Blackmail out of nowhere

Blackmail out of nowhere

Or why you shouldn’t post explicit photos?

I’ll explain the issue through a brief story about a situation I recently had to deal with. A girl reached out with a problem. It all started when several half-dead Instagram accounts messaged her asking how much it costs to “spend time with her.” At first, she had no idea why there was such interest, considering she was not involved in prostitution.

After another “question,” she decided to find out “what the heck” was going on. One of the interlocutors shared a link to a site called “Slut Market” (I won’t provide the link, this is not an advertisement).

To her great surprise, the mentioned site had an article describing her “work history,” sexual preferences, and personal photos of the lady (the photos were taken from her public profile).

The girl closed her profile, stopped replying to messages, and turned to us to try to find out where this was coming from and what to do about it.

During the investigation, several other similar sites with identical texts and descriptions were found.

Important! Among those who wrote to her were people offering their services to resolve the issue with the platform. Like they could help delete the information. This is the main goal of such attacks – to create fake compromising material, and then “gently” blackmail the person, offering to solve the problem.

Of course, the whole story from start to finish is fake, but it can easily damage reputation, especially for public figures.

In such cases, we solve several tasks:

  1. We take over communication with extortionists in the right way.
  2. We take measures to deanonymize the scoundrels.
  3. We negotiate, send complaints to the content hosting sites and search engines to remove materials at least from search results.
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