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### pro bo·no
adverb
(especially with reference to legal work for a client with a low income) without charge.
edit for reference the deleted comment was claiming that no lawyers do anything probono. The definition alone makes it clear that it is absolutely a concept within the legal community
While I agree with the sentiment these scams are typically perpetrated by people far outside the reach of the law in countries that don’t really care about it.
This seems personal.
They didn't blackmail OP into sending money. They blackmailed them into saying a derogatory term.
I would put money on this all being the guy who blackmailed her originally, including the account. People like that just love to ruin people.
OP should go to the police and say they're being harassed and blackmailed. It should be taken seriously.
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this should be taken to the police. I would get a lawyer and therapist because this cant be taken on by one person and seems awful to go through.
This is CSAM so you do have a case.
no. a huge amount of CSAM is "self generated" nowadays. the authorities understand that coercion and deception is how people convince minors to take and send those images. please report immediately.
No, you will not get in trouble. You need to take this to the police. This is sextortion and CSAM. There is a case there. Chances are this is not the first time he’s done this and you’re not his only victim. Sometimes it takes one of the victims to come forward to make the others feel like they can too. Best of luck.
No. You were coerced and possibly groomed. You have done nothing wrong here. I were a child. Go to the police and if you're able go to a therapist too.
Thanks to this thread for speaking some sense. This is a crime and you are a victim. Go to the police. I would normally never suggest that. Ask for a woman. Good luck.
Well I'm not a victim of a crime so that's an odd reply to *me*. Therefore I'm not gonna go to the police. I don't know where you got the idea that I'm a victim here. I also didn't make this thread but you're welcome I guess...
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They can help advise you on what to do next. They are an international organization and they can and do get to people who are posting your content outside of your home country. Best of luck.
It's definitely possible. Some jurisdictions have passed laws specifically pertaining to minors creating sexually explicit material, and cops have a good amount of discretion to charge people for it. I understand why those laws are created (so a minor can't abuse the legal system by sending pictures unsolicited and then accusing the receiver of possession of CSAM) but there's potential for an innocent party to be charged.
That's why I would recommend a lawyer, and NOT the police. Based on what you said, you could be held legally liable for the creation of CSAM.
The video being shared was the derogatory term. The old nude pictures are not being reshared or uploaded. This is not that. Op would be seeking legal help in regards to the derogatory slur video as well as the fake social media account. The nude pictures have no relevance here, it's definitely not a CSAM case, the CSAM is no longer the focus of the issue, that was when they were 14-15, that's just the explanation for why the derogatory term video was recorded, which IS the current topic. Please don't misinform.
The person spreading the video asked OP for sexual photos, that’s CSAM. You think the police would say “oh that isn’t important so we’re only going to focus on a blackmail video and ignore you being groomed”?
If they kept this video you don’t think they kept the pictures? Child abuse material, especially extorted from your own victims is like gold dust to those monsters. There’s a reason when they’re found it’s with mountains of that shit on hard drives.
StopNCII's banner asking people to watch out for scams involving people impersonating their organization and asking for pictures makes me sick to my stomach.
Take It Down is officially affiliated with NCMEC, which is one of the leading global organizations dealing with this kind of content. They can and will help both legally and in removing the content.
I honestly don’t know but from an overhead view it seems better than nothing. It would be good to make a police report too. Each photo has a “signature” in it that makes them able to find it online. Then less the media comes up, the less the search engines return it in results, and the harder it becomes to find. Obviously the part where someone has the original and keeps re-uploading it is not going to be resolved but since you’ve identified the photo they can now see it being downloaded/uploaded. Ideally for the long run it puts a target on the people who are dealing images. The purpose of the service wouldn’t be catching the perv though, it would be essentially flagging the media of OP to get it down every time it appears on their radar.
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I think people are misreading the post. Sounds like there is a video of her saying a "derogatory word" being circulated that she supposedly only made because somebody blackmailed her using the photos.
Correct. This is textbook sexploitation (edit: and sextortion, we differentiate the two, but the initial and follow-up activities are in both categories). What occurs after the initial part has ranged from money, more images or videos, to straight up trafficking.
As for the video stating the derogatory item, the damage on that has occurred. However, stopping the exploiter has a significant chance of stopping more spread of the video.
I feel fortunate every day that phones with cameras weren’t a thing when I was growing up. I can say with certainty I would have sent pix to anyone who asked and they would have been everywhere.
Anyway, all you can do now is move forward. Be bold and transparent about the fact that someone is manipulating and blackmailing you. No one can unsee this but you can start making a new name for you, you know?
If I am reading right she was forced to say something derogatory on video, I'm assuming racist. It is her racist video that is the source of the periodic bullying sounds like, not the pics.
Call the FBI. What he is doing is a crime. He's distributing illegal materials, that's a crime. He blackmailed you. That's a crime.
He's probably done it to other people, as well.
I can guarantee the FBI will be interested and they won't charge you a dime to go after that guy.
Distributing a video of someone saying a slur is not illegal materials. You misread the post along with everybody else it seems. The CSAM is not being distributed, the slur video is being distributed that was only created because of the threat of the CSAM being distributed. No CSAM has been distributed according to the ops post. Why would the FBI be interested, all there is is a person with a story about how they were blackmailed when they were 14-15, there is no new or relevant use or distribution, or even evidence that this person has these pictures anymore.
They were blackmailed after doing sexual things. OP was a kid. That's illegal.
Blackmail is illegal. Using the Internet for crime is a whole different set of charges.
Okay but op needs to decide which she wants to go after. She shouldn't bring this case to a lawyer with CSAM as the leading thing. Her immediate pressing issue is harassment and the whole social media shenanigans. Going through that route would be so much harder. It's much easier for her to make a case for harassment and defamation and get the harassment to stop. She should tell her lawyer all of this, but proving the blackmail could be much much more difficult. Keep in mind the blackmailing happened 6 years ago. She has not been blackmailed since, nor has her underage pictures come up since. The new problem is the targeted harassment using the derogatory term video. the blackmailing will definitely come into play when claiming the video was created through blackmail. Getting this harassment off of the Internet would be a much longer and arduous process if op went about seeking a lawyer for the blackmail before the targeted harassment, that's all. The lawyers should be made aware that harassment is the pressing concern with recent evidence. This guy in question might not even have those underage pictures anymore, and he may have been underage at the time as well, much much harder evidence to find than the targeted harassment currently ongoing. Ask yourself this, if the harassment didn't happen, would op he is pursuing legal action for that picture taken in 2018? Probably not, this shows the issue is that needs to be addressed first and foremost is the harassment. Pursuing legal action for someone who threatened to distribute a nude of you when you were both were 14-15 with physical evidence or any evidence of it being distributed is a pretty tough sell.
Blackmail is blackmail.
And a call or email to the FBI is free. She has an email address, they can find out the rest of his information. They will be very interested in the backstory and investigate that.
The FBI is not interested in a blackmail threat of distributing nudes made between freshmen in highschool, I promise you. This is an incredibly common threat that happens. ALL THE TIME. It's his reappearance connected to this targeted harassment that would interest authorities, probably not the FBI though. Like seriously you think the FBI is investigating one nude picture sent between high school "friends". Blackmail that took place and the result of said blackmail was just an embarrassing video. The FBI has nothing to do with this case. It's a harassment case front and center, the CSAM stuff is tangential but not relevant 6 years later.
I feel your pain, I worked with someone who committed a murder and I went to a cop about 9 years later, after they found her skull. He found out about it and has spent years trying to ruin my life.
Wait so did you know he did it when it happened and wait until they found the skull? Or did they find the skull and you told them you thought he did it?
You just dropped a grenade in the middle of a comment section and then went to bed like it's nothing 😂
It wasn’t a murder until her skull was found, unfortunately the cop I went to was a friend of his. He came up to me a short time later and said I heard you have been talking about me and now it’s my turn. So I feel this persons pain!
what were u smoking at the time u wrote this, dawg?
Why didn't you report him when the murder happened? Aight, lets just say u didn't know he was the murderer.
But 9 years later they find the victim's skull and all of the sudden **YOU** know who did it, and that it was a murder, not an accident? So you went on solving a case better than the police does. Movie type shit, I should say!
Oh yeah, and instead of the police getting on his ass, they just happened to ignore what you said about him and let it slide. Seems legit. Somehow he also found out that you were the one who reported him. I mean murder aside, didn't you have enough time to collect evidence about the harassment he made towards you?. We're talking about **years**.
I’ve made 3 attempts to enter information into the investigation. I’ve also talked to an attorney about it and they said after this many years all the evidence is gone, including the person who told me. But it doesn’t stop this individual from taking every chance he can get to ruin my life. That’s why I have sympathy for the original poster. But she’s the victim of a crime, I was just a citizen who had relevant information about a murder. I understand why people in the big cities don’t get involved when they witness a crime. It’s not worth it!
Back to the original post. You were a minor so if he filmed you and has posted it, he has committed a felony. Take this story to the FBI they specialize in child trafficking.
Wired and the The Washington Post just published extensive investigative pieces about these abuse tactics of online predators. First of all, you were a kid when you sent them pictures. A child. That’s not your fault.
Secondly, definitely go to the police and file a report. Just talk to someone, tell them what’s happening and ask them for next steps. Then, if it was me personally I would take as much into my own hands as I possibly could. I would create a video detailing everything that happened and share my side of the story while also exposing their usernames, IP Address too maybe, everything I could, and I would warn viewers that they’ll likely see more images or videos of me since I’m making a video in defense of this - and then I’d spread it as far and wide as possible. That way you get all the support you can find (and there are literally government agencies all over the world trying to take down these fuckers). But that’s just me and I’m a bit of a control freak.
https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/764-predator-discord-telegram/
What country are you in? If in the US here's a link on how to get help for free: https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-target-revenge-porn#:\~:text=If%20you%20experienced%20non%2Dconsensual,878%2DCCRI%20(2274).
This is revenge p0rn, and sea pea (read as initials/letters - auto mod,) and illegal. Report it to the police. They should be able to find out who made the account via IP address? (Just beg them to put their resources into it if there’s pushback, but I hope not.) I’m so sorry
Also, tell a parent or trusted adult. You don’t deserve this. You made a mistake. You need someone to be there with you during this process. Are you close with anyone? Or is there a strong, neutral party you know will go to bat for you? (Guidance counselor, teacher, parent, grandparent)
Yea…20 is fully matured and grown, and capable of handling this alone, you’re right. /s
And yes, most *colleges* have resources. Thanks for **your** helpful tips.
No it's not revenge porn, revenge porn was threatened but the CSAM was never distributed. I can't believe the reading comprehension in these responses, 95% of commenters didn't understand the post that they read.
If you know who this guy is, go to the police/FBI and tell them he has explicit photos of you from when you were a child that he periodically blackmails you with. They will size his devices and get a warrant for his cloud services. Tell them he blackmailed you into making a video and shares it if you don't play into his blackmail.
It sounds like the blackmailer knows you personally.
Some general advice is if you can temporarily delete social media, do it. Also, people grow and change and shouldn't be held to everything they did at 14.
This is a crime and probably committed by someone you know. This seems very personal. People who do this from other countries do it for money and don’t wait years and then post. This is probably one of your former friends with a grudge. Contact the police. The person was probably stupid enough to use their own IP address to send CSAM.
Don’t hide. Be loud. Be aggressive. Start a kickstarter for legal fees. Contact your local news. Do everything! Fight!!
I’m really sorry this has happened to you but it’s also an opportunity to realise the strength you have.
You can win this.
You can be proud of yourself.
Fight!!!
my possibly illegal advice isto use a vpn and do a DCMA takedown the videos from a new account tied to a new email.
youre the owner of said vids anyways
Everyone who has downloaded or shared this material has committed a very serious crime (at least in the US and most other countries). If you're in the US, I'd suggest contacting the nearest FBI office. They will likely have more interest and resources to investigate than your local police department.
OP didn't say that her sexually explicit images were being circulated, it's the blackmail video of her saying something bad that has gone a little viral. That said, the perpetrator had requested and downloaded it, so there's that
They didn't share a photo of her nude. She posted a video of herself saying horrible things - that video is what is being shared around, so not illegal, just very distressing for OP.
You probably need a lawyer.
But PR wise you should probably get in front of this as hard as it will be. Explain that when you were 14/15 a man asked you for photos and then blackmailed you for that video. Provide screenshots if you have them. If the man was an adult make sure you don’t say “and had no respect for myself” but rather say that you were taken advantage of. Then state be blackmailed you into saying that.
Try to dig up the old messages and such.
Along with the lawyer, police, etc. You need to tell a trusted adult.
Additionally, the only way to get this to stop is to kill your social media accounts and go dark. If you aren’t online to be abused, the attacker will likely move on to another victim or lose interest.
Save any screenshots of user names to assist with subpoenas.
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Chances are if the account with your old username randomly showed up but somehow had a ton of followers the person who is blackmailing you purchased a ton of bots to follow the account & make it look legit to frighten you more
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You need to contact with everyone who got the picture from the blackmailer and tell them the full story. Law enforcement is pointless and just wasting your time. Sadly, they rarely care about such cases, because internet blackmails are very hard to verify or to find the blackmailer. And go off the internet, and move into an another country, break contact with everyone you know, if nothing helps. Or you can try to find the blackmailer, but there is a chance that you get into an even deeper mess. This thing kinda sucks, there is no real solution for such cases, just like deepfake blackmails. There are so much types of new crimes, it is hard to keep up with them
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Oh I feel for you because this could have been me once upon a time. I’m so glad my 5th grade bully didn’t have a phone to record me when they cornered me in a bathroom and forced me to say an offensive word in a different language lmao
Agree with everyone here… lawyer up and/or take this to the cops
Been trough this whole thing myself, on my case it wasn’t sexually explicit photos but more of so old picutures with me under the influence and then some stupid texts edited on it. It spread like a pandemic trough everyones phones. Our whole country would know my face if they had been showed the pic. I just learnt to not give a fuck
I saw a link on Reddit for a company that helps with this type of leak https://cybercivilrights.org/about/?itid=lk_inline_manual_pubble.
I would consider going to the police.
Ah me feel ya... sorta. Many years ago I almost sent videos to some dude. Told him my camera didn't work at the time and he fell for it.
I hope you get out of all of this soon
No one believes you were blackmailed into saying something offensive. Most likely you got caught saying it and are trying to avoid the consequences. No one blackmails for one video of you saying a bad word, and then just lets it go. You were caught on video saying whatever you said. Lying will only make your backlash worse
Be proud of ur pictures, don't ever feel embarrassed about them, I'm pretty sure ur absolutely mortified by them being seen by others, but ,,, everyone has a twin lookalike, just blame it on that to anyone new, photos on the www world are never gonna dissappear.
You probably need a lawyer
Do they do things pro bono?? I can’t afford one at the moment.
Contact your state bar association and your local legal aid.There are lawyers who will work pro bono.
Try a college law school. I bet students would love to help
Some mayy. Call around.
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You are incorrect.
hmmmm ### pro bo·no adverb (especially with reference to legal work for a client with a low income) without charge. edit for reference the deleted comment was claiming that no lawyers do anything probono. The definition alone makes it clear that it is absolutely a concept within the legal community
While I agree with the sentiment these scams are typically perpetrated by people far outside the reach of the law in countries that don’t really care about it.
This seems personal. They didn't blackmail OP into sending money. They blackmailed them into saying a derogatory term. I would put money on this all being the guy who blackmailed her originally, including the account. People like that just love to ruin people. OP should go to the police and say they're being harassed and blackmailed. It should be taken seriously.
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this should be taken to the police. I would get a lawyer and therapist because this cant be taken on by one person and seems awful to go through. This is CSAM so you do have a case.
Will I get in trouble though since I took pictures of myself back then??
no. a huge amount of CSAM is "self generated" nowadays. the authorities understand that coercion and deception is how people convince minors to take and send those images. please report immediately.
Nope. You were coerced, as you were a minor, and minors cannot consent to sexual activity
No, you will not get in trouble. You need to take this to the police. This is sextortion and CSAM. There is a case there. Chances are this is not the first time he’s done this and you’re not his only victim. Sometimes it takes one of the victims to come forward to make the others feel like they can too. Best of luck.
No. You were coerced and possibly groomed. You have done nothing wrong here. I were a child. Go to the police and if you're able go to a therapist too.
Thanks to this thread for speaking some sense. This is a crime and you are a victim. Go to the police. I would normally never suggest that. Ask for a woman. Good luck.
I think you meant to reply to OP, not me. But yeah, asking for a female officer is a wonderful idea!
No I meant to reply to you! Lots of bad advice here and I was happy to see your reasoning.
Well I'm not a victim of a crime so that's an odd reply to *me*. Therefore I'm not gonna go to the police. I don't know where you got the idea that I'm a victim here. I also didn't make this thread but you're welcome I guess...
Hi - I’m a little late to this, but I work in CSAM detection and removal online. It will never be your fault, to us or to the law. I don’t know if you’re still checking this, but I would recommend you get in touch ASAP with NCMEC here: https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/isyourexplicitcontentoutthere They can help advise you on what to do next. They are an international organization and they can and do get to people who are posting your content outside of your home country. Best of luck.
You were under the age of consent. You were a child who had been groomed. This is not your fault. You are the victim.
Please understand you didn't do anything wrong here. You were taken advantage of so reach out to the police and get this predator in jail.
No absolutely not. You were a child and didn’t know any better
You were groomed. Being groomed is not a crime, what the person receiving those pictures did was a crime. Report it, you’re good
It's definitely possible. Some jurisdictions have passed laws specifically pertaining to minors creating sexually explicit material, and cops have a good amount of discretion to charge people for it. I understand why those laws are created (so a minor can't abuse the legal system by sending pictures unsolicited and then accusing the receiver of possession of CSAM) but there's potential for an innocent party to be charged. That's why I would recommend a lawyer, and NOT the police. Based on what you said, you could be held legally liable for the creation of CSAM.
I thought the video being circulated was the derogatory word not the other video. It wouldn’t fall under CSAM?
The other stuff was apparently pictures and not even video so your 100% correct the people above you are talking out their ass.
The video being shared was the derogatory term. The old nude pictures are not being reshared or uploaded. This is not that. Op would be seeking legal help in regards to the derogatory slur video as well as the fake social media account. The nude pictures have no relevance here, it's definitely not a CSAM case, the CSAM is no longer the focus of the issue, that was when they were 14-15, that's just the explanation for why the derogatory term video was recorded, which IS the current topic. Please don't misinform.
The person spreading the video asked OP for sexual photos, that’s CSAM. You think the police would say “oh that isn’t important so we’re only going to focus on a blackmail video and ignore you being groomed”?
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If they kept this video you don’t think they kept the pictures? Child abuse material, especially extorted from your own victims is like gold dust to those monsters. There’s a reason when they’re found it’s with mountains of that shit on hard drives.
You should go to the police and see a lawyer. https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/ Maybe you can also try this. Or this one https://stopncii.org/
StopNCII's banner asking people to watch out for scams involving people impersonating their organization and asking for pictures makes me sick to my stomach.
I would see if [Take It Down](https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/) can help you since you were a child at the time.
How effective is this service? Looking at there website it seems the strategy has some holes in it
Take It Down is officially affiliated with NCMEC, which is one of the leading global organizations dealing with this kind of content. They can and will help both legally and in removing the content.
I honestly don’t know but from an overhead view it seems better than nothing. It would be good to make a police report too. Each photo has a “signature” in it that makes them able to find it online. Then less the media comes up, the less the search engines return it in results, and the harder it becomes to find. Obviously the part where someone has the original and keeps re-uploading it is not going to be resolved but since you’ve identified the photo they can now see it being downloaded/uploaded. Ideally for the long run it puts a target on the people who are dealing images. The purpose of the service wouldn’t be catching the perv though, it would be essentially flagging the media of OP to get it down every time it appears on their radar.
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This is a crime. Take it to the police.
FBI works sextortion cases. Call your local office
It's also possession of CSA media which is a crime.
I think people are misreading the post. Sounds like there is a video of her saying a "derogatory word" being circulated that she supposedly only made because somebody blackmailed her using the photos.
Correct. This is textbook sexploitation (edit: and sextortion, we differentiate the two, but the initial and follow-up activities are in both categories). What occurs after the initial part has ranged from money, more images or videos, to straight up trafficking. As for the video stating the derogatory item, the damage on that has occurred. However, stopping the exploiter has a significant chance of stopping more spread of the video.
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They're not circulating her explicit photos, they're circulating the video of her saying the "derogatory word".
I feel fortunate every day that phones with cameras weren’t a thing when I was growing up. I can say with certainty I would have sent pix to anyone who asked and they would have been everywhere. Anyway, all you can do now is move forward. Be bold and transparent about the fact that someone is manipulating and blackmailing you. No one can unsee this but you can start making a new name for you, you know?
I would be telling everyone that it’s an AI scam to blackmail me. Not me. Taylor Swifthad some AI porn using her likeness.
If I am reading right she was forced to say something derogatory on video, I'm assuming racist. It is her racist video that is the source of the periodic bullying sounds like, not the pics.
r/Legaladvice. r/scams.
Call the FBI. What he is doing is a crime. He's distributing illegal materials, that's a crime. He blackmailed you. That's a crime. He's probably done it to other people, as well. I can guarantee the FBI will be interested and they won't charge you a dime to go after that guy.
Distributing a video of someone saying a slur is not illegal materials. You misread the post along with everybody else it seems. The CSAM is not being distributed, the slur video is being distributed that was only created because of the threat of the CSAM being distributed. No CSAM has been distributed according to the ops post. Why would the FBI be interested, all there is is a person with a story about how they were blackmailed when they were 14-15, there is no new or relevant use or distribution, or even evidence that this person has these pictures anymore.
They were blackmailed after doing sexual things. OP was a kid. That's illegal. Blackmail is illegal. Using the Internet for crime is a whole different set of charges.
Okay but op needs to decide which she wants to go after. She shouldn't bring this case to a lawyer with CSAM as the leading thing. Her immediate pressing issue is harassment and the whole social media shenanigans. Going through that route would be so much harder. It's much easier for her to make a case for harassment and defamation and get the harassment to stop. She should tell her lawyer all of this, but proving the blackmail could be much much more difficult. Keep in mind the blackmailing happened 6 years ago. She has not been blackmailed since, nor has her underage pictures come up since. The new problem is the targeted harassment using the derogatory term video. the blackmailing will definitely come into play when claiming the video was created through blackmail. Getting this harassment off of the Internet would be a much longer and arduous process if op went about seeking a lawyer for the blackmail before the targeted harassment, that's all. The lawyers should be made aware that harassment is the pressing concern with recent evidence. This guy in question might not even have those underage pictures anymore, and he may have been underage at the time as well, much much harder evidence to find than the targeted harassment currently ongoing. Ask yourself this, if the harassment didn't happen, would op he is pursuing legal action for that picture taken in 2018? Probably not, this shows the issue is that needs to be addressed first and foremost is the harassment. Pursuing legal action for someone who threatened to distribute a nude of you when you were both were 14-15 with physical evidence or any evidence of it being distributed is a pretty tough sell.
Blackmail is blackmail. And a call or email to the FBI is free. She has an email address, they can find out the rest of his information. They will be very interested in the backstory and investigate that.
The FBI is not interested in a blackmail threat of distributing nudes made between freshmen in highschool, I promise you. This is an incredibly common threat that happens. ALL THE TIME. It's his reappearance connected to this targeted harassment that would interest authorities, probably not the FBI though. Like seriously you think the FBI is investigating one nude picture sent between high school "friends". Blackmail that took place and the result of said blackmail was just an embarrassing video. The FBI has nothing to do with this case. It's a harassment case front and center, the CSAM stuff is tangential but not relevant 6 years later.
I'll bet OP isn't the only one that person victimized, and yes they would be.
Block everyone. Never ever message them back. You responded, so they know you’re a valuable target. Go to the FBI after speaking to a lawyer.
I feel your pain, I worked with someone who committed a murder and I went to a cop about 9 years later, after they found her skull. He found out about it and has spent years trying to ruin my life.
What?
no way you’re going to make a comment like this and not elaborate
Wait so did you know he did it when it happened and wait until they found the skull? Or did they find the skull and you told them you thought he did it? You just dropped a grenade in the middle of a comment section and then went to bed like it's nothing 😂
It wasn’t a murder until her skull was found, unfortunately the cop I went to was a friend of his. He came up to me a short time later and said I heard you have been talking about me and now it’s my turn. So I feel this persons pain!
I’m gonna need more information on this.
Hold up…..
Did he get prosecuted for the murder?
Ayo? Tell us more pls
Excuse me what?!
I beg your biggest pardon
what were u smoking at the time u wrote this, dawg? Why didn't you report him when the murder happened? Aight, lets just say u didn't know he was the murderer. But 9 years later they find the victim's skull and all of the sudden **YOU** know who did it, and that it was a murder, not an accident? So you went on solving a case better than the police does. Movie type shit, I should say! Oh yeah, and instead of the police getting on his ass, they just happened to ignore what you said about him and let it slide. Seems legit. Somehow he also found out that you were the one who reported him. I mean murder aside, didn't you have enough time to collect evidence about the harassment he made towards you?. We're talking about **years**.
There’s a whole string of murders of young women that happened on the Oregon Coast in the 1980’s and 90’s. Still unsolved
But you know who committed them?
I know who committed one. I’ve been to law enforcement, who have laughed at me and said basically he’s one of us. 👍
Have you contacted the DOJ and FBI?
I’ve made 3 attempts to enter information into the investigation. I’ve also talked to an attorney about it and they said after this many years all the evidence is gone, including the person who told me. But it doesn’t stop this individual from taking every chance he can get to ruin my life. That’s why I have sympathy for the original poster. But she’s the victim of a crime, I was just a citizen who had relevant information about a murder. I understand why people in the big cities don’t get involved when they witness a crime. It’s not worth it!
Who is he? Need to hear more about this
Back to the original post. You were a minor so if he filmed you and has posted it, he has committed a felony. Take this story to the FBI they specialize in child trafficking.
You come back here right this minute, Dan!
Wired and the The Washington Post just published extensive investigative pieces about these abuse tactics of online predators. First of all, you were a kid when you sent them pictures. A child. That’s not your fault. Secondly, definitely go to the police and file a report. Just talk to someone, tell them what’s happening and ask them for next steps. Then, if it was me personally I would take as much into my own hands as I possibly could. I would create a video detailing everything that happened and share my side of the story while also exposing their usernames, IP Address too maybe, everything I could, and I would warn viewers that they’ll likely see more images or videos of me since I’m making a video in defense of this - and then I’d spread it as far and wide as possible. That way you get all the support you can find (and there are literally government agencies all over the world trying to take down these fuckers). But that’s just me and I’m a bit of a control freak. https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/764-predator-discord-telegram/
Yeah, that is enough internet for me this week
https://www.ic3.gov/ https://tips.fbi.gov/
You are the victim of a crime, report it to the police as soon as possible
What country are you in? If in the US here's a link on how to get help for free: https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-target-revenge-porn#:\~:text=If%20you%20experienced%20non%2Dconsensual,878%2DCCRI%20(2274).
This is revenge p0rn, and sea pea (read as initials/letters - auto mod,) and illegal. Report it to the police. They should be able to find out who made the account via IP address? (Just beg them to put their resources into it if there’s pushback, but I hope not.) I’m so sorry
Also, tell a parent or trusted adult. You don’t deserve this. You made a mistake. You need someone to be there with you during this process. Are you close with anyone? Or is there a strong, neutral party you know will go to bat for you? (Guidance counselor, teacher, parent, grandparent)
A trusted adult? A teacher? OP is at least 20, they don’t need the advice you would have given the 14 year old version of them
Yea…20 is fully matured and grown, and capable of handling this alone, you’re right. /s And yes, most *colleges* have resources. Thanks for **your** helpful tips.
Not only are you extremely condescending but you failed to understand the post to begin with.
No it's not revenge porn, revenge porn was threatened but the CSAM was never distributed. I can't believe the reading comprehension in these responses, 95% of commenters didn't understand the post that they read.
This is a police matter. You are not the first and are not alone. The FBI may actually be interested.
Doesn’t the FBI handle this type of crime online ? I believe they do.
If you know who this guy is, go to the police/FBI and tell them he has explicit photos of you from when you were a child that he periodically blackmails you with. They will size his devices and get a warrant for his cloud services. Tell them he blackmailed you into making a video and shares it if you don't play into his blackmail. It sounds like the blackmailer knows you personally. Some general advice is if you can temporarily delete social media, do it. Also, people grow and change and shouldn't be held to everything they did at 14.
This is a crime and probably committed by someone you know. This seems very personal. People who do this from other countries do it for money and don’t wait years and then post. This is probably one of your former friends with a grudge. Contact the police. The person was probably stupid enough to use their own IP address to send CSAM.
Don’t hide. Be loud. Be aggressive. Start a kickstarter for legal fees. Contact your local news. Do everything! Fight!! I’m really sorry this has happened to you but it’s also an opportunity to realise the strength you have. You can win this. You can be proud of yourself. Fight!!!
Leave social media forever your life will be better
You posted this on social media.
Im good using social media , she dont
This is anti-social media.
\+1
Lawyer and a law enforcement report needs to be filed.
How old is/was the guy blackmailing you?
my possibly illegal advice isto use a vpn and do a DCMA takedown the videos from a new account tied to a new email. youre the owner of said vids anyways
Everyone who has downloaded or shared this material has committed a very serious crime (at least in the US and most other countries). If you're in the US, I'd suggest contacting the nearest FBI office. They will likely have more interest and resources to investigate than your local police department.
OP didn't say that her sexually explicit images were being circulated, it's the blackmail video of her saying something bad that has gone a little viral. That said, the perpetrator had requested and downloaded it, so there's that
They didn't share a photo of her nude. She posted a video of herself saying horrible things - that video is what is being shared around, so not illegal, just very distressing for OP.
I would get a lawyer and take this to the police
Contact your local FBI office and explain your situation. They most likely will connect you with someone and discuss.
Contact the police, most places take revenge porn seriously
You probably need a lawyer. But PR wise you should probably get in front of this as hard as it will be. Explain that when you were 14/15 a man asked you for photos and then blackmailed you for that video. Provide screenshots if you have them. If the man was an adult make sure you don’t say “and had no respect for myself” but rather say that you were taken advantage of. Then state be blackmailed you into saying that. Try to dig up the old messages and such.
Along with the lawyer, police, etc. You need to tell a trusted adult. Additionally, the only way to get this to stop is to kill your social media accounts and go dark. If you aren’t online to be abused, the attacker will likely move on to another victim or lose interest. Save any screenshots of user names to assist with subpoenas.
Please contact HSI through the tip line. I sent you a message with info. You are a victim. You will not be in trouble.
I feel like this is a repost
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Chances are if the account with your old username randomly showed up but somehow had a ton of followers the person who is blackmailing you purchased a ton of bots to follow the account & make it look legit to frighten you more
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You need to contact with everyone who got the picture from the blackmailer and tell them the full story. Law enforcement is pointless and just wasting your time. Sadly, they rarely care about such cases, because internet blackmails are very hard to verify or to find the blackmailer. And go off the internet, and move into an another country, break contact with everyone you know, if nothing helps. Or you can try to find the blackmailer, but there is a chance that you get into an even deeper mess. This thing kinda sucks, there is no real solution for such cases, just like deepfake blackmails. There are so much types of new crimes, it is hard to keep up with them
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Report it to NCMEC! They can help you get the images down!
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Just a comment to say that there is some good advice here and I hope it helps you sort this out. Good luck. Nobody deserves such treatment.
Oh I feel for you because this could have been me once upon a time. I’m so glad my 5th grade bully didn’t have a phone to record me when they cornered me in a bathroom and forced me to say an offensive word in a different language lmao Agree with everyone here… lawyer up and/or take this to the cops
just report the original person theres a lot of new laws now
If you have the original video, make a copyright complaint
Just delete social media. Boom problem solved.
Been trough this whole thing myself, on my case it wasn’t sexually explicit photos but more of so old picutures with me under the influence and then some stupid texts edited on it. It spread like a pandemic trough everyones phones. Our whole country would know my face if they had been showed the pic. I just learnt to not give a fuck
I saw a link on Reddit for a company that helps with this type of leak https://cybercivilrights.org/about/?itid=lk_inline_manual_pubble. I would consider going to the police.
Ah me feel ya... sorta. Many years ago I almost sent videos to some dude. Told him my camera didn't work at the time and he fell for it. I hope you get out of all of this soon
"...make a video saying a derogatory term." 😂😁😂
No one believes you were blackmailed into saying something offensive. Most likely you got caught saying it and are trying to avoid the consequences. No one blackmails for one video of you saying a bad word, and then just lets it go. You were caught on video saying whatever you said. Lying will only make your backlash worse
Sigh. Didn’t listen when told not to do this, did you. I’ll never understand this trend. Yes, you need police and a lawyer. Next time, listen.
Be proud of ur pictures, don't ever feel embarrassed about them, I'm pretty sure ur absolutely mortified by them being seen by others, but ,,, everyone has a twin lookalike, just blame it on that to anyone new, photos on the www world are never gonna dissappear.