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sextortion?!

  • 11-12-2017 7:59pm
    #1
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭


    Well peeps just got a couple of calls today and whatsapp messages from an individual threatening to send clearly photoshoped images of whatsapp conversations looking for services from ladies of the night, they sent me a screenshot of my OH facebook page in an attempt to scare me

    They want 300 euro lol


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  • #2
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,223 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Cool.


  • #3
    judeboy101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    fergus1001 wrote: »
    Well peeps just got a couple of calls today and whatsapp messages from an individual threatening to send clearly photoshoped images of whatsapp conversations looking for services from ladies of the night, they sent me a screenshot of my OH facebook page in an attempt to scare me

    They want 300 lol

    Tell your mother in law if she doesn't stop it you'll put her in a home.


  • #4
    TheFarrier
    Registered Users Posts: 606 ✭✭✭TheFarrier


    Went through a bit of that myself about 18 months ago.
    Except they wanted 5 grand to stop them from circulating photoshopped pics of me to everyone in my Facebook friend list with the same last name as me.
    Freaked the **** out me for about an hour but I ignored it and it went away


  • #5
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Would they not be better looking for money?


  • #6
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    If I was them, I'd ask for about three fiddy.


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  • #7
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    endacl wrote:
    Cool.


    Very interesting have you considered publishing a book on the matter ?


  • #8
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    TheFarrier wrote:
    Went through a bit of that myself about 18 months ago. Except they wanted 5 grand to stop them from circulating photoshopped pics of me to everyone in my Facebook friend list with the same last name as me. Freaked the **** out me for about an hour but I ignored it and it went away


    5 grand ! Sure you'd keep yourself going on hookers for the year untill the OH calms down anyway


  • #9
    Pithythefool
    Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭Pithythefool


    If any of this is true, just ask yourself this.

    "What are the positives I get from social media?"

    "What are the potential negatives of social media?"

    Compare the two and then ask yourself is it worth it. So you got to "like" some practical strangers picture of a horse......versus having your life ruined.

    It a real toughie.


  • #10
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    Pithythefool wrote:
    If any of this is true, just ask yourself this.


    Oh this is definitely true I spent the day sweating bullets while attempting to work


  • #11
    Falthyron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    Tell them thanks, but that you already have a publisher working on developing your career.


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  • #12
    Snotty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    Tell them that you are wanting to break up with your OH and this would save you having the awkward conversation. You should email them every 5 minutes asking have they sent it yet, telling them to hurry up and in the 5th or 6th email, tell them you are not impresses with the service they offer and you will not be recommending them to your friends.


  • #13
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    me_irl wrote: »
    If I was them, I'd ask for about three fiddy.

    foe fiddy yo


  • #14
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Give them the old Eye of Sauron

    1. Drop your drawers

    2. Put up two fingers in a rude hand gesture and position them each side of your anus

    3. Squat down and take a pic

    4. Send


  • #15
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Just have a **** in future


  • #16
    Zulu
    Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Give them the old Eye of Sauron....
    Thank you; I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I'm literally wiping tears from my eyes.

    Thanks. :)


  • #17
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,073 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Did they ask for it in bitcoin, if so you're dealing with some mean mutha truckers


  • #18
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    RobbingBandit wrote:
    Did they ask for it in bitcoin, if so you're dealing with some mean mutha truckers


    Yes they asked for 1 bit coin or €15454 euro, like where am I going to find €13645, id rather spend the €14354 on myself thank you very much


  • #19
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    suicide_circus wrote:
    Give them the old Eye of Sauron


    Just done it hopefully they have gone running for the hills now


  • #20
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    fergus1001 wrote: »
    Yes they asked for 1 bit coin or €15454 euro, like where am I going to find €13645, id rather spend the €14354 on myself thank you very much

    Bit coin is fluctuating a lot there.


  • #21
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    fergus1001 wrote: »
    Yes they asked for 1 bit coin or €15454 euro, like where am I going to find €13645, id rather spend the €14354 on myself thank you very much

    Send them one of these.

    :D

    Chocolate-coin-bitten.jpg


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  • #22
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    I think they have stopped now, lesson learned about leaving your facebook completely public


  • #23
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Why don't you just screenshot their threats and post it up on Facebook?

    Then that way, you'd get a free pass even if you are into that kind of thing.


  • #24
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Why don't you just screenshot their threats and post it up on Facebook?

    Then that way, you'd get a free pass even if you are into that kind of thing.

    Or tell them you've got photo's of them in compromising positions.


  • #25
    TheFarrier
    Registered Users Posts: 606 ✭✭✭TheFarrier


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Why don't you just screenshot their threats and post it up on Facebook?

    Then that way, you'd get a free pass even if you are into that kind of thing.

    The one that tried cornering me was one of those fake profiles with one photo and no friends. Not much point trying to blackmail someone that doesn't exist


  • #26
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,838 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Start sending them pics like this and demand a grand off them so you will leave them alone

    Particular-set-of-skills-1.jpg?fit=400%2C400

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Still it is a better attempt at extortion than the "I am an assassin with a contract on you - but having observed you I like you so if you just cover the cost of the contract I will cancel the hit on you. But if you tell anyone about this email - I will have to take them out too" email that was going around a few years back.


  • #28
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭conorhal


    I called their bluff. Send those fakes I told them!....

    ...demanded even, fake they may have been, but they guy in those nudes had an 18" dick!


  • #29
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    I can't help but think of that poor lad a while ago who fell for the webcam scam and as a teenager had no means to pay the blackmail, and he ended up killing himself. Desperately sad story


  • #30
    Lux23
    Registered Users Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Someone tried to blackmail me once using a throwaway joke text I sent them, they threatened me with going to the Gardai if I didn't sleep with them. I was 23, completely freaked and was sure I would have to comply until I confided in a slightly less naive friend who marched me into Pearse Street station. Now they didn't do anything, but they assured that under no circumstances would any Guard take a complaint like that seriously. So that was that. So, I would keep the texts but ignore or block them.


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  • #31
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    If that were me, they'd be getting the exact photos they were threatening sent back at them.
    Bluff. Called.

    I'm not a huge fan of pants at the best of times.


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