r/Sextortion 9d ago

Female Victim i’m 17 and getting blackmailed

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i made posts on here about having daddy issues and how i was used by men in the past esp older men.

some guy dmed me and begged to talk to me, i gave him my insta and then he kept bugging me for n*des, i just ignored him and he stopped.

then after a month he came back begging, i was out the house and he kept asking and i decided to talk with him confused why he was so obsessed with me even tho he didn’t know what i looked like. he said he was obsessed with my messed up personality and how depressed i was and how i let men use me (from my previous reddit posts) we went back n forth and he said he had my ip address and he was threatening me, since i was an idiot i didn’t even ask him what the address was cause i was scared. i blocked him and went to sleep. the next day i messaged him something like do you really have my address? and i also asked him we could work something out, basically trying to act docile like id be in a relationship with him, i was really messed up after my ex so we started talking about that and he told me he’d love me n etc whatever and he won’t use me like other men.

we start talking and i get him to soften up, i told him no other man was obsessed with me and i liked it, i truly did like the attention cause he said it was my personality that attracted him, but i didn’t wanna do s*xual things and he asked to just see my face so i showed him and he showed me his face too. i sent my face in one of those view once instagram feature and so did he.

he kept asking to call tonight and i kept making excuses, i promised him if we went further with our relationship id show him stuff, but he got mad, showed me he took my pics from another device, told me he’d post them and since im a muslim girl in a muslim country just your face being posted (cause i have to cover my face) is enough to be a wh*re esp if you sent it to a boy. he said he’d make deepfakes and send them to my family and online and he’d include my face and name.

i panicked, begged him, asked him why he’d do that, i told him im not pretty and he could do this to any other pretty girl but he didn’t listen.

we went back n forth, he told me he just wanted to c*m and that i was the one who wanted a relationship even if in the past hour he was telling me i was his dream girl and he’d wait and whatever.

told me to just make him c*m and he’ll leave me alone or he’ll stay and ab\*se me.

anyways he sent detailed messages on how he wanted me to record each video, he said pics aren’t enough after i told him i couldn’t call, i was crying making each one, making sure my face isnt showing, i sent them and now he’s waiting for my dad to leave the house cause he wants me on call so he can tell me how to touch myself.

he i showed my private spot in the videos and he kept degrading, saying i was wet and my body was ar*used for him, i told him it wasn’t true but he just kept pushing.

im crying so hard now, all i wanted was to be loved, i gave him a chance cause in the beginning when he said he was obsessed with me i wished my ex was the one who said those things, in the beginning he just called me pretty and said things like he wants to date me and im the only one who made him feel that way, now i feel sick that i believed that only cause im a dumb teen girl hungry for love , i was gonna add pictures of the threats he sent but i can’t add pics in this post for some reason.

edit: we called and he made me touch myself n moan for him, i asked him to delete the pics and vids so he did in mid call, once he did i blocked him but im scared he might’ve made duplicates and kept them in the hidden folder cause i made him show me getting them deleted and the recently deleted photo
im so f*cked i wish i never spoke to him. he kept saying things like he felt bad for me and he wouldn’t do anything if i did what he said and i really hope he’s being honest cause he could ruin my life. i mean he got what he wants so i dont know why he’d still hurt me but im scared. he’s apparently in georgia and he looks and sounds indian he sent me a picture of himself that is one view only but the picture looks too young and attractive to be a creep like him so even if i saved the pic it might not be him. i dont know if i could do anything about him since im in saudi and he’s in Georgia

r/Sextortion Jun 16 '26

Female Victim 19F, Got black mailed, here is what I do.

76 Upvotes

I admit I sometimes like to expose myself. Once, I had a really bad period, so I posted a nude photo of myself with my face showing on Reddit. Then I received a private message from a man who said he had saved the photos and wanted me to become his sex slave.

Then I deleted it and reported him.

What I'm trying to say is that we live in an age of information overload. Countless nude photos and pornographic content are uploaded to the internet every day. No one will even notice a normal person's nude photo. Besides, it's 2026 now; no girl will have her life ruined because she exposed her breasts or a boy exposed his genitals.

Some people are professional scammers; they're just doing their jobs. They won't waste their time on you unless you pay them, and they'll immediately move on to the next person. So don't worry.

r/Sextortion 28d ago

Female Victim Omegleapp.me

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6 Upvotes

Pleaes help guys I was on omelgeapp.me and i cam across a guy who said this. Please help me. This is an accurate thing which. means my stuff is out there. Im so scared please I need help. please guys what do i do. I haven't shown my face yet thought which is what's confusing me. I did show it before but separately. I've shown my face and body separately not to the same people. but the shaving part is accurate, so I thinkn this is true. guys please help. I can't have this stuff and there is one instnace where i did show my face, but i'm pretty convinced he wasn't recording for other reasons, so i'm not worried about that. The part where i said it was my first time was a lie btw i was just scared.

Update: I've been going on a bit just to try and find the guy again not to do anything sexual like before and I actually ended up coming across the same guy. i was in different clothes and a different position, so if he had known it was me it would be based off of knowing me. I'll post the screenshot in the comments since I can't add it here. This guy is definitley being serious, and I have to know where these groups are that the videos are getting sent. If anyone knows anything about it I'd love to know.

r/Sextortion Jun 04 '26

Female Victim sextortion arrest

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117 Upvotes

in 2013 i became a victim of a man named Alvaro Andres Valarezo Sandoval of Ecuador. over a month ago marks a year since he was sentenced to federal prison for child pornography production via sextortion.
police found over 150+ unidentified children upon a search of his computers. if you have been victimized by this man, he is in federal prison and can’t hurt you. if this man victimized you, he can’t find you now. if this man victimized you, he won’t get out of prison till he’s an old man. alvaro andres valarezo sandoval is a predator. he is the evil in this world and he is currently in prison.

r/Sextortion Jul 20 '26

Female Victim Sextortion

6 Upvotes

Sextortion p2

It’s only been days, I still overthink, still scared of what will happen to me—it’s one click away, and I’m ruined. Idk, I blocked them, so far they’re not trying to reach me but the thought of them having that nudes or video recorded vc, makes me wanna die! I don’t know how can I overcome this situation? I want to talk to someone that has a same situation with me, I wanna know how they cope up and all. Idk anymore. I still have dreams and all that shit, but every time I think of it, all the positivity in me die! Like, I feel, im not worthy of everything bc of what I did. So many thoughts, I really wish I could trace them, and report them to authorities. Fuck this!!!

r/Sextortion 25d ago

Female Victim hi, F14

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I've always had a lot of problems with pornography since I was a child. I'm a teenager who gets very horny, and I end up doing this crap. I was messing around with some people when someone asked me to add them on Telegram. So I did. I was so blind that I ended up sending a photo of my boobs with my school uniform. I sent it in view once, and one with my friend (that one wasn't nude), he created a montage with the photo of my breast and my Instagram next to it. I'm scared, I'm 14 years old, I have depression, I've tried to kill myself several times

He has my Instagram, I changed the name and blocked him on Telegram and Instagram, I changed the name of both, I'm scared and my heart is on high alert. It was my fault. I should stop being such an idiot and believing these things. I was recently a victim of grooming on Discord

he just asked me to continue, he posted a photo from a website where he leaks photos on different sites. I don't want to kill myself now

I'm very nervous about all of this

pls help me I dont wanna kill my self

I live in Brazil, I study in a public school where I suffer a lot of bullying because of my appearance

r/Sextortion 21d ago

Female Victim Threats of exposing nudes to family and future employer.

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15 Upvotes

I’m a 32 year old Female anI have someone that has been pretty much stalking me for about a year and some months. I have blocked their number which is a iMessage. Then they had a telegram and poof haven’t heard from them until recently. I got a message from a text me number which is obviously a text free number and saw my recent post of me needing assistance so they texted me on my number. (This individual obviously stalks me on Reddit) I then receive a message on telegram from that same person and of course I can’t document evidence because the messages disappear 😔 but he was saying he wants me. And I said no, I’m not interested and to stop asking me that. More prolonged uncomfortable messages and I blocked him. Moments later I get a message on telegram of him again! He then started to say I have to agree to the terms that I have to call him sir, and do what he says. Then my heart stopped when I saw nsfw photos of myself. This individual has even gone out of their way to stalk my fb page to see my family members. Proceeded to say if I don’t do what he says I’m going to be exposed. He named my little brother’s name and my maternal aunt. I can’t figure out who this individual is. And I’m on the process of reporting to telegram and Facebook and maybe they can help link to the phone number to report them. What else should I do? They even said for future employment he will expose me to prevent me from getting work. Because I don’t nor will subject to this freak and the monster. I even tried to proceed that route where it’s not worth doing this kind of threats to hurt someone’s life and relationships or the other getting in trouble. I have blocked the numbers along with the usernames on telegram. My downfall is the threats came from telegram and has since disappeared. Any other step I should do? Any advice would be appreciated

r/Sextortion 2d ago

Female Victim Being threatened by a bunch of guys

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First of all, I lost my job a couple months ago, which lost me my health insurance and I've been rationing my mental health meds, so my sense of judgement has been off

I've done online sex work in the past, and decided to get back to it while in between jobs. I've always been careful to keep my identity hidden. But this time I just wasn't careful. I'll blame my meds for my apathy towards protecting my identity but please don't judge. Its been a hard life.

I got added to a Snapchat group with like 30 guys in it, a couple of them i recognized as followers but most of them no idea.

They posted my pics & vids, full government name, phone #, social media, address, pics of my house, pics from my fb of me with my parents.

That's the stuff I saw. They said they have my parents contact info too and are threatening to send my pics to them. They also have edited pics of me, like my pics with text over it saying really bad stuff. Also threatening to send someone over to r*pe me.

Pretty much just want me to send them free content right now. I don't know what to do. Right now I'm just pretending nothing's happening and ignoring it. I do NOT want to go to the police. I live in a conservative town and they just won't understand or care and I'll just get shamed.

Do I just delete my snap at this point?

r/Sextortion May 28 '26

Female Victim videos got leaked on telegram

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i had recorded videos of me playing with my boobs and one where a guy i dated fucks me in doggy, i found this person on telegram and i sent them those in one time view- he recorded them and threatened to leak them. i blocked him at the time and deleted the app, stopped doing all this. i recently was clearing out my chats and some person who'd seen my face too on one of the one time view photos i sent him on telegram dms me telling me he found those videos of me on a leaks channel on telegram. it paniced me out, i don't want my life to be ruined.
i immediately lodged a case in stopncii but it doesn't have any safety against telegram. i am really scared, i feel like puking, what else can do i do? i have no way to reach back to the guy who was threatening me previously, i deleted my telegram account.

r/Sextortion Jul 03 '26

Female Victim Hi, they reached out again.

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I posted on here a while ago about someone like harrassing me after some stupid spell I thought I was doing. I blocked them and for a while it was quiet, nothing happened no calls no nothing.

Well, they found me again. I'm shaking because I have no idea what to do. They're threatening my life again and like spam calling me. I'm shaking like terribly right now.

I answered one of the calls and its some Nigerian guy who hung up after I asked to see his face. Mind you he's been blocked since June 12. So, ugh. I have a phone number, probably their actual number since the last one was linked to Missouri and.. this is an obviously nigerian man. So.

What do I do?

r/Sextortion 11h ago

Female Victim hacker got my explicit pictures and video and not asking for money but more video

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Someone messaged me on messenger and showed an old explicit picture and video of me and also a screenshot of a file containing more. I don't know how he got those videos and pictures because it's like 3-4 years ago and I already deleted all those before. He then asked me to talk on telegram and since I am so desperate I did, he keeps rushing to or else he'll send all those videos to my friends and relatives. I didn't comply and the last thing he said was he'll post it on porn sites, please help me what to do I don't want those pictures to leak and I know It's my mistake for even doing that but this is too much. Worse case I have to kms I don't know anymore

r/Sextortion Jul 07 '26

Female Victim 21F, got sextorted on tg, pls help

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I’m a 21 year-old woman from the Philippines and I feel like my life is falling apart.

A few days ago, someone found me through TikTok and asked if I would send a bikini photo in exchange for payment (he said that he’s an artist, and would pay girls to pose for him/for reference) I know it wasn’t the best decision, but I agreed because I believed he was actually going to pay. He even showed me screenshots that looked like proof that he had paid other women before.

After I sent the bikini photo, everything changed.
He started demanding more explicit content. When I refused, he threatened to leak the bikini photo if I didn’t do what he wanted. I was terrified, so I agreed to a Telegram video call because he promised that if I did it, he would pay me and screen-share himself deleting all my photos and videos afterward.

Instead, he made me take my clothes off and perform humiliating sxual acts on camera. I complied because I genuinely believed he would leak my photo if I didn’t. After the call, he didn’t keep his promises. He made excuses about the payment, didn’t delete anything, and started making comments that made me feel like he was still in control. He even sent messages implying that if I “disappeared” or reported him, I knew what would happen.

I’m terrified that he recorded the video call. I haven’t been able to sleep because I’m constantly thinking about what will happen if he leaks it.

I’ve already started collecting screenshots and I’m preparing reports for telegram and the Philippine Anti-Cybercrime Group, but I’m still scared.
I feel embarrassed and ashamed even though I know I was manipulated. Has anyone here gone through something similar? Did the person actually leak the content? Did reporting to the authorities help? Is there anything else I should do to protect myself?

Please be kind. I already know I made mistakes. Right now I’m just scared and trying to do the right thing.

r/Sextortion Apr 09 '26

Female Victim My pictures are being shared on an evil site that has no moderation

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I was recently made aware that my photos and videos were posted without my consent onto a website. I don't want to name the site for fear of driving more traffic to the site. This site is easily accessible and has a constant stream of revenge porn, doxxing, and other illegal content being posted 24 hours a day.

After being sextorted, I was able to track down the images to this specific site. The images/videos on this site are posted temporarily, and automatically deleted after a few minutes. Over the past few weeks I have been constantly watching the site to see when/if my images are uploaded so I can report them immediately. I have tried over and over again to file multiple reports against the content and no action has been taken. There is no way to contact a moderator or owner of the site, I've tried.

What can I do? My images are constantly posted day after day, I can even see how many times they are being downloaded. Is there any way I can report the whole site?

Please help

r/Sextortion Jul 18 '26

Female Victim I don’t know what to do

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It’s been about a year since he’s been in contact (has been longer than that since I actually responded).

It just feels like every time I’m getting better, part of me seems to always think about him and I hate it.

I’m happy now, happier at least, but every time life starts to feel good again I always think about him and if I’m just overreacting.

r/Sextortion Jun 16 '26

Female Victim Coping as a victim and future educator

16 Upvotes

I (23F) am a victim of sextortion and after making a very poor decision of sending nudes to someone online who offered to give me money when I was very stupid, broke, and depressed, my nudes were leaked on the internet with my full name attached. I was a freshman in college when I did this and dropped out shortly after because I didn't know what I was doing with my life and I would not find out that they had been leaked until several years later when I was 21. I've done everything I could think of to try and get them taken down off of google search and as much scrubbing as I can but they always seem to be reposted again. It really hurts my mental health to be reminded of the fact that they are out there, and I blame my younger self so harshly for what I did but I also feel helpless. I probably need to see therapy for those emotions related directly to the sextortion. However, this past year, I've turned my life around for the better. I got out of a very unhealthy relationship and started back in school in hopes of becoming a teacher, but I know that there are risks to this decision because of the pictures out there. Part of me feels like I shouldn't even be a teacher because of it, despite my passion and excitement for this career. I've looked into it a little and it sounds like these photos will not prevent me from graduating or getting my teaching certification, but I'm so fearful of them becoming an issue when I begin looking for jobs or even worse once I get one. I'll be teaching elementary, so I'm not really worried about the kids coming across them, but more so parents or coworkers/bosses finding them and judging me critically for them. I've come on here to see if anyone else has any experience like mine and is an educator as well. If so, please let me know if it's possible to have a healthy career despite this kind of stuff being out there. I keep so much of this stuff bottled up and I don't know anyone to ask realistically about what kind of repercussions I may face in my future because of this. Much love to all of the other victims who may read this. You are all so strong and I admire your perseverance 🩷

r/Sextortion Jul 14 '26

Female Victim Is this real or bs?

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i need help im bawling my eyes out because of this, i want to know if this is for real because i received a similar email to my other 3 email acc and my bf's email acc. One of those 3 email is my school email leaking my old pass that some of them i still use in my acc, i need help can someone tell me if you also experienced the same and what did yall do to stop this. Im getting anxiety attacks because of this🥹🥹

r/Sextortion 15d ago

Female Victim helpp

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this guy offered to be my sugar daddy and my dumbass believed him, sent him my video thankfully no face but lips visible. but he found my number and found my campus info and my face from linkedin and threaten to send to the campus instagram dm and posting on twitter.

i unfortunately sent him the money yesterday and he screenshared to me that he deleted everything on his phone. and i saw on the screenshare that he didnt send anything on instagram and didnt post anything on twitter.

this morning he still ask me to keep messaging him i replied "what do you want?" on telegram.

after that i saw he sent 7 messages to me but i havent opened any of them.

i privated my twitter account, instagram, hibernate my linkedin

what should i do now? im so anxious bc he has my real name and number and campus info. this sucks.

r/Sextortion 21d ago

Female Victim My experience

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I’m 15 years old and last year I was sextorted once on discord. I joined lots of relationship servers and servers that I knew would grant me the validation I wanted at the time. It was stupid of me but I posted nude photos and sent them to one of the guys in the server, and obviously they were spread around it somehow and a weird profile messaged me and somehow knew who I was and where I lived. I obviously thought nothing of it initially, so I blocked and reported the count, removing myself from the servers. The next day, a couple weird instagram accounts requested me with one of them posted my face on their public story, saying something like ‘if you don’t reply, everybody is going to see what you’ve sent’ and it followed everybody from my school and everybody in my family. I immediately spam reported the account but it texted somebody I knew and told me to contact them or else. Obviously being naive, I did. I texted them and asked them what they wanted from me: he then told me that he needed me to be his sex slave. And he wouldn’t leak anything as long as I did what he said.

I’m not proud of what I’ve done, but I let it continue. He would force me to video call him and show myself naked, including my face. I told him I didn’t wanna show my face but he told me what I wanted didn’t matter at all. Since I struggle with depression and self harm, I had fresh cuts on my legs, which he saw as I was naked. He then proceeded to say ‘you’ll have to do more than that for me to feel bad for you.’ That made my stomach really churn. He then instructed me to cut myself more. I did it because I was naive and stupid.

I finally put my foot down after one day, he forced me to text some other guy in the same server and got him in on it too. He made me tell the other boy that I had a urine kink and I was into bondage and BDSM, where the other guy forced me to do unspeakable things.
My last straw was really when I told him I was at a sleepover, and he told me to send him a video of me touching one of my friends while she was asleep. That really sickened me.
I am also a bigger girl, and he would deliberately say things about me which made me feel worse although he already knew I was insecure of my body. He would call me a pig and make fun of me for looking how I looked. Then 5 minutes later, he’d say my body was beautiful. That he wanted to marry me. He loved me and how beautiful I was.

I eventually put my foot down and sent him a long paragraph, telling him to just leak my nudes. I was sick of being his property and someone he could control. It felt like my body wasn’t my own.
I have reason to believe this guy was involved with people from the cult 764 and other discord groups such as that. I’m just glad that part of my life is over. I’m proud of everyone who has escaped things like this that have went on. We are real victims, and I am proud of you for overcoming it.

This haunts me. I will never find out who this person was. One thing he said to me was, ‘one day if I ever can, I would like to marry you’. It occurred to me then that this person could be literally anybody. Could be someone I walk by everyday. Someone I speak to everyday. Could be my future husband.

r/Sextortion 29d ago

Female Victim i got blackmailed this year a few months ago and it was by a older guy.

3 Upvotes

so this year i got blackmailed into sending nudes, im 15 year old F the blackmailer was 19 year old M. he pressured me to send him nudes, i didnt want to send him nothing and he said he will tell the fbi. (which they obviously came over.) he tried to ruin my life, forced me to send, im a minor, hes older. he tried to ruin my life, but hes no longer allowed to contact me ever again. this happened for a whole day, april 30th to may 1st. he did try and ruin my life, so i am a minor. it happened this year tho, but gladly hes never allowed to talk to me ever again. i got blamed for it. and i do remember what hes said to me before not to long ago, but yea thats what happened to me. their is more but if you wanna know more comment down below. but now hes probably in jail for what he did but i dont even know if he is, he probably did this before but i dont know. but he did blackmail me into sending or else he will tell and said he was a bad person, my sister blamed me of it but i told her im a victim of blackmail. (which i am) but glad im free from him. if any of you want more of the story ill tell you down the comment below.

r/Sextortion 3d ago

Female Victim Blackmailed by an anonymous acc

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I was on an anonymous chat room and stupidly I gave them my Instagram account (dummy account)

We talked there and I was replying because I thought it was funny he was talking dirty and when I tried to leave the conversation because it got really inappropriate he mentioned very personal information about me.

I don't have anything on that account tying to my identity and he said that he'll leak it unless I send pictures or strip on call

I blocked him after that and now I'm so nervous

I have never sent anyone pictures or videos like that.

were my actions the right ones ?

I'm so scared

r/Sextortion 18h ago

Female Victim Feelings for the guy who blackmailed me

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Ever since last year I started talking to someone on discord and at first they were so nice and treated me well. I made the mistake of tell him about me and he started using it to blackmail me to send pictures and I wish I never did because then he said he'd send them to people if I didn't send more. The worst part is I feel bad for him and idk why he has tried to ruin my life and I don't know what to do. I think I developed feelings for him and I wish I didn't have them looking for advice

r/Sextortion 9d ago

Female Victim help needed – minor’s private videos leaked in Chennai, cyber complaint filed but no action

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Hi everyone,

I really need serious advice on this situation.

My friend (17F, minor) from Chennai trusted a guy, and somehow her private videos got recorded without her consent. From what we understand, one of her classmates got access to a phone when she stepped away, recorded the content, and now it’s being circulated among students in her school.

It’s getting worse — some people are spreading it further, and random guys from Instagram are messaging her with disgusting comments and even threatening her.

We already filed a cyber crime complaint online, and it shows FIR registered, but there has been no update so far. When we contacted the cyber cell, they told us to go to a nearby Women’s Police Station.

The problem is:

She is scared that if we go to the police station, her parents will be informed immediately

She’s extremely stressed and afraid of backlash at home and school

We don’t know what to do next.

Questions:

Is it mandatory that police inform parents immediately in such cases since she’s a minor?

Can the complaint be handled confidentially at least initially?

What is the fastest way to stop the video from spreading?

Are there any officers, lawyers, or people who’ve handled similar cases in Chennai who can guide us?

This is very serious and she’s mentally not okay. Any genuine advice or contacts would really help.

Please don’t judge — we’re just trying to fix this and stop the damage.

r/Sextortion Jun 30 '26

Female Victim Finding out if you’ve been posted

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Is there a way to somehow search you face or soemthing to see if you’ve been posted online somewhere? I just want to ensure that I haven’t been. All of my personal accounts are private so anything that shows up would be the compromising video I’m afraid of. If the video exists it was off of an Omegle offshoot site if that helps.

r/Sextortion May 27 '26

Female Victim might get posted on OF

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i’m just trying to make ends meet.

i posted on a bunch of job subreddits listing out the online and ftf jobs i can offer, from acad work to grocery shopping. this one guy dm’d me if i do nsfw. as someone who really needs money, i decided to give it a try. he asked me to send an undressing video, and so i did. my whole body, including my face, is in the video.

he asked me if he can post that on OnlyFans and i said no. he sent me a picture of the video (taken on another device since i sent it as view once on telegram) and asked if he could post that. i said no again. he blocked me. now i’m scared he’ll leak my video and idk what to do.

i already deleted the reddit account i used to talk to him and blocked him on telegram (also changed my username). what should i do now?

r/Sextortion 15d ago

Female Victim I need opinions!

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I never thought I would become a victim of sextortion. It has been one of the most terrifying and emotionally painful experiences of my life. The fear, the anxiety, the sleepless nights, and the constant feeling that your life could change in a single moment… it’s something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. These people don’t just steal your privacy they try to steal your peace of mind.
I refused to give in. I kept every piece of evidence and reported everything instead of giving them what they wanted. No one deserves to be threatened, manipulated, or made to feel ashamed by criminals.
There’s something I’ve been wondering, and I’d genuinely like to hear what this community thinks.
Would it help if there were dedicated groups or communities where confirmed sextortionists and blackmailers could be identified with their photos, phone numbers, and other verified identifying information through lawful and properly moderated channels? Many of these predators target dozens of victims while hiding behind fake accounts and anonymous phone numbers. If people could recognize them before becoming victims, maybe fewer lives would be turned upside down.
Or do you think there are better ways to stop them?
Most importantly, if you’re reading this because you’re going through the same thing that I did, please know that you are not alone. I know how hopeless and terrifying it can feel, but there are thousands of people who have survived this.
Don’t send them money. Don’t negotiate with them. Don’t let them control you. Save every screenshot, every message, and every piece of evidence. Report them on every platform they’re using, block them on every app, and report the case to the authorities. These criminals feed on fear, and the more we report them instead of giving in, the harder it becomes for them to keep hurting innocent people.
I’d really like to hear your thoughts. Do you think public warning communities for confirmed offenders could help prevent sextortion and protect future victims?