I am not a recovery scammer I am here to help people because I am a victim too my post is on this page thank you. :)

I (24m) got a friend request on snap from a girl with a blond haired blue eyed Bitmoji (Aka my type) and didn't think much of it. A few days go by and we start snapping but she's only sending pics of her body; no face. She was attractive tho. Pretty quick we are sending stuff back and forth and we both agreed no screenshots. This happened a few times and then she ghosted me. I didn't really care since I thought it was just some random girl. Well after a while I get a text from my little sister (18f) saying I need to accept a friend request from this person on snap. She seemed freaked so I did it. As soon as I accept I get added to a groupchat with my sister and this snapchat stranger. And it is just FULL of both mine and my sisters nudes. The person said something along the lines of... "Here's the ground rules: No screenshots No blocks No arguments No police No help And finally, you will do what I say, when I say, and how I say. I am in control." Cheesy, I know, but we were terrified. They then sent a full list of contacts of everyone we know and told us that of we break any of the rules then they get sent to everyone and there will be no warnings. They then made us send more pictures and videos. My sister has a full plan for college and if this ever got out it would be an absolute nightmare. So we complied. And here's where it got REAL... They made my sister and I meet up, watch porn together and masturbate right next to each other. All on video. The next day it was the same except we had to masturbate each other... So on and so on each day getting worse. Eventually we had to have sex... and then the person ghosted us. But they made sure we knew that they had those videos and would probably be back in the future. This was almost half a year ago and it kinda feels like it didn't really happen. My sister and I still talk and hang out like normal. Pretty much we both silently agreed that it never happened. But yeah. Just thought I'd share that crazy ass story.

Hi, I’m being sextorted by a trans person I met online.

Loneliness/hangover got the better of me and I got into a chat with a trans woman I met online, who sent me some explicit pics and sext messages which I engaged with.

She insisted on me sending pics of my penis too, which I didn’t do, but after a bit I think I sent a pic of my face. Our texts were over a messaging app which has a profile pic and I use my real name and pic on it (I recognise this is stupid but I met them on a dating app so I didn’t exactly think it would be a scam).

By having my name and info she was able to find my work email address, which is public online, and the company I work for. She sent to my work email screenshots of our conversation, including my face, totally outing me as someone into transgender people and embarrassing myself with those texts. She is now threatening to email my office and post the screenshots online. To be honest the scam seems kind of lazy but I am still concerned. The emails were immediately flagged as junk so I’m not altogether worried, but it’s lingering in the back of my head.

I’m in a very fast-paced and “macho” conservative office (I hate that aspect of my job tbh, but it is what it is), and so if she does decide to go nuclear I could be fucked quite badly, maybe lose my job (at-will state) and otherwise lose a lot of credibility from clients and suffer major embarrassment.

So far I’ve blocked them on everything, I haven’t engaged since the extortion started, and the emails being automatically filtered to my junk means my inbox recognised them as a junk mail sender.

Do I need to do anything else? Any possibility of reassurance or is there something I need to accept? I’ve read that lgbt victims are twice as likely to face follow-through than straight victims, with about 33% of lgbt victims reporting that their scammers followed through with the threats. Is this true?

Sorry for the wall of text, I’m going through it right now and am in a bit of a whirlwind.

Thank you for reading.

Hey everyone,

I’m a 16-year-old guy from Germany and I got caught in what feels like a really professional catfishing operation on Instagram. You see, I look very mature for my age and by that I mean everyone says over 20. I started talking to a girl after I replied to one of her stories in January (about 3 months ago). She seemed super normal at first – claimed she was 22, from Romania, had a nice life, nails and beauty salon, etc. (She knew I was 16, even talked often about it saying she likes it)

She built an extremely detailed fake life story over time:

• Daily random situations (work, family drama, small problems like someone spilling something on her bed, helping her grandma etc.)

• Travel plans (she said she was flying from her country to Frankfurt and then to Bali, and on the way back she had a layover in Frankfurt and would come meet me in person for sex)

• Emotional connection – we talked every day, she listened to my problems, I listened to hers, we helped each other with stuff

• Sexual stuff got very explicit after a while – long detailed conversations, she sent me nudes and videos (said they were hers), asked me for intimate photos too, and kept promising we would meet and have sex when she comes back from Bali.

I sent her several intimate photos because I started believing it was real. She never asked for money (actually said she had plenty and didn’t need make OnlyFans because her parents would be disappointed ), which made it feel even more legit.

A few days ago I got suspicious AGAIN (I did it once before) and reverse-image-searched one of the photos and a video she sent. Turns out EVERYTHING was stolen from a real popular OnlyFans / TikTok / Instagram creator who has hundreds of thousands of followers. The fake account was just copying her entire public content to pretend to be her.

I reported the fake account 5-6 times on Instagram for impersonation (even linked the real creator’s profile), but they keep saying “we didn’t find anything” and do nothing. So I decided to get out clean:

• I blocked the fake account

• Put a warning story on close friends (“my old account had scam/hacking issues, if you see anything weird from it, ignore it – not me”)

• Created a brand new Instagram account

• Deactivated my old one completely so she cant see any followers of mine

• Made the new one private and only added real friends

Now I’m safe from contact, but the fake account is still up with all my messages and photos. I’m worried about future sextortion (even though they haven’t threatened anything yet). I also tried contacting the real OnlyFans girl to tell her her photos are being stolen, but no reply yet.

I got a hacker to track the ip address and now they don’t have any documents they can use against me. But am still worried because before I got in contact with the hacker they sent me 3 screenshots of them sending my pictures to my followers I don’t know if they actually did it or not. How can I tell if they didn’t and how do stop what they sent to my followers

HI so basically I got a message from a google rep via a chat and they were requesting some info or my account was going to be locked. So I ended up following through and I am starting to doubt some of it after my friend said it might be a scam. Any ideas? It seemed like a lot of personal info but I need my Google account for work and I know with a lot of states now they are requiring Id scans, facial scans, etc to make new accounts or view certain websites. So it didn't seem far fetched for it to be real. It was rather invasive but now I'm worried I'm getting duped. Thank you.

I followed this subreddits instructions by not paying. They wanted 1000 and said it was guaranteed to be deleted after payment. I blocked them. The next day they sent me a new message on a different number of pictures of all my stuff leaked to 30 of my friends/family! It’s real because some have already started asking. My life is ruined and awkward now. I thought they wouldn’t waste the effort of actually leaking it and getting that account blocked. Should I have paid??

I really need some advice and help for a friend who's in a terrible situation. She's a young woman from Bangladesh, and her boyfriend is from Jaipur, India. For about two years now, she's been blackmailed by a man who seems to be from India. He has inappropriate pictures of her and is using them to threaten her. This has made her so distressed that she's actually thought about suicide. She believes the blackmailer is good with computers or a "cybersecurity expert." I have his Instagram ID. The biggest problem is her family isn't supportive about this, so she feels very alone and can't go to them for help. I know this will take time and effort from anyone who helps. I'm helping her as much as I can, but I'm not in a position to pay much for professional help (I only have about ₹138 in my bank account right now). But if you help, you'd truly be saving a life. Here's the specific help we're looking for:

• Finding Information: Can anyone help trace this person's location or phone number using his Instagram ID or other digital means?

• Account Deletion: Is it possible for someone to delete his Instagram account so he can't continue this? If you think you can help with any of these points, please DM me. I can share his Instagram ID privately there. Any kind of help, advice, or suggestions would be a huge relief and truly appreciated. Thank you so much for reading.

so my fiancé got added by this girl a few days ago, and we’re new to the area and are trying to find friends so my fiancé who we will call T added this girl back named ashelyalm? idk, anyways T said she was snapping back and forth and sending videos etc, they were kicking it off, till this morning this girl said she wanted to have intercourse with my fiancé, when my fiancé declined her offer she went and said sum nasty stuff along with saying she was going to 🍇 my fiancé. she has since been blocked but i added her myself on snapchat to confront them but they haven’t responded. is this a scam? is this somebody trying to set up my fiancé? i’m posting this to get some insight or information, maybe you or somebody you know has had this happen or maybe this girl is real and is actually crazy and wants to do what she said, idk. help would be appreciated! Ty

I live in Los Angeles and call escorts every now and then. I started getting the cartel scams about a year ago (Reddit saved me) and now I just delet and not worry.
But this is different. Last week I called about 6 girls and a day later the cartel scams started. All the same but one. It sent me several photos from online, all my family members numbers, and threatened they would contact them. I did what I usually do, “block and ignore”. An hour later my wife called vacationing if Florida. She told me she “recieved a weird email asking about if I was your wife” So they made contact and had photos of text I sent the girls.

So honestly it is possible they can do real harm to my marriage. I’ll never send money, because it won’t end, but time to come up with a story for my wife when she sees the texts I sent. I had her block that number btw.

Any suggestions on a story to feed the wife?

Earlier in April this year, I received a DM on discord. This "girl" claimed she was my age, 15 at the time, and said let's get to know each other. She asked for a picture of my face, which I sent, and we talked for a good hour. Then suddenly, she asked for an explicit pic of me. I told her that I don't do that, and I never did. She kept bothering me to, but I kept saying no and telling her I would block her. After that, her tone changed and she pulled out a poster of me and this AI picture, it literally had the AI watermark on it, and at the top it said, *my name* saed me. Now at first, I got scared, so I called the police. When the officer saw the picture, he just started laughing saying, "I've never seen anyone use AI pictures to sextort someone" and he told me to not worry about it. The rest of the week, I got threats of the person sending it to people if I didn't pay $200. I just ignored them and they stopped. However, just yesterday, I got a text from them again saying give me money which was shocking because I'm an old victim to them. It lowk pissed me off so I have a friend who's really good at hacking and stuff, and we tracked him down and sent them their address and I haven't heard from them since. Also, piece of advice for anyone reading this, if you're getting sextorted, make sure you report it to the blackmailer's country's authorities. If you can't find it out, there are plenty of paid services much cheaper than the blackmailer's demands. ALso, if you've been sextorted like this, please tell me your story. This actually shocked me so much.

I don’t even have a webcam on my desktop computer, unless they have access to my iPhone camera.

I paid 300 dollars to the scammer and then blocked them when they asked for more money. Now I know that it's very unlikely for them to leak the photos. Is it possible to get the money back in any way? It's my parents' money so I'm really scared. I honestly should've checked reddit before sending the money.

I also the person who posted about being sextortion and was alone and should I be concerned about everyone on my contact list or is he lying?

Will I get into trouble?

How can I get me jerking off the internet or anything?????

What can I do?

I can’t block on Gmail…. as it won’t let me.

Do i respond or no?

Please help me. Another thing is will he send it to everyone or is he actually lying????

20 days ago I got sextortotes blocked and reported the account through Instagram and moved on, now the scammer just messaged me through WhatsApp I blocked and reported him but now what? Is it normal for them to come back

Hi I already payed 552€. How should I move on, the contacting me 24 hours later with a new number, i didn’t answered and blocked. Does anyone have experience?

So i was on a chartroulette for adults and idk why i showed my face and the top of my chest,no private part or anything and the girl was showing close up private and really few of her face but the call was really short , she said add me on ig and i did (i fucked up i know) i asked her her age and she said underage so i blocked her immediately but now the scammer is asking me for money but i didn’t show anything,i didn’t see she was and when knew her age i blocked her. I know i fucked up and i should have been more precautious but i didn’t now he is menacing me of sending the video of me not showing anything to people accusing of pedo and posting the information he have on internet. What should i do??

Edit: What should i do ? Delete my account directly ? If he send the video to my followers then i can’t explain what is happening ?

Hello people, it's my first time posting on reddit and English is not my first language, so I'll apologise in advance for my poor grammar.

I'm 19(m) and I'm being blackmailed with my naked pictures(basically nudes). And I don't know what to do.

Yesterday I was added by a girl (or that's what I thought) on instagram so I added her back. We texted together for a bit till she asked for my snapchat. I'm average looking guy, so I don't have any experience with women or this stuff in general, so I didn't thought much about and gave her my snapchat. After a while of texting with each other she proposed to play a game. Basically we send each other Nudes without saving nor screenshoting the photos, as dump as I am I agreed. After a few photos, the shit show began. It came out that she had two phones and Made photos and videos of me. She started to say if I don't pay her she will send all these photos(nudes) to my followers on Instagram(my family, my friends, etc.) and ruin my life. So what could I do, if not paying her. I gave her 170€ but she demands 300€ from me which I don't have. I need to wait for my next paycheck to get the money. For some of you 300€ may sound not so much but I am a student who's making his experience as an fitness coach, so for me 300 is quite a sum of money. Even if I pay her 300 I am not sure if she will truly delete all these photos or will she ask for more money. And I can't block her on any social media or she will send all the photos to all the people . I'm pretty sure that all his accounts on social media are fake or just one of many, so I don't think that reporting him on Insta or Snap will help with anything. That Bastard screenshoted all my followers on my Instagram so even if he is banned on IG he can create an another acc and still send the pictures to my followers

After watching some videos that she sent me I noticed that she is in reality an Guy. And that he uses an Nigerian telephone Tarif called MTN Nigeria LTE, does someone know this Tariff is it pure Nigerian Tarif or not? And because he demanded my WhatsApp I gave it to him. And his number was an Company Number wich began with an +1 (805), can someone tell me if it's American number or Nigerian.

Also I live in Germany and I don't know if the Police or other authorities can help me I that bastard Lives in America or Nigeria or any other country out of Europe.

I don't know what to do, can someone help me or was someone in similar situation. If yes how did you stop it?

Edit: he has my number, so what can I do in that situation? As people adviced, I blocked that person, he tried to Contact me once with a different number but I immediately blocked him again. Let see if he tries to contact me again or if he gives up.

okay i was stupid i sent a picture to a girl on insta she now says she wants money and is threatening to send it said i would sned after work she has pictures of my my dick but it dosnet have my face , but she has my follower, what should i do pls help

I am concerned about even posting this in case it somehow comes back to me, or leads to even more trouble, but I feel I desperately need advice. I had a facetime call with someone to whom I had spoken, which I knew was a stupid thing to do, and subsequently got threats about sharing this, to pay thousands, which I blocked. They did then send videos to some contacts, but I don't know if that is the end of it. They messaged people whom I am no longer friends with on Facebook or Instagram, but whom I had messaged and been close with before. I dont know if that means theyve had access to my messenger, if its not safe to use myself, if I should deactivate my social media, or if I can expect more people to be spammed?? Feel like my whole world is falling apart, and do not know what to do. Please advise

Hey guys so it has now been about 72 hours since it happened but I didn’t deactivate my socials or anything, since I feel like it would make me look scared and they might contact me again. None of my followers received anything and also I didn’t get contacted at all. Do y’all think it would be better to deactivate them for a while or am I pretty much clear?