How a fake Justin Bieber "sextorted" hundreds of girls through Facebook(arstechnica.com)

12 pointsby evo_914 lat temu5 comments

How a fake Justin Bieber "sextorted" hundreds of girls through Facebook

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/how-a-fake-justin-bieber-sextorted-hundreds-of-girls-through-facebook.ars

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pathdependent14 lat temu

I wonder how often extortion occurs online as people share self-generated, sexually explicit media. I read something similar last year about Craigslist casual encounters, albeit in that case the extortion was perpetrated for financial gain. My guess would be that it is much more common than is acknowledge. The scammer exploits an inherently emotional and irrational process to gain leverage over a truly unsuspecting victim.

sudobear14 lat temu

For some reason, I have been thinking that Facebook membership was restricted to users over eighteen. I am obviously mistaken, but it occurs to me that this was their policy at some point. Does anyone know?

arockwell14 lat temu

You must be at least 13 https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=210644045634222

Because of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...

drcube14 lat temu

What that actually means is that you have to claim a birth date of over 13 years ago. There are certainly plenty of children younger than that on Facebook.

arockwell14 lat temu

Yes, this is absolutely true. I should have worded my post more clearly to indicate that this is the policy not the reality.