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Blackmailer threatens to release fake nudes in sextortion scam
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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10/21/2023
A teenager has spoken of his terror at being the target of an emerging sextortion trend - deep fakes. Blackmailers threatened to release doctored nude images of him if he didn't comply.
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I was just genuinely scared.
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I thought this could really ruin my life.
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So as fake as these pictures were, the threat was very much real.
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Mateo became the victim of sextortion after he added someone on Snapchat.
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They threatened to release fake nudes of him unless he transferred them money.
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Our real concern is around these deep fakes and what we're starting to see as some emerging
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trends which is that they are taking the face of an individual and imposing that on a nude
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body or a sexually explicit photograph.
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So if you saw something dodgy online, would you question if it was real?
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With the rise of AI, doctored images are going to look more and more realistic.
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We need to understand that if someone sends us, "Here's a nude image of someone you know,"
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we should just delete that.
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We shouldn't be opening it and looking at it because that empowers someone to sextort,
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as it were.
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It's certainly an offence that we feel is very under-reported.
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Do not pay the scammers.
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As hard as that is going to be, it's actually worse if you pay them.
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I guess we just live in a time where technology really is that advanced and we can be left
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vulnerable never in a million years, but I thought this would ever happen to me, but
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here I am.
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Experts recommend victims immediately report extortion to social media platforms and authorities.
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