A student from Moscow was blackmailed after sending intimate photos on Telegram

A student from Moscow became a victim of blackmail after he sent intimate photos to a Telegram user who introduced himself as a girl named "Daria". This was announced on October 17 by a source of Izvestia.

According to his information, the young man met the user online and sent her pictures during the correspondence. After that, the interviewee sent a link to a third-party resource and asked to register there. When the authorization attempt was unsuccessful, the attacker sent the student his personal data and began threatening to distribute it.

She demanded money for non-disclosure of information. The victim agreed to the blackmailer's terms and transferred 4 thousand rubles to the specified account first, and then another 5 thousand rubles. The total amount of damage amounted to 9 thousand rubles.

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The man informed about the package and began to clarify the details of its receipt, including the possibility of parking. When the girl asked the sender's name, the interlocutor called her father Sergey Anatolyevich Koval, who died 15 years ago.