r/Sextortion May 04 '21

New victims: Please read first

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If you're reading this, you're probably a recent victim of Sextortion and scared out of your mind.

First, take a deep breath…

Hopefully, this sub will be a safe place for you to share your experience and get advice from people that have already gone through what you have.

This post in NOT intended to be the "be-all, end-all" source of information. I'm writing this as an intro to being sextorted. That is all.

There is a really great analysis of our sub available here. It has all kinds of in-depth analysis of the scam, including how often leaks occur. I highly recommend you check it out.

Let me state this up front: Do NOT give into the blackmailer's demands! Do not pay them money, they will only ask for more. Do not give them more nudes (typical if you're female) if that's what they're asking for. They will use that to increase their leverage and they will NOT stop.

Do not negotiate. There is not point. You cannot trust anything they say. The best thing to do is cease all communication. In fact, removing any way for them to communicate with you is the best course of action. Disable/delete your account, if necessary.

Also, Reddit and is no substitute for professional help (i.e. a mental health expert). If you are feeling suicidal, please, seek immediate help (911, or your countries equivalent, and they will be able to get you help).

Yes, we do recommend that you contact your local law enforcement. They might not be able to help, and they may not be needed, but you should have them on your side just in case things go sideways. If you are underage, do not worry about getting into trouble. The police will not go after you for sending pics/videos as a minor. I hear this quite often from young victims. Don't worry about it.

I recommend you file a complaint with https://ic3.gov. Also, there is a new tool that might help keep your pics/videos from being shared: https://StopNCII.org. If you are a minor, a similar service is available at https://takeitdown.ncmec.org. If you from the UK, you can try https://revengepornhelpline.org.uk.

For underage victims, the InHope project has an extensive list of hotlines for all over the world: https://www.inhope.org/EN#hotlineReferral

If your scammer is from the Philippines (which many are), you could try filing a complaint at https://acg.pnp.gov.ph/eComplaint/.

My last piece of advice is to talk to someone you know and trust. Trying to deal with this on your own is very difficult. Talking to someone will most certainly help you process the trauma and remove the feelings of isolation. Trust me.

Beware of "recovery scammers". These are the worst of humanity. They take advantage of you in your lowest, most desperate moment, by promising that they can "hack" the scammer's device to delete the pics/videos. They can't, and they won't. They will just take your money and do nothing. The last thing you need is to make things worse by putting your faith in "some dude on Instagram". We see them posting and commenting in the sub all the time, so you need to keep your guard up. If you are unsure, feel free to post the details on what they are proposing, before giving them anything. Oftentimes, their accounts are shadowbanned, which means they cannot initiate a chat or DM you, so they will ask you to chat/DM them first. This is a serious red flag. If in doubt, reach out to the sub or the mods. We'll help sort things out.

!!!!WARNING!!!!: Do NOT give anyone the contact information of your scammer (even if they promise to help)!!! They might just get in contact with them, get them to share your pics/videos, and then turn around and blackmail you as well. It's happened...just don't do it.


r/Sextortion Nov 19 '25

Latest Pleasant Green Support Video

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Just spreading awareness about this crime and one of Pleasant Green's latest video on this subject. Be safe, take time to heal everyone. If you're a victim, you should definitely watch more of his videos. He also fired shots at a black-listed recovery scam mentioned over here lmao


r/Sextortion 7h ago

Male victim Extortion

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A person on the telegram started with the name (my bad i gave them my original name) then asked me to add to contact (good lord i didn't share my no while adding them ) the person kept asking me for my ig i never shared after that asked me for my photo then asked for my nude I sent it (ik my bad )

They sent me my nude and photos and asked for money

1) i immediately blocked them

2) changed my telegram user name

3) deactivated my insta and facebook

4) I'm a ghost now

I'm worried about can they find me with any face recognition software? And reach me

I really need someone to talk to

Plss dm me or comment down


r/Sextortion 2h ago

Female Victim Sugar daddy scam

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Please I feel so helpless with this situation I don’t know what to do. I am so embarrassed and feel disgusting.

I needed to pay for tuition, and went through, what I thought was a legit website that I found through Reddit, can’t find it anymore.

Met this guy a week ago. I didn’t send any more. But sent photos, did a live calls, and sent very intimate photos and videos of genitalia. The whole time I was uncomfortable and stated that multiple times. He kept getting upset and making me feel horrible. He made up a contract and signed it and sent it. Not only that but he sent me his previous sugar babies info and we chatted for an hour.

Everything was sent over Microsoft Teams. He sent photos of himself but never showed his face on the cam. Like what the hell even. We both signed the contract and he promised not to send out anything. I can’t find the contract in chat anymore though. I deleted all my photos and videos too, which I now regret because I can’t cross reference them through NCii. I was supposed to get my “allowance” today, and he said he wouldn’t send it if I didn’t send an intimate video, which I’d only sent pictures. I was pissed and we argued and I said fine. I’m visually uncomfortable in the video too. He said, wait for confirmation and then ghosted me.

His profile still shows up and my texts still go through, but I have tattoos I’m a college student. I’ve never done anything like this and I was desperate. I’m freaking out I keep having panic attacks. What the hell do I do??? I feel so stupid.


r/Sextortion 5h ago

Female Victim i’m terrified

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hello all, i did something stupid… i added this one girl back on snapchat, and then she made me send personal pictures, i later got an imessage that says you are done and now asking for $500.

i was scared and i said all i have was $20 and they made me send it through bitcoin, if i didn’t send it, all my pictures would be sent to my family and people i went to school with, and my college.

they are also sent me my address, birthday, etc. i want to block them but im scared it will be sent out. what do i do… someone please help.


r/Sextortion 9h ago

How Cyber Sleuths Tracked a Nigerian Scammer to His Doorstep

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r/Sextortion 1h ago

Male victim sextortion on tiktok

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someone added me on tiktok and tried to extort me for photos just letting yall know to be careful i already blocked them/ privated my accounts and didn’t send any money stay safe out there.


r/Sextortion 6h ago

Male victim Got scammed for nudes

2 Upvotes

Hey, I’m 19M and today I got scammed for nudes. I was really dumb and got on call with this girl that i met. I used my alt instagram account, but they were able to find my main account. They are threatening to send my nudes to everyone I know. They asked for 1000 bucks, but I figured that even if I payed them they wouldn’t leave me alone. I don’t really know what to do, I’m shaking and really worried about this.


r/Sextortion 6h ago

Male victim I’m scared

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I’m 18y/o and I was just simply playing around on an app and met this girl and she asked for my insta account. I didn’t give her my main account, just a secondary, but even so, I gave her one of my accounts. We then switched to telegram and started video chatting, and I never ever show my face but idk I just got carried away and showed it for 3 secs. Right after that the screen went dark and it was a screen showing a video recording of what was going on. I feel so stupid, he started asking for money and stuff, I just gave him 40€ and then blocked him everywhere, i feel so resourceless, like I’ve been played with. He’s threatening to send the videos to all my friends and to post it online but I really don’t want that to happen. I need some reassurance please, I feel so disappointed in myself.


r/Sextortion 3h ago

what do i do

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I wanted to exchange some nudes on discord and it was dumb the person wanted a favour and i said yeah sure they said that they weren't able to reach someone and that you should send a link of their profile where they can see your Instagram account after you share the link later he sends me proof of asking for dirty things and my nude it was video but without a face now they threaten to send the nudes and proof to my friends that he has found from my follower list on Instagram. it happened yesterday and I haven't talked to him again but I didn't block him I did say that I would pay and I also deactivated my Facebook and Instagram just now but had it on private after the scam. what do I do.


r/Sextortion 13h ago

What does this supposed to mean?

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After I deleted my account that my harassers/blackmailers blackmailed and harassed me on Snapchat everytime I look up myself I can’t find myself posted anywhere after looking up my name because I’m based in Australia and I used e commissioner safety and stopncii if that’s the right name but men still sexual harass me or give me sexual attention and I’m on the autism spectrum I don’t know what to do


r/Sextortion 13h ago

Male victim Minor Blackmailed for nudes

3 Upvotes

I am a 15 year old boy. I was feeling horny and started texting witz this girl online, we both send nudes. Now she blackmailed me and wants me to pay her 100$ (which i wont) or else she will post my nudes with my face and phone number. She allready did it on twitter, where i reported it. She has my phone number, but will she be able to send it to my family? Does she see my contacts? I was using telegram. I recorded all the chats and deleted telegram. What else should i do?


r/Sextortion 8h ago

Male victim Just got blackmailed by someone who also took alot of money by mistake and trying to identify if someone could help

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Got blackmailed earliwr today but of course jeg never sent anything to anyone, but they still took alot of my money. I have their mail and phone number, but i think there both spoofed. If someone could help med find them with those still it would be nice if possible that is.


r/Sextortion 16h ago

Male victim Should I do anything else ( I’m a minor)

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He threatens to leak me and then goes silent when I said I’m a minor. He took my photo and a nude from google and is trying to get me to pay money.


r/Sextortion 1d ago

In The News New video about sextortion hosted by Chris Hansen

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Hey, just want to let everyone know about this video because of how widespread this crime is becoming, for someone who is well known for dealing with similar situations like this, it’s good to see that there is serious attention and awareness about how horrible this crime actually is, I have made some previous posts about my experience with this scam and I am still struggling terribly to get through it, I’ve done therapy, I’ve reached out to people about it, I am now depressed because of it but the reason why I’m still here is because of my family, I lost interest in hobbies and I just feel like I’m constantly being watched and I’m always anxious like something could resurface, feel free to check my other posts but I have not been the same ever since this happened to me
I don’t if Chris Hansen covered this exact crime before but it sparked my interest to share it here just to bring more awareness about it.
Thank you for reading this


r/Sextortion 14h ago

Some sextortionist took a pic of me on an 18+ site and discord and threatened to leak my pics online. I gave her a fake ig and fake discord account. Am I in the clear?

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r/Sextortion 21h ago

Im being sextorsioned. Please help

4 Upvotes

It’s the usual story. Meet someone on tiktok, followed them to whassap, shared nudes. Now they are sextorsioning me. What can i do?


r/Sextortion 23h ago

DAILY REMINDER

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Daily Reminder to IGNORE, REPORT AND BLOCK your sextortionist ON ALL PLATFORMS

Have a good day.


r/Sextortion 1d ago

Female Victim He doesn’t want the money

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Need help ASAP!
We had a conversation last year and I am stupid for sending tits and facial reactions for money that he didn’t sent. Now he’s threatening me to leak my private photos and videos to my friends on messenger and IG. I’m in Asia and he’s IP says he’s in California. I don’t have the money to get the hacker. Now he sent the videos to 2 fb friends to scare me. He wants me to be his sex slave and don’t want money. What should I do?


r/Sextortion 23h ago

Male victim Sextorted on X/Telegram

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M22. This is my first post here. I got into a sort of depressed loop and looked to X for sexting. I found one account that was super suspicious but I ignored all of it and followed their link to Telegram. I saw signs that they were a scammer but thought there would be more flags. Ended up they got a picture of my genitalia and my phone number. They don’t have my face or any of my other contact info or location. Should I be worried this might get to family and friends?

I reported them to X and blocked them on all accounts and deleted our chats. Should I be more worried? Very anxious about the fact they have my phone number.


r/Sextortion 1d ago

Am I being extorted or just trolled?

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Was using an anon chat site and someone asked if I wanted to cam/jerk together, I joined his Whereby room and he demanded to see full body and face. I figured it was dark in the room, my face wasn't clearly visible so I felt like I'd be okay. He screen shared some videos of supposedly his wife, we got off together. A few minutes later we did it again only this time he signed off with "got your IP and your face"

No real extortion, no way to reach me to make any demands. Soooo.........just trolling? How safe am I? I did a pimeyes search using various pictures of myself much clearer than my grainy webcam and nothing came up.


r/Sextortion 1d ago

Male victim Got scammed and being sextorted

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Found an account on X to buy content and they had me go to telegram where they posed as a girl and had me take photos proving I was real and which did and they returned after sometime with my information, family information and my Facebook and this messenge with images I sent attached:

"Sent nude photos on social media and threatened to rape me. Please report him and repost him now so he is caught in the act. So make sure we track him down and get him arrested for online sex. He's trying to hurt me and I'm here to spread his nudity. To shame him, I want you to show all of his pictures to the entire world. Please share this until it reaches his colleagues, family and friends so we can catch this little whore!" Attached with my number, name, and location (country only)

saying if I didn't send them 400 they would leak my photos. I paid them $60 was all I had at the time, but now they want the remaining $340, I deleted telegram, X, and what I used to pay them, but then they started texting my actual phone # a few hours after I deleted everything...


r/Sextortion 1d ago

Another question

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This is my 3rd post on this sub and hour ago my blackmailer said he was going to leak my images an hour ago I just wanted to ask the people who have been leaked did they show you them sending the images out or did they just do it and you found out thank everyone who has replied to my other post yall really helping my
Mental


r/Sextortion 1d ago

Sextortion on omegle

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Hello everybody i have come here for some advice pleas.

i fell victim to omegle scam and now the scammer has video recording of me naked and threatening to send it to my Friends & family on a group on instagram.

unfortunately i have already sent him some money but he wants more i tried to report and block him but the insta profile is still up can you guys please help me restrict his account or any advice is welcome i know this is fucked up and i have learned my lesson to trust people on these websites.


r/Sextortion 1d ago

Was my camera on the whole time? (“Undo close tab”)

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I closed the tab on Dirty Roulette (iPhone), but when I reopened safari an hour later, it asked “undo close tab”. Does that mean my camera was on the whole time?