Scammers Are Creating Fake News Videos to Blackmail Victims

Generally, Yahoo boy Scammers Message Hundred People are online when pose as a member of the opposite sex using the stolen pictures from social media profiles. They run all kinds of scandal, but for those involved in blackmail they often try to build relationships with their potential victims and try to acquire compromise information – usually, nude figure. Then they shift the gear.

“At one point, they reveal their identity after getting everything they need, and then they start blackmailing,” said Maimon. They demand money and threatening to release the image online or send them to their family and friends if they are not paid. “Blackmail is realistic that they send to the victims and push them somehow, push them, they are one of the methods they use to make sure they use to pay the blackmail.” They are under the condition of the emergency. By trying to stress you to decide. “

Yahoo Boy Jews are widely used to organize social media platform telegram, as a way to chat with each other and as a market where they sell knowledge and tutorials on how to handle different types of scandals. The “News” videos seen by the wired seem to include the details and images of the real-world victims, though the cases were not immediately verified.

Brian Mason, Constable of the Edmonton Police Service in Canada, who investigated the fraud and works with the victims of the scandal, says he has seen a case where fake CNN broadcast video or screenshot has been sent to the victims. “It looks like your ordinary CNN broadcast,” said Mason. “This is very, very visible.” Mason says that the procedure has been used sextortumation scandalWhich typically target teenagers and Has been associated with a series of suicideThe

Mason says he has seen the incident where news clips have made false accusations of speaking to the victims of the victims and the police have been looking for them or issued a warrant for their arrest. “It makes the victim panic because now they are watching themselves in this broadcast and when they were actually talking to Scammer from their own webcam it was a screen capture,” added Mason. The impact may probably press the person to send money or to follow the claim from scammers.

The Telegram did not immediately respond to the wired request for commenting on the Blackmail scandal on the Yahoo Boy Channel. Last year, telegram More than a dozen Yahoo Boy Channel has been removed Wired after reporting about their public activity; However, scammers are still present on the platform and Other social media platformIncluding Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube.

The messages shared between the telegrams channels show that frauds are how to develop their cons, using new technology, and share or sell consultation with each other greatly. For example, when people Chinese alternative has been removed on Rednote Earlier this month, the Yahoo boys suggested targeting people who joined the app before the United States was banned in the United States.