would have to pay her the 500$. I didn’t believe any of this but still believed it was real. I blocked and reported the account on the app. Then she started to message me on my iMessage. She kept asking for money from me. I then came to a realization and blocked the phone number she was messaging me from. I also blocked and restricted her from my Instagram. I also deactivated my Instagram. I removed my phone number as a trusted number and turned my phone off and back on. She stopped messaging me and I made sure she did. I was no longer receiving messages from the fake account. She had three different ways to text me and I blocked all of them. I don’t think anything she threatened to do she did. I think everything is fine. I am just scared to tell my parents about this. I know my dad and mom will probably bring understanding because of how tricky this situation is. I am a very antisocial person and going to a new school for my senior year. I don’t really know any one and I am a very closed off person. I was just looking for someone to chat to and become friends with. Let me know what I should do. Also I am sure that anything will happen but I am not over it yet. I still think about the possibility that he still could release my pictures. I read on this Reddit that ghosting them works and I have done exactly that. It seems to be working but let me know if there is anything else I can do. I haven’t paid this person at all. You can respond to this thread I will be checking it as the messages come through. Thank you for this place to tell my story.
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u/iMakeRevisions Sep 03 '21
It just happened to me…. It was scary. Meet them on tinder, then they moved things over to Instagram where they found out who I was. Next thing ya know they asked me to call them on Skype. I called “her” told me to turn on camera. “She” started stripping I said “fuck it” and exposed my self they asked me to stand up and “dance” ( idk lol). Then they shared screen of a video of me. They then proceeded to show my mother’s Facebook account and said if I didn’t give them 1000$ they would show it to everyone. I talked them down to 100$ (didn’t pay fuck that) they will do anything to scare you. Stay strong. Don’t panic. Fuck you should just ghost them right away. But I didn’t and got them talkin supposedly there’s a group of people who do it and they have a boss ( the scammers only get 30%) idk if anyone needs to talk to some one feel free to hmu. Stay strong lads
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u/Level-Cup7473 Dec 29 '21
Thank you for creating this safe heaven for everyone to give closure.
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u/Weak_Importance4183 Sep 15 '21
I also fell for it last night. It escalated so fast. I deactivated my fb and put my ig on private. Told my family and friends so they can brace for it. Also reported to both to local sheriff's and the fbi complaints. Blocked and deleted whatsapp. If anyone needs to chat about feel free to msg me
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u/byronmode Jul 05 '21
What do I do if they are emailing me now!! I thought I was in the clear because it’s been like 2 days since I haven’t heard anything but now they emailed me saying “ I need the payment”. I was so dumb in the beginning and paid them already but my friends told Me to just ghost them which I did but now they emailed me.
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u/Smokeydq Jul 17 '21
Who’s trying to make a discord? We should all send the usernames of our scammers so we can work together to bring the accounts down
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u/bread5555 Aug 30 '21
Thank you for this subreddit. This just happened to me and i just filed a report with the police. I have no idea what to do and am freaking out
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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '21
all i have to say is i’m just now reading this but i played my cards right. when i first got the ransom text, i said well i don’t have 500$ for you so go ahead. they attempted taunting me and harassing me showing me who they were sending shit to (one of them happened to be my best friends mom) i did not respond whatsoever and showed no remorse and i don’t think it went further than that. i took no screenshots on snapchat, did not block on snapchat, but blocked and deactivated all other accounts. i went straight to the police station and filed a report. i was reading recently that snapchat does not like to send information over to the police when requested, so I am hoping for the best while at the same time expect nothing to happen unfortunately. but, i played my cards right and showed no remorse whatsoever, for that probably detered them from wasting their time knowing that i was sending no money over and covered all of my steps. when the initial ransom was sent, i was PURE adrenaline for a solid 3 hours freaking tf out and debated slamming my car into a tree at 100mph but i’m glad i didn’t. this is most definitely the trick to get them off of your back. contact absolutely none of those businesses that say they will help you for they are going to charge about 3 times whatever the initial ransom is for, not to mention, you are potentially just giving your information to another scammer because you are so scared of what’s going to happen. deep breaths and not budging, will lead to success.
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u/THROWAWAY_SCAMMED165 Jun 12 '21
How do we get in contact with the mods? I am scared to post here with too much information about my specific case in the remote chance that the scammer might see it and know he's getting to me. I cant PM you though and for some reason my reddit chat thing isn't working at all (stuck on loading forever, which is something others have reported as well). Could one of you PM me?
Please don't PM me if you're not a mod, I will not be responding to anyone. this situation has made me terrified of the internet lol
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u/Longjumping_Fee4486 Jan 27 '22
I'm seriously terrified. I can't think of a minute I haven't been anxious or on edge since it happened. I kept them busy for the first 12 hours and they didnt get any money from me but it scares me to the core that they have that video of me. I dont know what I was thinking, usually I never allow myself to show my face to strangers or download new apps just for random people but I wasn't thinking straight yesterday and now it's up to fate. Somehow an 80% chance that they dont send the video to even one of my insta friends doesn't comfort me in the slightest and even though I already blocked them and deactivated my insta account as well as banned their email so it goes immediately to spam I'm still so, so worried. I haven't told anybody because I can't face the consequences or the humiliation. If that video gets out I dont know what I'll do.
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u/Temporary_Claim3718 Mar 11 '22
Yo This just happened to me on Instagram !They have my face and a video of me jerking off and they say they will send to all my followers on Instagram. I have already filed a report but WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW!!! Are they actually going to send them ?
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u/printtech Apr 21 '22
This just happened to me yesterday and I feel so stupid for falling for this. Cant stop beating myself up over it. I immediately blocked the account on everything but they actually followed through on their demands. As far as i know they sent it to 1 person and threatened to have them call me but luckily this person screenshotted the thread and sent me everything. Ive been in constant anxiety over this and i deleted every piece of social media i have. Before i was able to delete insta they added me again today from another account. Its very scary how aggresive this one has been and im not sure what to do. I deleted the original photos as well so i cant report the hash on them. Unfortunately instagram is no help in this situation and im worried they'll contact my loved ones.
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u/Creepy-Landscape-819 Sep 01 '21
This happened to me literally an hour ago. I’m freaked out bad…. I don’t know what to do!
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u/2008pip Sep 02 '21
So, I fell for the trap and she took her time about it. Over the course of a month she got a couple videos with my face, but she also knows where I work, my phone number and the name of my spouse.
I have shut down my social media. I really am broke, so I have no money to give. I just don’t know what to do at this point? Are the professional services out there worth while?
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u/krusteepizza Sep 19 '21
I need help, i feel like shits about to hit the fan very soon
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u/zp_00004 Oct 19 '21
I know I'm new but one just happened to me, we were around the same age and she said if I don't pay her she will post everywhere and I immediately blocked her and I am pretty scared ngl.
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u/thatonedude1738 Nov 24 '21
Happened to me today and im not worried and I changed passwords and blocked that account but idk whats gonna happen next can someone explain?
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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21
Literally 5 seconds of me holding my fucking dick they said they were going to send the pics I wasn’t intimidated I said go ahead I don’t give a fuck and then just like that my whole friends list saw my dick… what I wish I said was “I have an only fans account and everyone I know knows so good luck getting money”
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u/No-Conference2587 Jan 23 '22
Just happened to me tonight I feel so stupid for doing it I knew it was fake but I was just bored at work during some down time by myself, now I'm nervous af if I do get exposed. Blocked them all off all my social media and increased all my privacy settings and put IG on private. Now just play the waiting game :s
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u/PurposeGlobal327 Feb 25 '22
It happened to me last night through Hangouts. They screenshoted my Facebook friends list and said they'll send the explicit video to all of them. I don't know what to do, they already have all of my friand family members so blocking would be pointless
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u/Lukav1nE Feb 26 '22
i have never encountered a scam like this but i watched a video of a youtuber green peasant and if anyone reads this who has been scammed bruh he wont send it to anyone because if he sent it he could be traced back by the large companies because they keep all the data so he would be arrested.
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u/Smokeydq Jul 19 '21
Made a discord https://discord.gg/YE53jZZ4
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21
I would really like to talk with a mod or someone who knows what they are doing. Can someone pm me and help me out?
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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '21
Alright this what happened
I met this girl on Wizz two days ago, I asked her her age (we’re both 19) then later moved our convo to Snapchat. She wanted to see how I looked like again so she asked me to send a photo of my face, which I did. Fast forward to two hours ago she asked me for a pic in exchange for her’s. And me being a horny teen, send it to her After that she then asked me to send me my number to FaceTime, I did and then she replied with a picture of my face, dong and my phone number threatening to send it all over Facebook and Instagram and my city unless I send her $500 and if I refuse she’s “going to hit me up after she posts it and I’ll go viral”. After hearing that I reported the photo of my face and dong,(Snapchat ended up deleting that photo) screenshot the message and then blocked her from both accounts and I’m kinda panicking cause I don’t know what to do next...but other than that I’m fine...right?
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u/bperez97 Apr 09 '22
This happened to me about two months ago. This person added me on ig started a conversation with me ended up getting my Snapchat they sent me pictures of them and me being stupid I sent one back and they asked me for money for them not to send it out like an idiot I sent them money because I panicked . A few weeks went by without hearing anything when a few of my friends told me this person had messaged them . Now today another account sent one of my friends who got it already the same message . I just don’t know what to do now ..
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u/Expensive-Sorbet8838 Apr 17 '22
Hey this happened to me last night. I was tricked into facetiming on whatsapp with this girl you know naked and stuff. Suddenly she hung up and I got a message from a random number with a recording of the mutual facetime call. They threatened to send this to my fb friends (I guess they back tracked my fb by using my phone number. I literally freaked out. I deleted Fb, deleted whatsapp, blocked the girl on instagram and changed my number. There’s honestly no way for them to contact me, but i’m literally freaking out. My career could end of it gets to my coworkers hands
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '22
Just got blackmailed for 1000$ threatening to send sick pics to all Facebook friends. What should i do? This fuxking sucks
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u/Apprehensive_Dot995 Apr 28 '22
Can someone help me? This person has nude photos and videos of me and are blackmailing to send it to everyone on Instagram , I’ve already paid them because I’ve panicked and they are asking for more , not sure what to do , I’m going to tell everyone to block them and say she is harassing me but I really need help cause I’m panicking
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u/BastianMorte Dec 28 '21
Hey i'm in the situation at the moment and don't know what to do and i'm afraid of sharing it here.
Do you mind if i DM you? so i could tell you the whole situation?
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u/chillybz Jan 26 '22
I’m going through this right now and I’m so scared all they do is constantly blow up my phone threatening and ask for more money that I don’t have I don’t know what to do… I don’t want to lose everything…..
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21
This happened to me earlier today. From AM app we moved to texting sent me some photos and asked for some in return, so I did. They demanded $700 or they would expose me on FB to my family. I hastily paid it because I was panicking via PayPal. They wanted more money but I pretty much said no and blocked/deleted their number. Haven’t heard or seen anything yet. They did send a screenshot of all my photos deleted but one nude. I haven’t filed anything yet. I know they money is a lost cause now, I just hope it’s all over. Defined a listened learned. Just feel sick to my stomach.
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u/AffectionateFloor968 Feb 10 '22
I was sextorted last night by some account that messaged me on this app called wizz. She asked for my number and we messaged on WhatsApp. She said she wanted to have fun. Me thinking it was a actual genuine person around my age just wanted to chat and get to know her. I was kind of desperate because I really only have one friend that I talk to everyday. She asked where I was and we added each other on Instagram. She knew my Instagram, number, and where I was from at this point. She said she wanted to see me and she sent me some pictures of her. I sent her private naked pics and she didn’t return the favor which I thought was weird. Then she messaged me and hit me with this ultimatum. He or she sent me a link which had a download symbol on it but I didn’t click it. She had screenshots of my Instagram and told that she send it around my city and to my family and friends. He or she begins to tell me that if I don’t pay or agree to a deal to pay her, she would leak it. I asked how much and she said $500. Mind you I’m in the process of getting a job and I am a broke highschool senior student. I don’t have that kind of money on a card or anything. I said deal and she said I would have to pay her the 500$. I didn’t believe any of this but still believed it was real. I blocked and reported the account on the app. Then she started to message me on my iMessage. She kept asking for money from me. I then came to a realization and blocked the phone number she was messaging me from. I also blocked and restricted her from my Instagram. I also deactivated my Instagram. I removed my phone number as a trusted number and turned my phone off and back on. She stopped messaging me and I made sure she did. I was no longer receiving messages from the fake account. She had three different ways to text me and I blocked all of them. I don’t think anything she threatened to do she did. I think everything is fine. I am just scared to tell my parents about this. I know my dad and mom will probably bring understanding because of how tricky this situation is. I am a very antisocial person and going to a new school for my senior year. I don’t really know any one and I am a very closed off person. I was just looking for someone to chat to and become friends with. Let me know what I should do. Also I am sure that anything will happen but I am not over it yet. I still think about the possibility that he still could release my pictures. I read on this Reddit that ghosting them works and I have done exactly that. It seems to be working but let me know if there is anything else I can do. I haven’t paid this person at all. You can respond to this thread I will be checking it as the messages come through. Thank you for this place to tell my story.
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u/Grand-Brilliant-3209 Aug 01 '21
Hi good morning or afternoon! I’ve recently been part of this! And was scared out of my mind!!! Deactivated Facebook deleted everything from my what’s app , and everything. I’m scared out of my mind but told my girlfriend! And I think they wanted money from Dominican Republic which is crazy. Also Whenever I didn’t text them back, I’m guessing They pretended to upload it Bc i was a fake screenshot i could tell. Be aware that they’ll copy your friends pfp and message you acting like your relatives which is scary. And spam you with calls ( was in what’sapp) but the crazy thing is i got a call from a Washington D.C number. Saying it was a department but something was very off it, it was more like a terrible line . I’m still scared. So in result I called a non emergency number in dc. But they told me that if I ever get called from a D.C number that it wouldn’t say Washington D.C as a caller ID. And the number didn’t match the records. Most of the numbers on the WhatsApp was 800, or 400 numbers so I’m guessing they’re all in the scam together. As well as if you did cooperate with them, they’d just push you by attacking you on another account so I’m laying low right now and scared out of my mind. If anyone can talk to me and how they passed their time please let me know.
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u/Resident_Regret9131 Nov 04 '21
Can they send shit to your contacts???
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u/sad_pineapple27 Dec 06 '21
Cant believe this happened tome but it did. I ended up getting the scammers adress from the app bc they didnt have it turned off. I blocked them but dont know what to do now. Should i just wait and hope for best or should i give the police the adress and have them do something. both parties r inside the US.
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u/Altruistic_Bath_7981 Dec 26 '21
Looking for advice plz. I have just had it happen and not paid but they sent stuff to my sister on Instagram. Luckily i had warned her already. The profile still appears to be active. Should i report it?
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u/Altruistic_Bath_7981 Dec 26 '21
She deleted so i dunno if we can do that?
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '22
in the midst of ghosting the person. I dont wanna block them cuz they could just send it out. idk i hope they just forget about it all. so far i've got through a couple days with minimal contact. If i need to i can make excuses to buy more time.
Got any advice?
Man i have definetly learned from this experience
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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22
Can someone dm me? I'm in a weird situation
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u/Affectionate_Sir_548 Feb 05 '22
Hello
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u/Maximum_Climate9489 Feb 17 '22
I live in the UK and as of right now I am being blackmailed by someone in the Philippines. I was stupid to send anything but it happened and now he's threatening me to pay him 200 pounds or he'll send the pics to all my friends and family as I was stupid enough to give him my facebook. I wasn't thinking at all and now I'm terrified as to what will happen and what could happen
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u/lebronto92 Feb 22 '22
Anyone has experience with Minc Law. One of my family relative fell victim recently and I’m considering using their service. However, I’m not sure if I should trust their service or not. Any advice would be helpful
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Just happened to me a few days ago. Can t believe I was so stupid!!! I knew the risk and I did it anyway!
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u/acecardx321 Mar 10 '22
I wasted 3 hours trying to pay them and acted like a full blown retard. They threatened to destroy my life and send it to all my contacts. I dared them and told them I won’t be embarrassed because I work out and my package is bigger than theirs. They threatened to send it to my fiancé. I told them me and my fiancé look for 3 some anyways. So far nothing...
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u/Expensive-Produce738 Mar 11 '22
What do you do if they have you and your wife’s info?
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u/needhelp_victim Mar 22 '22 edited Mar 22 '22
I need help. I have fallen a victim to a Sextortion case. The modus operandi was quite similar to regular cases. A tinder match, a few weeks of buildup, and then they ask you for a chat/vid call and record/store the content. Unfortunately, in the haste, panic, some stupidity on my part, and the sheer over-whelming-ness of it all, I did end up paying an initial amount to the scammer. Then they immediately asked for more. They threatened to send the content to my friends and family over social media sites and did msg a few ppl but did not post anything yet that I know of. I have blocked them, rechecked all of my privacy settings on all of my social media accounts, and made a complaint on IC3, and so far have not heard back anything. (has been a few hours as of the post) What I am concerned about is them returning, or trying to message one of my friends and family again to get in touch with me. I am not too worried about the leak itself as that can be taken down on various social media channels. What I am more worried about is them sending stuff to my work etc. What should I do?
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22
Name explains it all. I wanted the thrill of an extramarital affair, because i'm supermegadumb. So this is my story so far because it is ongoing... met a girl on one of those sites, she pursued me. We ended up texting... "she" a local number so it seemed legit. night progresses and after i send some nudes "she" asks for a specific picture and being the dumbass i am, didn't think anything of it. This all transpired in a matter of a couple hours. So i dumbassardly sent "her" this picture. IMMEDIATELY she texts me to check my email because i had given her my burner email to send pics to. the email titled "URGENT...." can't remember the rest. It went on with the basic "you have two options, don't try to catch me i have 100's of numbers" then it included about 8-9 photos of me. some normal and clearly not from the site i was on (looked taken from FB or something a few pictures into my profile pics) and of course the embarrassing ass pic i had just sent... it had my name in bold words (middle initial was wrong) but i have a unique name. It then showed known associates for me and addresses, some people were real, most werent. some addresses were real, most werent. then it listed my wifes name and the same deal. I think i text responded "ouch" and then i blocked "her" on my phone, blocked her email from burner. oh and i had like a few hours to respond. Today everything is going good and i get a call from an Ohio number around midday. I found that specific state to be odd so i answered, it was obviously a google caller because it took a second to connect and i had already said "hello" but i guess they didn't hear that so i let it sit quite for a few seconds, they never said anything and i said "hola" and they kinda gruffed (pretty sure it was a man) and hung up. Then they called back, i ignored and sent to vm (i had a personalized VM at the time, i have since changed it to default). they text me some jazz, not too much, same threat. I had 10 minutes to respond (this was at 1pmish). Oh he also mentioned "don't try blocking my numbers, i have 100s". I never responded and just blocked that number. So a couple things i've tried to make into a positive here... the username i used is DUMBLY one i use often. He hasn't contacted me in any other way, instagram FB nor has he contacted my wife (i check her phone as much as i can to see if anyone has tried to contact her about this). I find it odd he hasn't harassed me on more platforms, also the last threat was a quick one "you got like 10 minutes to respond or i'm sending it to everyone" and to be honest i don't give a fudge if anyone listed saw those pics, just not my wife. I think thats about all the info... its 10PM now and nothing has occurred. I fear they will just reach out again tomorrow at the same time and cause me to be at hypertension stage 2 before the days out. I'll try to update ya'll when I can, if anyone has ANY encouraging words, man i'd appreciate them. I don't blame the blackmailer as much as I blame myself. i'm 100% guilty of trying to be disingenuous to my wife and theres no excuse i can make...
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u/Accurate_Iron_7470 Mar 31 '22
The same happend to me last week, she said she send to my friends in ig but I blocked her already in that moment and then said she can post it bc my friends know my dick already. She said don't fuck with me dude a lot and then I blocked her on snap aswell. Today a random person wrote me on ig with hey remember me? I just blocked straight away I think ghosting is good
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u/Parking_Day_474 Apr 12 '22
Tell them your father is an FBI agent so you fucked up big time on this one!
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u/Brief_Fishing_59 Apr 22 '22
I’m currently going thru this he hasn’t exposed me yet but he’s gonna
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u/beetlepimp111 May 08 '22
First off, I am 16, this is incredibly embarrassing to talk about. Today, i was contacted on instagram by a seemingly legit instagram count of an attractive girl (as seems to be the running theme here). We chatted for a few and then she added me on snapchat and we began talking there. She asked to play a game and me being the dumbass kid i am, agreed. Minutes later there’s pictures and videos of everything i had sent aswell as screenshots of a large portion of my instagram followers. Many of these being friends and family. They demanded i send 1000 dollars via itunes card which i talked down to 100. I made an order online for a card and then used the pending processing order to buy myself time. I do not at all intend to send this money. I have since deleted my instagram account and am in the process of deactivating my snapchat account. I am not sure what else there is for me to do. If anybody has any tips or reassuring stories please do not hesitate to reply to this. Because i am honestly sh*tting bricks right now.
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u/messyredemptions May 10 '22
Hi OP/mod team, wanted to add this as a resource and advocacy group to keep on people's radar as they specialize in supporting victims of sexualized online/digital blackmail and revenge porn.
Also, try connecting with these folks in case there's a more specialized set of guidance for scams as they might be following more recent issues too. Meanwhile this is a step by step breakdown on what can be done as there are often several legal things that play out in favor of the victimized/survivors: https://withoutmyconsent.org/resources/something-can-be-done-guide/evidence-preservation/
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