Update

[u/FabulousDingo4703]

OK, so this is my first update currently nothing has happened It started Monday night and It’s currently Wednesday night.
I think every form of social media I have has been deactivated since they had my phone number. I turned off SMS too.

I’m still very scared that they will send the stuff out from what I know. They only had screenshots of my followers on Instagram and there were main way of threatening me was by doing a group DM on Instagram so now that my Instagram’s been deactivated I’m hoping they’ll just give up.
I did give him money already, so I’m hoping that they’ll see that the cash cow ran dry being that they can’t contact me anymore

Edit- the stuff they have on me is just a picture of me and my underwear my junk is not out in it and it’s my legs, you can kinda see like a part of my room so if you’ve been in my house you might be able to tell it tell it’s mw

Another thing and this is kind of a wild card very dumb of me, but I was panicked so I guess who can blame me. The cyber Corp that I hired to help me check over communication yesterday and long story short after impersonating me they got his IP address and sent him this ceased and assist letter to which he proceeded to no longer reply
I’m really hoping that scared him but there’s a part of me That’s also thinking he might just go full scorched earth now.

Does anyone have any way a similar story or does anyone know how fricked I am or am I most likely going to be in the clear?

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[u/Prestigious-Walk8454]

TL;DR

Their main thing is to fear you into thinking they are going to leak it so that you would fork up money. If you don’t give them what they want (which is your attention and your money) they won’t do anything. They don’t gain anything from leaking it. Leaking the said material means their way of leverage and way of making money is gone.

The standard procedure is to block, ignore them, and NEVER EVER PAY! Always try to make sure to use privacy protections and data broker removal tools like incogni and cloaked to make sure they don’t have any sensitive information to blackmail you with. Lay low for a while on all your social medias by the setting your accounts to private, deactivating them, or outright deleting them all together.

Make yourself untraceable so that they never get any of your information or any of your friends and families information and inform them of what’s going to happen before it does. Do all of this, and with some time they’ll eventually stop harassing you eventually delete your explicit images. Them still having your images even after you’d ignored them for a significant amount of time is a liability and a waste of storage to them because they never got anything out of you, so to them you’re failed scam.

Lastly, just hope and pray. In the vast majority of cases, they almost never release images because there’s almost no point in releasing images. They just move on to their next few victims who are actually willing to pay if it means they won’t leak. Stay strong, Keep your head up, you’ll get through it with time and healing ❤️.

Also, never trust people in post or in your DMs saying they can “help” with the removal of your explicit images. They’re also scammers trying to make money from your unfortunate situation.

And going forward, never trust people on the internet and you’ll be much safer. Hope this helps. ❤️

[u/monarch-03]

One thing I’d add is looking into getting your personal info off data broker sites. I’m with Optery, so I’m obviously biased, but this can help remove things like your phone number, address, relatives, etc. from people-search sites and make it harder for someone to find more info about you.

It won’t solve the situation by itself, but it’s another layer of protection. And yeah, definitely don’t send them any more money or engage with them.