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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764 (www.wired.com)

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A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This happened to my adult partner. She was playing OW and someone in that lobby started PMing her for nudes, threatening to disconnect out internet. They ended up ddosing us. Then they were saying how they wouldnt turn it back on without nudes or they would tell her "parents".

Most likely they got our IP when she went into a lobby and targeted due to the feminine handle. All I could think after changing IPs was "this guy must be doing this to children". But this was a few years ago before OW2 was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Same tbh, years ago happened to my girlfriend at the time basically like you describe, ddos our internet, demand nudes. Though I think a lot of that sort of sextortion isn't necessarily on the level of "funnel into a torture cult" described in the article, and a lot of the people doing this are teenage boys acting alone.