Dossier
StopNCII
Coverage of StopNCII in the Nexus archive.
- Person Threatening to send video to people on Facebook.
A 19-year-old was manipulated into a private video call by someone pretending to be romantically interested. The person secretly recorded the call and demanded $150 in Bitcoin, threatening to share the video with the victim's Facebook contacts. The victim has not paid and is seeking advice after using StopNCII and filing an IC3 report.
- Fell for sextortion i believe
A person was targeted in a sextortion scam by an individual in Algeria who initially engaged in intimate conversations and later blackmailed them with threats to leak nudes. The victim reported the incident to the FBI and StopNCII but acknowledges the scammer likely has no legal recourse due to the consensual nature of the interactions.