Sexting & Sextortion Scams (2 Viewers)

[bigdaddysaints]

I got a text message once that said if i didn't send money to xx account then all the inapproriate images on my phone would be sent to all my friends and family. Since i knew i didn't have any i just told them go ahead and i just blocked the number, But if i was one to have that kind of stuff on my phone, it would have put me in a pretty bad position, would i have believed them that they really had access?

I do know that when i sell stuff on Facebook Marketplace, i will get messages if they can contact me by text message. the first time i was asked i didn't think anything about it, then they were like, i sent a 6 digit code to you that i need to verify you are a real person ( i didn't do it, i just blocked them). After, i realize how easy it is for someone to gain access to others phones and potentially get hacked and or blackmailed.

 

[urzombiefood]

I once had some one try to sextort me. It was the usual "we got you doing some nasty stuff". So I responded I have lots more where that came from if your are interested. They quit responding to me .

Even the dam scammers don't want to look at it.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

I once had some one try to sextort me. It was the usual "we got you doing some nasty stuff". So I responded I have lots more where that came from if your are interested. They quit responding to me .

Even the dam scammers don't want to look at it.

The scammer be like:

 

[Dago]

When I was a teen, it would have definitely forked me up. If it happened now, I would tell them to have at it but please use one where I am well groomed. I'd even offer to send another if I didn't like the ones they had

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Don't send compromising pictures to anyone you haven't met in person. Make sure you trust that person.

Agreed, but we are dealing with human beings here, who make mistakes.. also, many of these humans are teenagers who’s brains arent yet fully developed .. hopefully people/teens will become more aware that these crimes are occurring so they can avoid them .

 

[SystemShock]

Care to translate that to English ?

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulator Program. It is a free image manipulation program that can do just about everything that Adobe Photoshop can. On a related note, GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix"... that's a longer explanation.

GIMP

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor

www.gimp.org

Open source means the source code of the program is openly available and its free to the general public, and the public is allowed to make changes to the code and distribute it on your own (as long as you make it clear they are your changes). The development of GIMP rests on volunteers, just like any other open source program.

But being Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, or any other image manipulation program, they all still have to abide by certain standards, and those standards are not created from scratch; they usually come in the way of modules or libraries that are obtained from the people/institutions who set those standards.

And AI (whichever you are using) is no different. AI doesn't create stuff out of the blue from nothing. It uses the same resources, the same standards as image/video manipulation programs (or apps, I prefer "program", I'm old school like that )

And it is all code.

 

[SystemShock]

When I was a teen, it would have definitely forked me up.

Any polaroids we should know about?

 

[Optimus Prime]

1. Social media companies don't care. They never will and they will do as little as possible to stem the problem.

2. I'd love to know how many of those 12,500 cases resulted in prosecution. I bet that number is far below 1%.

3. Until we demand social media companies create a verification process (a real one) then they will continue to undermine every aspect of our lives. Social media companies will fight it all the way because bots, trolls and multiple accounts are all counted as "unique users" and consume a lot of ads increasing the bottom lines of tech companies.

I deal with piracy issues daily and if the real number of bots on tech platforms were ever exposed it would be so significant it would create a market crash.

from article
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..........“Instagram needs to own a partial responsibility for this,” Margaret said. “We hold our son accountable. He made a bad choice. We’re not saying it’s Instagram’s fault. But I still feel like they should care more about trying to protect these kids.”

A spokesperson for Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, declined to comment on this specific case, but urged users to report both the accounts and the direct messages to speed up the investigation and have a profile removed. (The Washington Post viewed confirmations that the family reported the account.)

Meta established policies last year so that users younger than 16 would automatically have high privacy settings enabled, making it more difficult for people they don’t know to communicate with them. These changes happened months after Christopher’s victimization. In partnership with Thorn, an organization that combats child sex trafficking, Meta also launched a sextortion hub to help users report the harassment.

Meta products also restrict users over 19 years old from sending messages to teens who don’t follow them. (Of course, any user can fake birth dates when establishing an account.) Meta’s Parental Supervision tools allow parents to see when their teenager has blocked or reported an account.

Snapchat recently created a reporting tool specifically for quickly alerting the company about cases of financial sextortion. It lets the users notify the platform by clicking the “Nudity or sexual content” reporting tab and then clicking, “They leaked / are threatening to leak my nudes.”

“I can’t stress enough that we have to encourage users to report bad actors to us, and we have expanded our in-app reporting tools to include a tailored reporting reason specifically around financial sextortion,” said Jacqueline Beauchere, Snapchat’s global head of platform safety.

(The company did its own study this year that found that 65 percent of the teenage and young adult respondents in Australia, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States had either been targeted or knew someone targeted for sextortion in some way.)..............

 

[Optimus Prime]

Agreed, but we are dealing with human beings here, who make mistakes.. also, many of these humans are teenagers who’s brains arent yet fully developed .. hopefully people/teens will become more aware that these crimes are occurring so they can avoid them .

from article

kid lasted 2 days
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Researchers who study sextortion say teens are particularly vulnerable because of the stage of their brain development.

“Our center receives an incredibly disproportionate number of help requests from male victims,” said Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center and a professor of criminology at Florida Atlantic University.

“Presuming that sexting is a precursor to sextortion, it is possible that females may send nudes more so in the context of a romantic relationship whereas males may do so more casually and experimentally. This fact makes males more of an easy target.”...............

.......At 16, Christopher was one of the few students at his high school in northwest Ohio without a social media account. But with a trip to Europe with a school sports team coming up, he asked his parents if he could sign up for Instagram to share photos from the trip with friends and family back home. They were hesitant to allow it, but he had worked hard to raise the money to go and they felt he had shown ample signs of responsibility, so they agreed.

Before Christopher opened his account, Margaret and William sat him down for a serious talk: Don’t accept requests from people you don’t know, his parents told him. Don’t post anything incriminating. Stay safe. Have fun.

In the week before the trip, Christopher built up his friend list and flew off to Europe with his team.

Christopher was gone for just two days when his parents started receiving a series of increasingly panicked texts from their son that started with “I messed up.”...........

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulator Program. It is a free image manipulation program that can do just about everything that Adobe Photoshop can. On a related note, GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix"... that's a longer explanation.

GIMP

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor

www.gimp.org

Open source means the source code of the program is openly available and its free to the general public, and the public is allowed to make changes to the code and distribute it on your own (as long as you make it clear they are your changes). The development of GIMP rests on volunteers, just like any other open source program.

But being Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, or any other image manipulation program, they all still have to abide by certain standards, and those standards are not created from scratch; they usually come in the way of modules or libraries that are obtained from the people/institutions who set those standards.

And AI (whichever you are using) is no different. AI doesn't create stuff out of the blue from nothing. It uses the same resources, the same standards as image/video manipulation programs (or apps, I prefer "program", I'm old school like that )

And it is all code.

Thanks .. when i hear ’GIMP’, i think of Zed, Butch and Marcellus Wallace .

 

[Optimus Prime]

Jesus

From article
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.........The government alleges that, after the men persuaded DeMay to send nude photos, they announced their intentions in chat logs, now made public by the Justice Department.

According to the indictment, Samuel Ogoshi used the name “dani.robertts” to extort DeMay and others, and also urged victims to commit suicide.

dani.robertts: I have screenshot all ur followers and tags can send this nudes to everyone and also send your nudes to your Family and friends Until it goes viral … All you’ve to do is to cooperate with me and I won’t expose you

dani.robertts: Are you gonna cooperate with me

dani.robertts: Just pay me rn [Just pay me right now]

dani.robertts: And I won’t expose you

Jordan DeMay: How much

dani.robertts: $1000

DeMay sent $300, which failed to stop the extortion. They demanded more and increased their threats. DeMay told them he would kill himself, and they urged him on.

dani.robertts: Enjoy your miserable life

Jordan DeMay: I’m kms rn [I’m killing myself right now]

Jordan DeMay: Bc of you [Because of you]

dani.robertts: Good

dani.robertts: Do that fast

dani.robertts: Or I’ll make you do it

dani.robertts: I swear to God

Following his interaction with the men, DeMay shot himself.

The indictment also details another case in which similar tactics were used against an unnamed 21-year-old from Wisconsin, who was also urged to commit suicide, according to the indictment.

dani.robertts: I’ll make this go viral

dani.robertts: I will make you regret you[r] life

dani.robertts: I will make u commit suicide

dani.robertts: I promise you I swear

The men, who were only a few years older than the boys they allegedly targeted, are being charged on four counts, including sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor resulting in death, conspiracy to sexually exploit minors and conspiracy to distribute child pornography. If convicted, they face decades in prison in the United States.................

 

[Optimus Prime]

Thanks .. when i hear ’GIMP’, i think of Zed, Butch and Marcellus Wallace .

me too

 

[SystemShock]

Thanks .. when i hear ’GIMP’, i think of Zed, Butch and Marcellus Wallace .

Actually, the name alludes to the Pulp Fiction character.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Jesus

From article
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.........The government alleges that, after the men persuaded DeMay to send nude photos, they announced their intentions in chat logs, now made public by the Justice Department.

According to the indictment, Samuel Ogoshi used the name “dani.robertts” to extort DeMay and others, and also urged victims to commit suicide.

dani.robertts: I have screenshot all ur followers and tags can send this nudes to everyone and also send your nudes to your Family and friends Until it goes viral … All you’ve to do is to cooperate with me and I won’t expose you

dani.robertts: Are you gonna cooperate with me

dani.robertts: Just pay me rn [Just pay me right now]

dani.robertts: And I won’t expose you

Jordan DeMay: How much

dani.robertts: $1000

DeMay sent $300, which failed to stop the extortion. They demanded more and increased their threats. DeMay told them he would kill himself, and they urged him on.

dani.robertts: Enjoy your miserable life

Jordan DeMay: I’m kms rn [I’m killing myself right now]

Jordan DeMay: Bc of you [Because of you]

dani.robertts: Good

dani.robertts: Do that fast

dani.robertts: Or I’ll make you do it

dani.robertts: I swear to God

Following his interaction with the men, DeMay shot himself.

The indictment also details another case in which similar tactics were used against an unnamed 21-year-old from Wisconsin, who was also urged to commit suicide, according to the indictment.

dani.robertts: I’ll make this go viral

dani.robertts: I will make you regret you[r] life

dani.robertts: I will make u commit suicide

dani.robertts: I promise you I swear

The men, who were only a few years older than the boys they allegedly targeted, are being charged on four counts, including sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor resulting in death, conspiracy to sexually exploit minors and conspiracy to distribute child pornography. If convicted, they face decades in prison in the United States.................

was discussing this with Oye, i think one of the struggles for us 'boomers' is that we we don't conceive of 'cyber' the way kids do - it's not a real place to us. i think we consider it a fancy version of when we talked on the phone late at night for hours at a time
i think the 'virtual' landscape is a real place for kids - like an actual reality. maybe even more important that irl for some

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

from article

kid lasted 2 days
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Researchers who study sextortion say teens are particularly vulnerable because of the stage of their brain development.

“Our center receives an incredibly disproportionate number of help requests from male victims,” said Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center and a professor of criminology at Florida Atlantic University.

“Presuming that sexting is a precursor to sextortion, it is possible that females may send nudes more so in the context of a romantic relationship whereas males may do so more casually and experimentally. This fact makes males more of an easy target.”...............

.......At 16, Christopher was one of the few students at his high school in northwest Ohio without a social media account. But with a trip to Europe with a school sports team coming up, he asked his parents if he could sign up for Instagram to share photos from the trip with friends and family back home. They were hesitant to allow it, but he had worked hard to raise the money to go and they felt he had shown ample signs of responsibility, so they agreed.

Before Christopher opened his account, Margaret and William sat him down for a serious talk: Don’t accept requests from people you don’t know, his parents told him. Don’t post anything incriminating. Stay safe. Have fun.

In the week before the trip, Christopher built up his friend list and flew off to Europe with his team.

Christopher was gone for just two days when his parents started receiving a series of increasingly panicked texts from their son that started with “I messed up.”...........

it's why tobacco, alcohol, driving, et al is regulated against young people using them
and why the interwebs have similar guardrails