Typically, Yahoo’s boyfriends are sending online as members of the opposite sex using images stolen from social media profiles online. They execute a variety of frauds, but for cases that include ransom, they often try to communicate with their potential victim and obtain compromise information – most of the naked images. Then they change the gears.
“In some cases, they show their identity after getting everything they need and then start ransom,” the monkey says. They want money and threaten to release images online or send them to their family and friends if they do not pay. “One of the approaches that they are realistic to ensure that they are realistic, in fact, produce the news clips they send to the victims and put them under pressure. Fooled, to pay the ransom. ” “They try to take you under stress, under urgency, to take you to you.”
Yahoo boyfronts widely use the telegram platform as a way to organize, chat with each other and as a market where they sell knowledge and training on how different types of fraud. It seems that the “news” films seen by Wired include details and images of real -world victims, although the files were not possible immediately.
“He has seen cases where films or images of fake CNN broadcasts have been sent to victims,” said Brian Mason, a police station in Canada, who is investigating fraud and working with victims of fraud. “Looks to be your typical CNN player,” Mason says. “This is very, very convincing.” Mason says the approach was used in sextMination scams, which are usually targeted by teens and linked to a series of suicides.
Mason says he has seen events that fake news clips accuse the victims of fraudulent women and the police are looking for them or issued a guarantee to arrest them. “This causes the victim’s horror because they now see themselves on the broadcast, and this is a page recorder since they were actually talking to their webcam fraud,” Mason adds. This effect can potentially lead a person to send money or under the demands of fraudsters.
The telegram immediately did not respond to the Wired request to comment on ransom fraud on Yahoo’s boy channels. Last year, Telegram eliminated more than dozens of Yahoo’s son’s channels after a Wired report on its public activities. However, fraudsters are still present on the platform and other social media operating systems, including Facebook, Watts App and YouTube.
The messages shared on the telegram channels show how fast fraudsters can evolve their negative, use new technologies, and share or sell advice widely. For example, when people moved a Chinese replacement for RedNote earlier this month, Yahoo boys advised the people who had joined the program.
