False profiles with photos of attractive women are being used as bait to convince people to give compromising images, the disclosure threat serves then to extort money from victims.
The alert for this crime was given on Friday by the Judicial Police, which says it has received a “very large number” of complaints about such cases. “In recent times, growing, investigations have been developed that seem to indicate is an ongoing massive form of extortion committed by the Internet, with users of social networks,” said a statement from the police.
According with information from the PJ, people riding the scheme are “apparently headquartered abroad” and “under the hood of an attractive young woman establish virtual friendship with individuals in their social accounts such as Facebook.” The next step is to take the person to have a conversation on video. “Skillfully, having collected the elements that identify the victim in the social network and its ‘friends’, the girl alleged that can come into direct contact through a chat room with video, like Skype, leading the way to dialogue get images that cause great social embarrassment. “
Once the can of images, criminals threaten disclose it from the victim’s contact network, unless this transfer” high values ”to people outside Portugal. “The money transfer requirements are being maintained even in situations where the victims yielded to blackmail and eventually be released images on social networks, under the pretext that there visible person is a pedophile that, that way, harassed children, “describes the PJ.
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