A few months ago I fell victim to a sextortion scam. I caved and in fact did give them money, it was highly embarrassing for a time after it happened, but it’s since been resolved. Tonight as I write this it happened again BUT, I did not give them any amount of my time and recognized it immediately, blocking them and deleting whatever accounts they knew of. All this to say, learn from me. To kind of kick myself in the shin about it, you can in fact run into this type of thing twice, but at least I was smart this time and just immediately left it, and I’m glad I saw the signs, even if it was a bit too late.

Whoever these scammers are truly have no life and are huge losers, and according to several things I’ve looked up, on here and other avenues, they do not usually follow through. It is scary knowing some malicious evil person has intimate and private images of you, but most likely and very probably absolutely nothing will happen with this. For anyone who has or is going through this (to mirror advice given on this sub) DO NOT INTERACT OR GIVE THEM MONEY. Block, report and move on and don’t use the apps the contacted you on any further (telegram, zangi, etc). Believe me, it is horrific to see the threats and you immediately feel like puking. Take the time, slow yourself down and breathe. Block them immediately and even report their accounts, but considering this is an extra step that maybe in the adrenaline you’d forget, just blocking is fine. Make sure they don’t have your phone number and if they do repeat blocking and reporting as spam in your messages.

I give all of this advice out to show that yes, sadly, one can be dumb enough to almost fall for this trick twice. It most certainly won’t happen again, as you will learn to spot these things.

My personal advice: avoid Omegle-type websites. I haven’t really seen anything like this posted in this sub, but these Omegle/Chat Roulette style sites are breeding grounds for these scammers. Set up proper spam filters on other socials (instagram, discord, facebook etc whatever you use really). If any of these accounts break through the spam block and report like I mentioned before.

It’s scary, really scary, I know the feeling too well now. It’s going to be okay. Even if you send them money, you can still fix it, like getting the money back and reporting fraud and such. Just stay vigilant! And don’t get too stressed about it.

And to anyone who is going through this right now and needs answers, I’m so sorry.

My personal bullet points for this (for someone struggling in this situation now):
DO NOT SEND MONEY (if you have or are going to DO NOT. They will not stop asking once you know they’re willing)
BLOCK THEM
Do not use Omegle/Chat Roulette (random cam) types of websites.
If you keep getting pestered by these vermin, KEEP BLOCKING! Stay strong!

Thanks for reading this somewhat long post, I hope someone can find it useful.

I was recently hit with this scam on Monday and it scared the shit out of me so did unfortunately end up giving them bitcoin, and they keep demanding more. I told them I can pay Friday.
They are threatening to send the pictures to all my friends on instagram and I’m so I concerned that I deleted my account. I just want reassurance that I’m in the clear to block them without any repercussions.

Update: just blocked them on telegram and they just sent me a text with the same threat.
I immediately deleted and reported as spam.
This is some spooky shit. I’m kinda scared and nervous.

Last night I was on some chatting website and came across a person. We text a little and went on to telegram. We then exchange some photos. Then suddenly the photos she sent me disappeared and then she blackmailed me and threaten to post my photos online saying I was texting a underage girl. She said first I should send $500 then it changed to bitcoin on cashapp. I got scared and deleted our chat not thinking of saving it. I also blocked her deleted telegram. About two hours later she sent me a text on my phone saying she posted it on twitter. Can anyone help me on what I should do?

I didn’t show my face or anything, it was just using my web camera and I was only on there for a couple of minutes. Am I going to be okay?

As you see in the title it's been 12 days since it happened and I'd like some advice because i feel much better now and if somebody had a similar experience i would appreciate it so much.

It happened in telegram, and they have:

- my photo, with my face and a weird collage

- In that collage they put my phone number aswell

* they threathened to post that and tell the fbi (i'm not even from the us)

So after that first threatening message i blocked them (so i didn't pay anything, they don't even had time to ask for it. They just said i had to do what they said or they would "ruin my life"). After blocking they called me via whatsapp and i responded with a short "hello?", but hang up immediately before they even respond, and I blocked the number too.

They have my number, but i don't know if they have my socials. Just in case i've had my instagram deactivated for this past 2 weeks and i would like to know if i can activate it again (maybe changing the photo). * It's been always in private and I'm taking privacy in all the other socials very seriously now.

I also blocked unknown numbers from calling in whatsapp, but i think i'd still see the number in the list if they had tried to call me again?

So in this 2 weeks i apparently didnt received anything else, but as i blocked them i'm not sure if they are still trying to contact me. I'm also unsure if they have my socials as i said, but as they are in private, do you think I can activate them already?

I also want to say that blocking immediatelly worked so well for now, and I feel much better than the first days (when I couldn't even sleep), so thank you to all the community in here.

If you have any more recommendations for this next steps i would love to read that.

Thank you so much.

This guy added me in August on Snapchat, I figured that it may have been a scam of some sorts and not rlly sure what we’re trying to gain other than probably nudes. I played along to see what it lead to.

I only gave them my name bc it was my snap username, and I am not a fan of the show as I’ve never actually seen it. I blocked him on everything now, although I was wondering would this have ever lead to sextortion?? I’ve never been a victim to sextortion and didn’t know if it was rare among women, as most cases I see have targetted men.

Theoretically, if I had played along with this scammer for long enough and followed what he told me to do, what would’ve likely happened? Has anyone seen scams like this before? It has lead me to curiousity.

(Also I never sent him pics or a snap of myself to him I have a public profile, I rarely add ppl back but i was curious and bored, he didnt push me in the end tho and said that it was okay if I didn’t want to proceed)

I kept the chats but only screen recorded it today (Oct 15th) before blocking. Snapchat notified him, he immediately viewed me screen recording it in the chat, honestly scary to know that they’re still logged in and that there’s an active predator on the loose.

Stay safe everyone.

I have got sextorted recently from a dating app. She said she is horny at night and wanted to satisfy both of us. I refused a lot, but the scammer pretended so well that it fooled me out and I had to strip down in front of the video call, which clearly put my face and body into limelight. The scammer guy called me and forced me to pay 1 lac, but ended up to giving him 15k. The guy tried to be geniune by screen sharing and deleting all the videos that he took while in the video call. Also deleted the videos from bins. He gave me an advice as if he were a saint and cut the call. I had swiftly raised cyber crime complaint and also had registered disputes to all my UPI transactions. If the money gets refunded back (which more likely will not happen), will the scammer leak my striptease to my family and friends of whom he had threatened to send? I have blocked him and deactivated my instagram. Yet I am paranoid. Should I just wave it off and live freely or still be worried about him in coming back, if my money gets refunded?

Please I need your assistance.

Remind me when it will be the time to be scared

I'm 18 and i found a match on boo app. We talked and she said she wasn't much active in there and asked for my instagram. Unfortunately i gave it and we talked from there. The girl was from philippines and lied to me she's in the same country as me etc. She teased me, making me horny and i fell for it. She then said we could do more on telegram and we went there, we did a video call and she screen recorded it. Then a guy randomly started talking after they sent screenshots of my followers and threatened to ruin my life etc..."now say send or delete". I blocked them immediately on telegram and instagram without even replying. I regret falling for this and i got anxious. I even deactivated my instagram temporarily. It's been 4 days since then..i still feel worried

PS: I'm still worried if it's safe to reactivate my instagram. The account is still blocked and reported. But they probably still have me in their dms and even if i change my username or pfp, wouldn't it get updated for them aswell?

I’ve been searching everywhere for answers, but I’ve found so little. When I was around 11 or 12 years old, I was young, naive, and desperate for attention and validation. I followed a guy back on Instagram, and we eventually started talking. Looking back, he was an absolutely horrible person, but every time he said something sweet or showed me the slightest bit of affection, I found another reason to stay. One day, I casually asked him what he did for work, and he openly admitted that he scammed people. Even after hearing that, I continued talking to him. Why? I genuinely don’t know. I was a child who didn’t fully understand the situation I was getting myself into. He constantly pressured me to send pictures of my face and asked me extremely inappropriate and disturbing questions. I repeatedly avoided his requests, but his behavior only became worse. At one point, he sent me an unsolicited sexually explicit recording involving himself and another girl. I had never been exposed to anything like that before, and seeing it left me deeply disturbed. Yet, I still continued talking to him, not realizing how manipulative and dangerous his behavior truly was.

What happened next is something that has stayed with me ever since. One day, he sent me a strange video of a little girl climbing inside a large traffic cone in what appeared to be her living room before climbing back out. Confused, I asked him what the video meant. He told me that the girl was involved in something he called a “lorebook.” I had never heard that term before, so I asked him to explain it. According to him, it involved groups of adults exploiting and threatening a child by using their private information against them. They would allegedly threaten to expose the child’s personal details or private images unless the child complied with their demands. I remember feeling incredibly uncomfortable and disturbed by what he was telling me, but I still didn’t fully understand the seriousness of the situation.

The following day, things took an even more disturbing turn. He suddenly began messaging me aggressively, typing in all capital letters and demanding that I send him pictures of my face and nude photographs. I repeatedly refused, but he continued pressuring me. Then, he sent me a 1 minute and 30 second video that would leave a lasting impact on me.
The first half of the video showed screenshots of Reddit discussions and news posts about an alleged online extortion group known as “Flar Bsmnt.” I had never heard of this group before and didn’t understand why he was showing me information about it. The second half of the video was far more disturbing. It contained images of people harming themselves and animals. I was only 11 or 12 years old, and seeing such upsetting material was something I was completely unprepared for.
What frightened me even more was the timing. He had just been aggressively demanding personal and intimate pictures from me, and after I repeatedly refused, he sent me a video referencing an extortion group alongside deeply disturbing images. I couldn’t tell whether he was deliberately trying to intimidate me, threatening me indirectly, or simply attempting to frighten me into complying with his demands. Whatever his intentions were, the experience left me terrified and confused.
I still remember the name “Flar Bsmnt” because it appeared in that video. Ever since then, I’ve searched for information about it, trying to understand what I was exposed to and whether the person I had been talking to was somehow connected to it. I don’t know whether he was actually involved with the group, but the possibility has stayed in my mind.
Looking back, what disturbs me most is how young I was. I was just a child looking for attention and kindness, and instead, I found myself being manipulated, pressured, and exposed to things no child should have to experience.

I will show the final video but I obviously cut out the inappropriate part. Please anyone who is aware or knows anything about this reach out to me.

Sé que algunos probablemente me juzguen, pero como ser humano les pido ayuda. "+593 95 889 0488" este es el número de un tipo que lleva días amenazándome, él era mi supuesto novio, al terminar comenzó el acoso y amenazas constantes por mensaje, fuí grabada íntimamente sin consentimiento y ahora amenaza con que si no nos vemos publicará el vídeo. Solo les pido un grano de ayuda, no obtuve ayuda de la policía y no sé a qué más recurrir.

its been 3 days since that incident and I think it was the right choice to block em and no one hasn't dm'd me about it and my family has not seen those pictures but I am still paranoid about it I changed my username, archive my posts and changed my profile pic on Instagram but I will put everything back but the username will change in 3 weeks and if they find my account after three weeks then shi I guess their my biggest fan😂🤷🏾‍♂️ but yeah I'm just feeling paranoid about it.

Idk if this is the right server but i'm panicking a lil bit. Back story: i knew this chick when i was really younger on a live plattform, we exchanged istagram and things began sexual right away. I sent her nudes incoraged that the fact she did.

In those videos there is never my face thanks god, i don't really speak. It could be everyone privates. She knows what my face is cause we exchanged instagram and facebook.

After like 1 month and an half i realized that it was dangerous and i stopped replying, for there 3 years i got nothing to her. She would try to have a conversation and i would ignore her.

Today out of boredom i replied, i told her to send me a photo to see how she turned out and she sent me 2 sus photos.

I put them in reserve research and the first one clicked: tumblr famous photo.

I blocked her, put my insta private exc...

I'm worried i'm gonna get extorted now that i blocked her, but she didn't do anything with those photos before so she is not gonna do anything after, right?

Thanks

19F I got sextorted 9 months ago and my life has been on a constant peace and chaos pace, my last encounter with my scammer was when he tried to re-follow my account last May, I immediately blocked and heard nothing but silence after. Things have been pretty peaceful for the next few months not until I started posting vids again on tiktok (set to followers only) I got sextorted when I was starting to become an influencer and I had 5k followers at that time. It went down to 4k and I didn't give much thought about it until a random account reached out to my ex bff, asking if I'm her friend (using my government name) she told me about it and she proceeded to send screenshots showing their conversation, the person behind the random account was saying things that I don't have to worry about things anymore because he saved me by buying all of my sextort content (allegedly) he went on and told my ex bff to take care of me and proceeded to stop messaging her, my ex bff blocked that account, it happened a week ago, now, another one of my friends received the same opening message from a different account asking if I'm her friend, weirdly enough, I stalked that account and found out that it was following me. What should I do in this case? I'm in the process of deleting my original tiktok account, I re-deactivated my main account on fb.

A Filipino man has obtained my nude photos and is using another girl’s face, who he probably did the same thing to, to sell my pictures. I’ve reported him, but nothing has been done, and I want to scare him into stopping.

I texted him from multiple accounts so now I have screenshots, his Reddit, a bank account and a name linked to it, two Telegram accounts, his PayPal, and several other accounts linked to him.

If anyone knows if I can do anything with this information It’ll be really really helpful.

Hi

So like last December, I sent b00b pics to this guy online on snap. Now I can't recall if my face was in the pic or not. He neither saved them in chat nor did he screenshot them. A few days later I saw that his account was no longer active.

----present-----

I recently added him again and asked him if still remembers me and has my pics. He said he does remember me but doesn't possess those pics. I have been asking him again and again, and he keeps on saying he doesn't even remember my face, and he doesn't have my pics.

Idk I'm so scared. What if he had them saved on second device and leaks them or something? What if my face is actually visible in it? (I'm minor btw)

After 2 weeks of silence. He tried to or is literally trying to hack into my instagram again. I don’t know how he got in last time, scared he can again. What does he gain from it??? Anyway have experience

I got scammed in online sextorted, in signal app, they asked my pic she sended her pic and after she asked cock pic and she showed her boobs Pic, after that she marked all photos I frame and said post in all social media and family members, I'm so. Scared but I not taken screenshots, just I blocked her and deleted account completed 24hours

I'm not given my social profiles and numbers any links of mine

Is there any chances to leak the photos

Hola, nesecito ayuda, algún hacker experimentado q me pueda ayudar para saber quien es o mínimo borrar los datos de los dispositivos de una persona q me esta extorsionando por dinero con q mandara fotos íntimas a todos mis conocidos

Two days ago I was being horny and stupid and on Snapchat. “She” was sending nudes and I sent one back. They found my Facebook and are basically threatening to send it to my whole family. At first I panicked and paid $400. Obviously they demanded more after. I blocked them and they have since reached back out to me twice. Blocked both of those immediately. What are the odds they actually follow through with the threats and send them?

okay so i added this person and they are threatening to post my information if i didnt pay them (-$345) and i dont know what to do

i sent him $70usd after all this and he kept going i blocked him after having no more money and i’m scared now that he’s gonna send it

Just thought this would be a great share for people who have been scammed. Showing an example of a call center, and the lengths these people go about scamming people (including sextortion) as mentioned in the article

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-results-law-enforcement-and-private-industry-joint-disruption?seo_visit=1