The hijackers demanded money from the two youths, threatening to publish their private photos. It has been reported press office Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Chelyabinsk Region.
The parents of the 17-year-old boy applied to the guard unit by making a statement about the extortion. Attackers from social networks demanded money from their daughters. Prior to that, private photos fell into the hands of blackmailers when they entered the girl’s account where she was texting with her boyfriend. Unknown people demanded the transfer of 3,500 rubles to them and threatened to publish the photo on the Internet. The girl decided to report what had happened to her parents, but managed to send a money order in the amount of 500 rubles. Law enforcement officers accepted the statement and opened a criminal case regarding the extortion phenomenon.
A similar incident happened to a 16-year-old boy in the Krasnoarmeisky district of the region. The victim, who came to the police with his father, said that the girl he had been seeing on social networks for a while started to demand 2 thousand rubles from him. Otherwise, he threatened to make public the private photos sent by his interlocutor during the correspondence.
“In the vast majority of cases, ransomware victims are social network users between the ages of 18 and 35, and in some cases minors,” the agency said in a press release.
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