New case revenge porn comes to light publicity, the victims of which were three women in Larisa and one in Thessaloniki.

The victims reported to police that they were being blackmailed by a stranger who hacked into their Instagram and Facebook accounts and accessed their private chats, photos and videos.

Finally, a 38-year-old man was prosecuted on charges of revenge pornography, while an unknown number of his accomplices are wanted.

How they cheated and blackmailed women

As it turned out as a result of the investigation, the attackers initially contacted the victims – users of online social networking platforms through a private message, using a previously hacked profile of a person they knew.

They then gained access to their personal social media accounts:

• using the victim’s phone number and persuading them to give them the code they received or
• sending a deceptive message that they are pictured on a “pink” website, urging them to follow an attached link and enter their personal passwords.

In this way, they gained direct access to private conversations and sensitive personal data, such as photos and videos, and then contacted the “compromised” profile of the victims, demanding a sum of money in order not to publish this material.

They then instruct the victims to deposit the required amount of money into the digital wallet, usually through a cryptocurrency ATM. If the money didn’t come in, the criminals acted in a vindictive way and shared sensitive personal data with more people.

During the period from 12/16/2022 to 1/16/2023, four cases of online social media profile violation, extortion and revenge pornography committed by the above method of action were registered.

As a result of a thorough preliminary investigation and a digital investigation by the police, it was found that a 38-year-old man was involved in the cases, while the investigation was carried out at his house in the Attica region, as well as in IXE his car, were located and seized:

• laptop,
• mobile phone &
• 23 ATM transaction receipts corresponding to transactions for the sale of cryptocurrencies and withdrawals of the corresponding amounts in euros.

The initiated case was transferred to the criminal prosecutor of Larisa.

In this particular case, the Thessaly Regional Police Headquarters reminds citizens not to register the username and password of their personal social media accounts on websites or forms that open via hyperlinks, and not to share their personal passwords with other people (PIN -code). ) or social media platform warning codes.

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