Beware naked video chat
A handful of New Zealand internet users have been blackmailed after taking part in naked video chat sessions with overseas scammers, a cyber-safety organisation said Monday.
NetSafe said the scammers threatened to upload webcam footage onto internet websites.
NetSafe said some of the victims had paid up to 500 US dollars to blackmailers as far afield as the Philippines and Morocco.
“It’s a very difficult situation to find yourself in – we’ve had users afraid of friends and family seeing the videos or losing their jobs. Once an initial sum has been sent through, the requests for more money keep coming,” NetSafe chief executive Martin Cocker said.
NetSafe said internet scams of all types had cost New Zealanders a total of 3.5 million US dollars over the last 12 months, about one-third of that related to dating and romance fraud.
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