Tinder / Skype Blackmail Scam

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Welcome to Scamwarners,

Change or close your whatsapp number.

Do not pay any blackmails.

Ignore all contact from him.

You can post his details here to help others.

As asked earlier as well, will simply blocking him repeatedly from Whatsapp suffice? I havent replied to him since last night. Ive already blocked his 3 numbers and am completely ignoring him.

What do you mean by closing the number? Like unsubscribing this number totally and getting a new number? What benefit will that do? he will simply have no way to contact me but it doesnt really mitigate the threat of the video getting posted which, like you said, will go away anyway if I keep ignoring.

[AlanJones]

You want him to have no way to contact you. All the time he is able to contact you, you are a potential payday for him - he can tell on WhatsApp that his messages are getting through, so he knows that you are getting them and can keep threatening that he's going to post the video.

You have to make it obvious that he can no longer contact you, so keeping hold of your video or posting it anywhere is worthless for him. Once he posts your video, his hold over you is gone as there is no longer any reason for you to pay, so he will just keep threatening until you pay.

You need to totally disapper for at least a fortnight - deactivate all your social media accounts, chat accounts, etc and block him on any email addresses that he might have got for you.

Yes if I agree closing the number temporarily will help, but Im constantly in contact with clients on whatsapp so therefore Ill just have to keep blocking his different numbers from whatsapp, so he wont be able to tell if messages are going through.

Ive already deactivated my facebook and deleted my tinder account and blocked him on skype.

Anyway lets see what happens.

Thanks for your input guys.

What do you mean by closing the number? Like unsubscribing this number totally and getting a new number?

Yes

What benefit will that do? he will simply have no way to contact me

This is the purpose.

but it doesnt really mitigate the threat of the video getting posted

Already stated do not give him power and leverage to control you

which, like you said, will go away anyway if I keep ignoring.

Yes, ignore or go broke with continuing bribes.

If he does and I say if after you put alerts and he contacts your sister this is something that you must you face.

I will repeat my self if you pay, you will continue to pay until you are broke/bankrupt or believe in the advice given.

Yes if I agree closing the number temporarily will help, but Im constantly in contact with clients on whatsapp

It is your decision we gave you the best advice we can give.

We hope all works well for you.

Yes if I agree closing the number temporarily will help, but Im constantly in contact with clients on whatsapp

It is your decision we gave you the best advice we can give.

We hope all works well for you.

Guys, I dont have any intention to pay him a dime. And I am grateful for the feedback.

Anyway ill stick to the strategy of blocking whatsapp, blocking/reporting on skype, deactivating facebook and deleting tinder.

I have already alerted some close friends to see if there is any suspicious activity on facebook like a random friend request or if someone tries to send a vid link related to me. Ive told them to report the content as well as the user immediately for harassment / blackmailing.

Anyway lets see what happens. Im pretty relaxed now.

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I sent intimate photos/video to my scammer or he says he recorded my activities on webcam, and now he is threatening to publish them. What can I do?
Unfortunately, there is not much you can do. The only advice we can give you is not to give in to blackmail demands, and once again, cut off ALL contact with the scammer. If he cannot reach you, he cannot blackmail you. If he knows that he has power over you, he will continue to abuse that power and demand more and more money. He may promise to destroy the photos/video, but remember he is a liar and a thief, and his promises are worth nothing.

The truth is, in most cases the scammer will not follow through with this threats, because following through will cost him time and money. If he tries to post anything pornographic, most public sites would delete it anyway. In the unlikely event that he does post something, you need to be proactive and contact the site immediately to have it removed. Depending on the threats, you may want to file a report with law enforcement.

Just remember for the future that any photo or video you give to ANYONE is out of your control, and anything you do on webcam can be recorded. This particular issue is not exclusive to scammers - the internet is full of stories of angry people who posted intimate details or photos/video of ex-partners after a relationship ended badly.

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I sent intimate photos/video to my scammer or he says he recorded my activities on webcam, and now he is threatening to publish them. What can I do?
Unfortunately, there is not much you can do. The only advice we can give you is not to give in to blackmail demands, and once again, cut off ALL contact with the scammer. If he cannot reach you, he cannot blackmail you. If he knows that he has power over you, he will continue to abuse that power and demand more and more money. He may promise to destroy the photos/video, but remember he is a liar and a thief, and his promises are worth nothing.

The truth is, in most cases the scammer will not follow through with this threats, because following through will cost him time and money. If he tries to post anything pornographic, most public sites would delete it anyway. In the unlikely event that he does post something, you need to be proactive and contact the site immediately to have it removed. Depending on the threats, you may want to file a report with law enforcement.

Just remember for the future that any photo or video you give to ANYONE is out of your control, and anything you do on webcam can be recorded. This particular issue is not exclusive to scammers - the internet is full of stories of angry people who posted intimate details or photos/video of ex-partners after a relationship ended badly.

The blackmailer ended up sending via inbox msg the vid to my sister. But I came up with an excuse and she forgave me. I have reported the facebook profile and reported the message as abusive.

I've read through all of you guys post. But in some cases I've was relieve and others not so much. But I was recently harrassed by a person on Skype for a video chat between me and her and got nude. Well she said she has it recorded and said to pay her a heavy amount of money if not she was gonna send it to my family and friends but I notice the person only took down the names of just family with the same last name, no one else and one of them is my sister who has two profiles almost similer name just spelling is different which tells me that their not that brilliant, neither am I right, they took down 5 names being two of them are my sister profiles. but yes I made the mistake of paying a certain amount and they ask for more as to finish paying them off, I told them to give me 3 weeks cause I didn't have the money they told me to send them a message on Gmail they said now I said 3 weeks they'll get a message and they agreed to it. I told my sister what happen she understood and told her to tell the others that if they get a message from someone that looks suspecious to mark it as spam or virus or to not accept suspecious people. I've deactivated my Facebook and other site.. now my question is what do I do? I'm scared for some reason in me that still is afraid of anything else that can happen. This was Sunday morning stop between 7am until 4am as of today started a while ago I ignored the first 2 messages then replied and then all that happen. Told them I was 16 and needed some time to gather money and they told me they don't care if I was 6 that I still had to pay. So like I saidI got by with three weeks and didn't send anything throught gmail. But I need to feel some kind of relief off my shoulders. I feel like throwing up and can't eat cause I feel all of this just weighing me down.

Welcome to Scamwarners chepo and I regret that it's under these circumstances.

They aren't going to let go of you as a paying victim, even if they go on to blackmail you into stealing money for them.

What you have done isn't illegal and as embarrassing as it may be, let's face it, being caught 'cracking one off' by a parent maybe every young person's nightmare, but as shocked as your relatives may be, they will know it's actually human nature.

The last thing you should do is pay them any money and it was a mistake to pay anything in the first place. You won't get any sympathy from them but you will from your relatives. It may not work but the simplest thing is to tell the blackmailer that you have explained it to your family and they don't give a hoot. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but the blackmailer won't waste time with someone who isn't going to pay. It's a waste of their time.

I couldn't list all the foolish things I've done in my life and I made out with the girl who became my wife with her parents upstairs and, if they'd caught us, I'd have been in deep trouble, but what the heck ? Sex isn't an abnormal activity. You don't want it pushed into your relatives faces but they won't get you arrested for it. What you've done isn't abnormal - just foolish.

Tell them to take a hike - you don't care and it won't get them any money. Then just take the medicine. It won't be the end of your life. It's only a disaster if you make it one. Old folk often know a bit more about sex than young folk think.

The only criminal in this is the person threatening you.

Good to hear. Don't get me wrong. I know. I'm 21 I just told them I was 16. I just never really thought of this actually being taken to far. But it's kinda embarrassing. I understand to take in the embarrassment. But they got name of my sister two cousins and an uncle. Being the two cousins are girls. But I feel angered depress. Useless. But like you said it's a part of nature.

You're a young man and there are many worse things in life ahead of you, if you don't mind me saying. Paying up to these people won't do anything but get the saliva of this scum going and they'll be back for more.

You have to bite the bullet and tell them where to go and if you can convince them that you don't care, so much the better, but having paid once, they'll push that bit harder.

Life's a learning process and you just have to roll with the punches, not let a jab put you down. If you get cancer, like I have, and have lost a body part over it, maybe that's a problem, but life's short enough without being miserable about it.

You've been foolish and silly - over a girl. I couldn't fit the number of guys who've been foolish and silly over a girl in this forum and, trying to make you feel guilty over it, when they're criminals is more than a bit rich.

Criminals want to impose their will on victims, make you despondent and dependent on them but this is a trap that you are creating for yourself. Don't let them get away with it.

Would your relatives even open a video file from a stranger ? I wouldn't. I never open attachments from strangers and as a scam baiter I receive many mails from scammers. You could even warn your relatives that this person is trying to infect their computers with a virus and that they should delete any attachments from people they don't know.

Yea why not. Just suck it up and be man. I appreciate it. Maybe I might actually get some kind of sleep.

The bottom line is that paying won't make them go away. It'll just make them come back for more so, sooner or later, you're going to have to deal with it and, in the great scheme of things, it's not a crime and you could have done a hundred things worse than this.

I doubt you'll find it's such a big deal and not something to lose sleep over. You're lucky it's been kept within the family but, even so, a blackmailer has limited means of using the film as they're committing a crime.

Yea I know. But I say family because that's all they put down where five names and those names on my friends list aren't in that order you would have had to scroll through the whole thing to pick them out. And those were the only names they listed down. But I've deactivated my Facebook but before that deleted all my friends.