Posted on 01/23/2024 11:16:54 AM PST by DallasBiff
DENVER (KDVR) — Police are warning of a so-called “sextortion” scheme against Aurora students, dozens of whom have been targeted with blackmail on social media.
Students have reported that the scammers contact them through Instagram, the Aurora Police Department said on Monday.“A scammer could threaten to post explicit material on the internet or social media unless they receive money from their targeted victim. Sextortion could also involve sharing sexually explicit images with others in exchange for money,” the release said.
In six cases out of Aurora, the students said they were direct targets of the sextortion scheme after someone reached out on Instagram. Police said in dozens of other cases, the students got an unsolicited invitation to pay to join a private Instagram “Close Friends” list with sexually explicit material. Close friends lists are made by users who then choose other users to see that private content.
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Isn't Instagram owned by Zuckerburg.
I believe so, yes, along with fakebook.
Yes it is. That’s why nothing is done about the problem.
Well there is an obvious solution.
Can’t be something as simple as don’t do anything you wouldn’t want shown on the internet, particularly if a camera is present, could it?
And there it is.
Unfortunately, AI makes it easy to produce realistic images of you in compromising positions. Not long ago, only the big spook agencies could do that. Now anybody can.
This is how DC operates, so I guess they’re branching out.
The possibility that AI can make a fake image or video is not a reason to pay a scammer.
The vast majority of cases require no AI generated images. That is a new/recent thing. Its not necessary when you have taken hundreds of semi or nudes of yourself on your phone and also stored them “in the cloud”.
The scammers are getting more creative.
For roughly one year, I have been getting junk email from alleged hackers who claim they have hijacked my computer and its camera.
For just a few hundred dollars in Bitcoin, they promise to return control of my computer, and they vow never to reveal any of the kinky things I do in my apartment or watch on the Web.
Since almost all teenagers have a guilty conscience about something, I will guess the alleged hackers have a much higher success ratio with the youngsters than they have with old men like me.
“...hackers who claim they have hijacked my computer and its camera.”
I got TONS of those several years ago and they stopped. I figured that scam had died out and there weren’t enough suckers left.
Recently I was getting tons of “Your Microsoft Community subscription will end” scam mails. The first one always makes you wonder “what do I do now?” but when #2 to #10 arrive, you know it’s a scam. The scammers are too stupid to make sure all their worldwide spambot networks are coordinated and don’t deliver the same message to the same user more than once.
With AI sextortion can be used against anyone, even virgins. All you have to have done is put a pic of yourself on internet. With AI that face can be seamlessly put on a body in a sex scene.
A really good idea is to not take naked photos of yourself...
Anybody stupid enough to let anyone have sexually explicit material deserves to be in the sextortion arena.
Stupidity has no limits.
My “subscriptions” expiring are those I’ve never even heard of.
Over time, AI will be the scammers’ undoing and put them out of business. Victims, whether it’s really them or not, need only claim to the world “It’s fake! It’s AI!”. Just this morning, I saw a photo realistic AI image of Trump and Biden smiling and chatting on a park bench. AI video with audio is really gonna do major damage to society, eventually.
99.999% of these scams can be avoided with basic common sense. Don’t sign up for a sex site. Never send naked or revealing pictures of yourself. Even a teenager should understand that. And most tech-savvy teens should understand that these scams exist.
That’s sadly true.
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