Usually, Yahoo Boy Scammers message is hundreds In people online while pretending to be members of the opposite sex with pictures stolen from social media profiles. They run all kinds of scams, but for those who involve blackmail, they will always try to build a relationship with their potential victims and get compromise information-usually, naked pictures. Then they move the gears.
“At some point, they revealed their identity after they got everything they needed, and then they started blackmail,” Maimon said. They demand money and threaten to release images online or send them to family and friends if they do not pay. “Usa sa mga pamaagi nga ilang gigamit aron masiguro nga realistiko ang blackmail mao ang aktwal nga paghimo sa mga clip sa balita nga ilang ipadala sa mga biktima ug sa usa ka paagi nga iduso sila, iduso sila, aron bayaran ang blackmail,” ingon niya . “They tried to push you to make decisions under the circumstances of stress, in urgency.”
Yahoo Boy Widers are widely using the social media telegram platform as a way to organize, chatting with each other, and as a market where they sell knowledge and instructions how to operate another -What varieties of scams. The “news” videos seen in wired appear to include the details and images of victims in real world, even if it is not possible to verify cases.
Brian Mason, a Canadian Edmonton Police Service Constantig in the cheating and worked with victims of scams, saying he saw cases where videos or screens of fake broadcasts to CNN sent to victims. “It looks like your average CNN broadcast,” Mason said. “This is very, very convincing.” Mason says the method is used in sextortion scamthat typically targets teens and linked to a series of suicide.
Mason said he saw incidents where news clips were falsely accused of scam victims talking to minor women and that police seeking them or issued warrants for some arrest. “It was shocking the victim because they now saw themselves in this broadcast, and it was a screen capture from when they talked to the scammer from their own webcam,” Mason added. The impact can drive the person to shipping money or following the demands from scammers.
The telegram did not immediately answer the wired request for the comment on Blackmail scams in the Yahoo Boy channels. Last year, telegram removes over a dozen yahoo boy channels After the wired reported their public activity; However, scammers still presence the platform and other social media platformsFacebook, WhatsApp, and YouTube.
Messages shared within telegram channels show how the interventions quickly change their opponents, use new technologies, and widespread share or sell counsel to one another. For example, when people moved to the Chinese alternative rednote Before the proposed prohibition of the Gustry Ban in US early this month, Yahoo Boys recommends targeting people who join the app.