The Dump - "Whatif?" Questions Have Answers Here

Cactusking45,

It's been 3 days and no scammer details were posted by you to help others in the same boat.

Referring to our forum rules posted earlier by our Admin to you here:
https://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/vie ... p?f=3&t=19

You show a total lack of concern for the staff by ignoring our requests for information, the members here who have shared, and for other victims of your own scammer who need immediate help, so I am permanently deactivating your account.

Our site relies on the exchange of information. If you are unwilling to do this, then you will be removed from this site. You found us because of what others shared - refusing to do the same goes against the spirit of the site and will not be tolerated.

Readers take note.
http://scamsurvivors.com/forum/viewtopi ... 20&t=53071

we are trying all combinations but have not been successful yet, we even tried srilankan guy cam etc.

And there's your problem. The steps are very specific in what to use for the Google alert. What you're doing is going to throw up numerous false positives.

Turnbull,

We have not received any form with scammer details from you, meaning that you ignored our direction to go to the blackmailscams link, so this conversation will end now. This topic is locked.

Hi guys, I got scammed some 15 hours ago and I came across this site on Google.

Great job on the site, it is really heartening to see a community so informative and encouraging.

I got hit on Skype and on hindsight I was pretty stupid and it was very obvious on what was happening. In my defense I woke up little less than 10 minutes before I was chatting the 'girl' up. I am working in Asia right now and an asian girl who spoke decent English was a bit of an exotic rarity.

Anyway they did their thing and they found my Facebook page which also displayed my relationship status. Without missing a beat they went into her page and started being threatening. At that point I was pretty worried though mostly amused (kidnapped and held hostage once in South Africa numbs you a bit; also no family added on fb and my mates would be more amused by any videos than anything. I owned my own business which listed but the page is very secure). The first thought that came across my mind was that I could at least delete my fb if things went badly, but it was my gf that really worried me and I guess that was the leverage the scammers were looking for.

The thing about my gf's page is that it is nonfunctional in that it was already hacked and Facebook staff were lazy by just disabling it. The page's privacy was at least set to the highest setting meaning friend lists, wall postings etc were disable though it was a risk in a way that it was something I couldn't manage directly. So the first thing I did was to 'contact' Facebook in order to pull the page down and hope the scammer doesn't find my gf's current real fb page.

Interesting fact is that I can log onto my gf's other facebook page anytime I want so if anything happens I can react immediately (I am also changing her privacy settings now to make sure).

I also made a third facebook account which I used to check if everything is water tight. As far as I know, other people cannot post on our walls, cannot comment on our postings unless friended and cannot see our occupations. The only way for them to share the video will be to upload the video somewhere (google alert set up already) then to message an acquaintance by FB messanger. I am not too worried about that as google alert is very capable as well as the fact that unfriended messages gets filtered to junk automatically anyways (that and guy friends don't give an ass). I took the extra precaution of deactivating my Facebook account and I plan to use my gf's FB account (scammer doesn't know about the real one) to work and socialise.

I blocked the scammer on Skype already and I really don't think the scammer can get to me unless they can manage to sneak past google alert. I hope I didn't miss anything.

Wow, is everyone missing the links every freaking where on the site to blackmailscams.com today? Maybe I need to just redirect the sextortion section of the forum directly there and be done with it.

I logged out of Skype deactivated my facebook account and blocked the scammer. Right so far? Now waiting for four weeks before I log back in. You say the best choice is to create new facebook, new username and email, will scammer come find me because he has friend list and I make friends with same people? Isn't it same as reactivating deactivated account change username and use that?

I deactivated all social networking accounts with my information/friends on it but have unrelated unlinked accounts on facebook skype with no personal on it. Also delete and deactivate?

No, it is not the same as reactivating old account. Anything used with a scammer is compromised, and any email used, phone number to create it as well. Warn your friends about the scammer, too, as the steps advise, or they could become targets too.

It's essential you follow ALL the steps.
http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/view ... 20&t=16300

All your social accounts means all of them. You do not want the scammer to find you online anywhere, and some small detail you may have missed thinking they can't find you might be there.

It's essential you follow ALL the steps.
http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/view ... 20&t=16300

Okay, so best thing is create new facebook account after 4 weeks? Adding old friends from previous account okay? They have friend list, no?