usually, Yahoo boy Scams messages hundreds Online people presenting as members of the opposite sex using stolen photos from social media profiles. They run all types of scams, but for those who include blackmail, they often try to build a relationship with their potential hunting and get compromised information – usually, naked images. Then they shift gear.
“At some point, they reveal their identity, as they get everything they need, and then they begin to blackmail,” calls Mamon. They demand money and threaten to issue images online or send them to family and friends if they are not paid. He says, “One of the approaches that they use to ensure that blackmail is realistic, is actually producing news clips that they send to the victims and push them in a way, Nude them, to pay blackmail, “they say. “They try to push you under the terms of urgency, to decide you under the terms of stress.”
Yahoo Boy Fraudsters widely uses social media platform telegram, as a way to chat with each other, and as a market where they have knowledge about operating different types of scams and Sell tutorials. The “news” video viewed by Wired includes details and images of real -world victims, although it was not possible to verify cases immediately.
A constable Brian Mason, a constable with Edmonton Police Service in Canada, who investigates fraud and works with the victims of scams, says that he has seen cases where video or screenshots were sent to victims of fake CNN broadcasts. Are. “This looks like your specific CNN broadcast,” Mason says. “This is very, very confident.” Mason says the approach has been used Sexy scamWhich usually targets adolescents and Is associated with a series of suicides,
Mason says he has seen incidents where the news clip has accused the scam victims of talking to the young women and the police have discovered them or issued warrants for their arrest. “It nervks the victim because now they are looking at themselves at this broadcast, and this is a screen capture when they were actually talking to their own webcam with scammer,” says Mason. The effect may potentially push the person into sending money or following the demands from scammers.
Telegram did not immediately respond to Wired's request to comment on the blackmail scam contained in Yahoo Boy channels. Last year, wire More than a dozen Yahoo Boy channels removed Wired after his public activity was reported; However, scammers still have an appearance on the stage and Other social media platformsIncluding Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube.
Messages shared within the telegram channels show how fraudsters develop their opposition, use new techniques and widely to share advice with each other. For example, when people Chinese goes to alternative rednote Earlier this month, ahead of the ban tickets ban in the US, Yahoo Boys recommended to target those who joined the app.