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‘I was humiliated’ — online dating scammers hold nude photos for ransom in ‘sextortion’
‘I was amazed she was interested in me.’
www.marketwatch.com
When Billy, a 25-year-old tech worker in the New York City area, first saw the beautiful blonde with blue eyes on online dating app OkCupid, he was enamored. When he got a notification she had “liked” him on the app, he messaged her immediately.
She quickly responded, “hey”
“I was amazed she was interested in me,” he said. “She looked like a model, to be honest, and when we started talking she was so friendly. It felt too good to be true.”
The user, whose profile name was KellyCute 320, started sending Billy suggestive messages within minutes. She convinced him to log onto Skype for a conversation that quickly became sexual.
But the experience quickly took a turn: Afterwards, the woman told him she had saved pictures of their brief cyber-sex session
The woman demanded that Billy — who asked MarketWatch not publish his last name — pay her $800 immediately to keep the photos under wraps.
“All of a sudden she showed me all of these screenshots, and then showed me she had pulled up the Facebook pages of my aunt, my sister, the company I work for, all these people,” he said. “I started to panic.”
