“Ukraine’s intelligence service says it thwarted a Russian plot to blackmail a local teenage girl into blowing up a police building by threatening to make public intimate pictures on her phone.”
“Ukraine’s intelligence service says it thwarted a Russian plot to blackmail a local teenage girl into blowing up a police building by threatening to make public intimate pictures on her phone.”
It is kind of interesting how that blackmail tactic becomes less effective as we get older
Now that I’m 44, if they tried that with me I’d rather people see my dick in private photos than go to prison for blowing up a building
When I was much younger and far more insecure I’m not sure how I would have handled it
Hell, some of us make our stuff public on purpose. ‘ooh herp derp, look at me, I’m so evil, I’ll re-upload all your pictures and videos that were already posted to your [redacted] channel.’ please, you aren’t hurting me - you’re just making me harder. Oooh, so scary, upping the stakes and threatening thermonuclear war? Bitch I’m a millennial. End my existence daddy uwu. Go on, push the button. PUSH THE BU
(redacted 'cause not the time or place :p)
You reminded me of the attempt by the KGB to blackmail Indonesian President Sukarno by having a bunch of flight attendants have sex with him and planting cameras and microphones to record it
When he heard they recorded his sexual escapades, he was thrilled and asked for a copy of the recording.
Hell yeah. ‘where can I watch it? do you need an editor?’ :P
I first read your comment saying that you would gather people to see your dick in private and got a chuckle out of imagining you renting out an event space to show your friends and family your frank and beans.
I would be happy that anyone is seeing my dick.
If only there was an anonymous forum where one could share material like that…
The problem is this mostly only works on girls. Guys willingly send dick pics.
This is an extremely common scam for both sexes. Guys do not willingly send dick pics to their family members, which is what the scammers threaten them with. College-aged men are the most frequent target if I’m not mistaken.
Ooof mate, are you suggesting that boys can not be extorted? Because some individuals send pics to specific people? And girls do not sense nudes…? What the fuck. How do you even think those pictures came to be?
Not the commenter you replied to, but I would say it’s more effective on women due societal biases. Of course men can be extorted with nudes too, but the same tactic will be more effective if used on a female population. There’s still an expectation for women to be modest, or at least more so than men. How often do you see women topless vs men?
In my mind, the most susceptible group for this sort of blackmail would be teenage boys or young men. They are the most likely to impulsively send nudes that get compromised, and they will be terrified at the thought of their actions going public. No one wants to be thought of as a sexual deviant by their parents / friends.
I feel like this would be much easier to attribute to “boys will be boys” than an excuse for women. The odds of being negatively judged for being a slut are significantly higher for women than they are for a man.
I’m not saying men aren’t negatively judged for these things, but if you took 100 people and showed them equally compromising pictures, my money is on more people negatively judging the woman. It’s a deep rooted societal bias.
I think the reason men are more likely to send unsolicited nudes is because there’s not going to be near as much consequence as compared to a woman. Same reason I think blackmail with nudes is likely more effective on women.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/02/25/teenage-boys-mental-health-suicide-sextortion-scams/78258882007/
Boys have literally killed themselves over this.
At no point did I say this was ineffective at extorting men. I am saying that due to societal biases women tend to be judged (unfairly, in case that’s not clear) more than men for any given sexual activity. This makes blackmail more effective.
I would argue that women are still less likely to engage in extreme violent crimes like this one than men who are, for example, threatened to be exposed as being queer or having weird kinks. Such profiles are harder to foster but much more effective.
YOU ARE WORSE FOR SAYING OOOF LIKE THAT
but also correct
I said mostly. I did not say all