Blackmail Scams - Sextortion Scams

Someone from Texas started talking to me and one thing led to the next, we traded pics and then she threatened to send my pic to all of my Facebook friends unless i paid her $300. I have no idea what to do. I deactivated my Facebook account and blocked and reported her kik but i have no idea what to do next. Should i turn her in to the texas police? The fine for blackmailing in texas is $500 and its a class C misdemeanor. Someone please help!

The Scammer is probably overseas . Report it on the IC3 website . Its sounds like you have done everything you can . DO NOT PAY THEM ANYTHING !

And it was a SC number.
(864) 606-9414

This happened to me too - same number but gay dating app - profile said 20 - got the same line you did - wanted 1,000 to buy a new MacBook Pro

It is 100% a scam.

Read page 1 first post and follow the directions.

Then read the whole page and some of the other pages/post.

Report this to IC3.

Victims who come here and are still unsure if this is a scam , can read and review the following resources . And if you are in crisis can seek anonymous assistance at the following resources .


http://www.connectsafely.org/faq-on-sexting-and-sextortion/

What are my options for getting help?


* Contacting a crisis hotline or chat service, online or via phone. These can be found all over the US and in many other countries. This is a good option if you prefer to remain anonymous while exploring how to proceed, and crisis lines can often refer you to a victim advocate or other legal adviser near you. [In the US, you can search for one by zip code here or visit CrisisChat.org.]

* Talking with a victim advocate or social worker in your town or city. In the US, there are victim advocates in county offices, police stations, domestic violence prevention centers, rape crisis centers, sheriff’s offices, and offices of state attorneys general. Victim advocates can help you gather evidence, put together a safety plan (figure out how to keep you safe from what’s being threatened), and/or get a civil protection or anti-stalking order against the person threatening you. [You can do a Web search for “victim advocate” in your location or, in the US, call the National Organization for Victim Assistance in the Washington, D.C., area – 1-800-TRY-NOVA/800-879-6682 or go to tryNOVA.org.]


Lifeline Crisis Chat
Toll Free
1-800-273-8255
http://www.crisischat.org/


National Organization for Victim Assistance

http://www.trynova.org/







https://www.cleveland.police.uk/advice- ... rtion.aspx

Sextortion Advice


The below advice is based on recent experience and methodologies adopted by various law enforcement agencies both in the UK and overseas but each case is different and a flexible approach should be adopted.
1.Do NOT panic. You have already taken the first big step by recognising you are the ‘victim’ in this and that you may require support to help you through this difficult time. The Police will take your case seriously, will deal with it in confidence, and will not make judgements on your behaviour.
2.Do NOT pay. Although some victims who have paid what the offenders have demanded and hear no more about it, many others who have paid have then continued to receive further and often increasing demands. In some cases even when the demands have been met the offenders will still go on to post the videos anyway.
3.Do NOT communicate further with the offenders. Obtain screen shots of any communication. Deactivate your Facebook account and use the online reporting process to report the matter to Skype, YouTube etc. to have any video blocked and to set up an alert in case the video resurfaces. Deactivating the Facebook account rather than shutting it down will ensure data is preserved and will assist law enforcement in obtaining evidence. The account can also be reactivated at any time ensuring online memories are not lost forever.

The Police can assist you with more specific advice regarding contacting the various sites / providers etc. (See Below)
1.In general once they're blocked, the offenders can't contact you. If they are unable to do so then they can't threaten you or make demands, so they tend to move on fairly quickly. However, they may try to utilise other contact routes that they are aware of, so be mindful of all sites where communication has been made or you are linked to.
2.If you have already paid, check to see if the money has been collected. If it has, and if you are able, then make a note of where it was collected from. If it hasn't, then you can cancel the payment - and the sooner you do that the better.






Organized sextortion led four British men to suicide​

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/11 ... blackmail/

Sextortion/webcam blackmail is a booming business for organised crime groups from the Philippines, Ivory Coast and Morocco, and young men across the UK are the most sought-after victims.







Utah mother shares experience of son who died by suicide after ‘sextortion’ scam

SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah mother is speaking out about the disturbing trend called Sextortion, where people online use personal pictures to blackmail victims.

http://fox13now.com/2017/01/13/utah-mot ... tion-scam/







Manila police raid 'sextortion' suspects
Sextortion support group offers help

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-3 ... nes-police

Ok, first of all, hello everyone, and thank you for letting me join to this page, I hope you can help me with my problem, because as I have readen, I'm not the only one who was foolish enough to fell into this kind of trap.

The thing is this, today I met a "girl" on kik, we started chatting like normal, "she" chatted pretty human to me, so that was my first mistake, trusting "her" (I was about to put here the code name of this person, but as I managed to remember, I should not do that, cause that person would find out).

Then, she asked me my location, and my second mistake was to give "her" my location (I think it's important to know that I'm not from the US or any english speaking country, so if I gotta do some sort of legal thing, I might be screwed), and then "she" gave me "hers" (I also think I´m not allowed to reveal that too, at least not yet).

And then, the biggest mistake, was to trade the forbidden pics, "she" said I was sexy and all that (and I know I'm not, I don't look so good).

My fourth mistake was to give "her" my email, but I gave "her" a secondary email, one that I don't use much (maybe this was my less foolish mistake).

And then, "she" asked me my phone number, and here the problem begins... I said no, cause I'm not sure I can trust her a 100%, and then, "she" showed me a screenshot with my pics about to be posted on FB (I recognized the interface) accusing me from being a pervert, and from here, she started threaten me that she will leave me alone if I join a web page were "she" is a camgirl.

I was pissed and scared, but when "she" started to ask me for money, my credit card and all that, and then I started to act like "I don't give a (insert strong language here)" and I said I have no credit card, do whatever you want, I don't care, and then "she" said that it's just 20 dollars, but it seems I'm not gonna give her money, so she is gonna post the images, and from now, I think they might be somewhere on the web right now.

For now, I just blocked "her", I didn't asked "her" for the web page (cause I didn't felt like it, and maybe I should have do it), I took screenshots, in case I get into some sort of big legal problem or for some reason they could find my real profile and start insulting me if they actually think I'm a real pervert, and also reported her profile to kik, wish I think it's gonna make my profile banned cause my pictures weren't removed, I just posted the report with the chat history just how I lefted off.

I'm quiet, but still worried, after reading all the experiences here, I'm just a little bit more calmed down.

Did I did the right thing? what else should I do? I have some information, but not phone numbers or emails, just the things I commented before.

Hope you can help me, I'm still worried, I only care that other people don't get the wrong idea about me, cause I was cheated. If you need more information, just ask me, I think what I have would be enough to at least catch this person.

Thank you for posting. First of all, if your username is your real name, we need to change that as soon as possible. Please private message either me or one of the other moderators or administrators (usernames in green and red) with your choices of a new username.

After that, please post the email addresses/names/phone numbers that the scammer is using. This will help warn others.

Follow the advice given in the first post of this topic:

https://scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic ... 3&t=116974

Sorry for the long post.

I messaged a girl on okcupid 2 days ago. Her profile said she was 19 years old. I sent her a message saying "Hey, how's your night going?" to which she replied with small talk and then her phone number asking me to text her.

I text her and after a couple of minutes of small talk she said said she had some newer pictures if I wanted to see them. There was no indicator that these would be inappropriate, so I said sure, why not? She sends me two pictures of her in her underwear and asks for a picture of me. After these I asked again how old she was and she said she was 19. Foolishly I sent a full body clothed shot and she asked for something more interesting. I regret it, but I sent a d*ck pic to which she replied with full nudes. I then said "you're sexy, I'm tempted to ask you to meet up".

After this she stopped sending any messages and I sent a few more messages asking if she was still there, and gave up and told her to lose my number then I deleted her messages. The next evening I start receiving calls while I was at work from a number I didn't recognize, and also from her number. I ignored them due to being at work, but never got any texts or voicemails. A couple of hours later I get another call and answer it and the person said he was Investigator Dylan Harper from the VA State Police and immediately asked for my name and phone number. I replied with "if you're calling me you should already have my information". He said that he had been contacted by a gentleman saying that I had sent his 16 year old daughter nude photographs and I was in possession of child pornography of his daughter. He said I could be facing charges of possession of child pornography, exposing myself to a minor, and soliciting a minor for sex.

He then explained to me that the father, Mr. Knight, hadn't yet filed charges against me and had asked if I'd be willing to speak with him on the phone. I was pretty freaked out at this point so I agreed. He ended the call with me and said I'd be hearing from the girl's father shortly. Around a half hour to an hour later I get a call from the girl's phone number from presumably the father. He spoke in a fairly southern accent, but that's not uncommon where I live and he referred to me as "sir" and "son" quite a bit. He told me that he knew I had been texting inappropriately with his 16 year old daughter and that his wife is ready to have me locked up, but him being a God fearing man he wanted to hear my side.

I apologized and told my side of the story telling him that I had no idea his daughter was underage and practically begged him to not press charges. He eventually offered the idea of me paying the cost of damages that occurred to his home and belongings when his daughter flipped out. Among those were a cell phone, a laptop, and various damages to doors, etc... He said he would discuss with his wife and call back.

10-15 minutes went by and he calls back and said his wife agreed to not press charges if I would pay $1200 for her laptop and agree to never contact his family again. I agreed to that and he said he'd call me this morning to arrange payment after he had spoken to a family friend to see if they'd receive payment since he didn't want me to have his personal info.

This morning I received a call and text message from the daughter's number saying that I should call him ASAP to "discuss the matter at hand". I had come across this thread last night and decided to ignore him. About an hour later I get another text saying that he and his wife would be filing charges and that I wasn't the honest man he thought I was. A little while later I got a few calls from another number I didn't recognize and didn't answer.

The numbers I've been contacted from are:
540-242-1529 (Investigator Dylan Harper)
540-407-8192 (the daughter's number/Mr. Knight)
540-251-2864 (4 missed calls back to back that I didn't answer and may or may not be related to this)

I attempted to reverse search the phone numbers, but didn't get very far with that. Later today I asked a friend to call the numbers and the Investigator number went straight to a generic voicemail, the daughter's phone number went to a recording saying "thank you" and beeping, and the unknown number went straight to just beeping. I'm pretty sure this whole mess is a scam, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit on-edge and anxious about it.

Since this morning, I haven't received any other calls or texts and I've updated my social media privacy settings and deleted my online dating accounts. I plan to further ignore any calls and texts that I don't recognize.

It is a scam.

Report this to IC3 https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

You have not committed a crime. The scammer has.

Read page one first post and follow the directions. You can also read the entire post and the post in this thread.

540-242-1529 (Investigator Dylan Harper) Spoofed number/(540) 242-1529
Non Fixed Voip
540-407-8192 (the daughter's number/Mr. Knight) VoIp
540-251-2864 (4 missed calls back to back that I didn't answer and may or may not be related to this) VoIp

Thanks Byron!
It's good to know that this is a scam. Certainly takes a lot of weight off my shoulders and definitely a lesson learned. Thanks for letting me know those numbers were spoofed and voip.

In addition to the previous info, the profile name on okcupid was "beautifukindlove" and the girl said her name was Jessica. We didn't at any point exchange last names, social media information, and neither the father nor the investigator identified me by name. Her okcupid profile was deleted last night around the time I was getting the calls. Hope this info helps some other folks.

Ok, now I'm in a more secure spot, thanks to the moderators.

So, can I post every thing that scam told me about it's information? cause that person gave me a location, but the only thing I have is the name and surname of the user and the user code.

In addition to the previous info, the profile name on okcupid was "beautifukindlove" and the girl said her name was Jessica. We didn't at any point exchange last names, social media information, and neither the father nor the investigator identified me by name. Her okcupid profile was deleted last night around the time I was getting the calls. Hope this info helps some other folks.

It's common for them to delete them fairly quickly . If we find them we'll photograph and post them .

Ok, now I'm gonna complete my previous post by giving all the info I just could get from this person.

The name that was using was "hale melanie" and the kik code was "halemelanie112" (I bet the number is the number of the multi account that the scammer has created, so if someone finds a similar account, it might change to 113 or 114, etc). It also said that is from Florida, and she is 20 years old.

One thing that is really important (I guess), is that when you post a picture, kik will get you a warning that the other kik user has an outdated kik version, but still, she will say that you are cute.

Unfortunately, that's all the information I managed to get, so, don't show your pics right away just because the girl is cute, just like I did it (and what a huge mistake it was), Removed (BW).

And finally, this person said that in less than 24 hours my pics will be viral, well, those 24 hours happened already, but I still haven't found death threaths on my kik account or in my secondary mailbox, so, I guess this person failed to cheat on me even further, I guess now I can breath safe and never trust a sexy looking girl right away.

Thanks to everyone, hope my information is worth it.

PD: even if I felt into a huge trap, I've found a very usual pattern that the scams, spambots or catchfishes uses on kik, if you want, I might tell you those patterns.