Nude women scam photo

They were people who were using an online dating site to find romance. What they got was something else entirely. The scheme involved meeting people on the dating site. From August to January , these people were located across the country, according to the indictment which said they were in New York, Tennessee and Florida, among other places. During the investigation, law enforcement officers reported speaking to approximately 15 people who had been taken by the scam. Then the victim was asked to send back a photo of himself - naked.

Men and women are allegedly contacted via Facebook and WhatsApp, supposedly by an attractive woman or man, who offers to send naked pictures in return for explicit pictures of the target. When the target refuses to do so, images photoshopped to appear to be the victim are sent to him or her, along with threats that the images would be posted onto social media unless an immediate payment was made. He said they were working with the Hawks, who are investigating. Venter said investigations so far have revealed that it may be a syndicate at work, operating from Limpopo, and that multiple cellphone numbers were being used by the extortion gang.

Emily went on a business trip to Chicago, and her boyfriend was left at home in New York. Emily does not want him to be bored and sends him several of her photos without clothes. She sent these photos only to her boyfriend, so she was very surprised when she received such a message:.

Within a few weeks of each other, two friends of mine in the Bay Area independently received a text with the same unsolicited photo of a woman's bra-clad, but otherwise exposed, cleavage sent from an area code in central Pennsylvania last month. Both of them, curious as to the provenance of the boobs, replied and asked who was texting them. It was clear some scam was afoot. But what was it?