17-Year-old should blackmailer-Mails have been sent

The mesh is always the same: Supposedly, Criminals are claiming in e-mails, they would have taken Internet users on pornographic websites were on the road. Now, the investigators have presented a suspect. It has to be a 17-Year-old from Bremen. On his account, at least 150 extortion to go try. the Moritz vulture

In the British Science Fiction series "Black Mirror" there is a very grim Episode about a young man who is being blackmailed by anonymous SMS-writers. You force him to do anything you ask of me. Otherwise, the threat, would you send pictures of it to all his contacts, pictures, show him Masturbating, and also those images that encourage him to Masturbate. The story is about the question of how far a person goes, to prevent its innermost sphere of privacy is open to the public.

The Bavarian Landeskriminalamt and the Central office Cybercrime Bayern have now to inform you about a quite wave of similar cases, in real life, of course. Thus, half have since the first year of 2018, extortion attempts, heaped up, running to the LKA, all the same: people get via E-Mail, the message, your Computer is infected with a malicious software with the help of shots on the Webcam made. Then pressure is applied, the offender claimed to have Videos, the the computer user, "when you visit pornographic sites" and "sexual acts" showed, and which would be widely used in the environment of the person Concerned, if he pay no hush money in the Form of the crypto-currency Bitcoin.

Multiple offender

Alone in Bavaria has already been used to display more than 3200 cases, says Bamberger, a senior Prosecutor Christian Schorr. "You have to assume that the Mails were sent in much greater mass." Actually, the computer is not infected but. The authorities are convinced that "independently of each other, several perpetrators," such Mails have been sent.

After all, a suspect identified already: In November 2018, officials would have the room of a 17-Year-old in his parents ' house in Bremen searched the LKA. Him would put "the current state of the proceedings, nearly 150 of these attempted extortion acts." The young people should have rented in addition, in a fraudulent way, several Internet server, which should have been needs for further offences, and "the shipment of the extortionate E-Mails, miss." Whether the offender has, in fact, stolen money, is not yet clear, says a senior Prosecutor Schorr. A case in which a drunk is more open to the demand of the extortionists received, you have not noticed yet.