Internet fraud
- On the user's page there is an option to write a review about a person or read other reviews
- In order not to get into a scam, be vigilant and in no case transfer funds to unfamiliar persons
- Before start communication inside the messengers (Telegram, whatsApp, Viber) or e-mail, please read the information carefully
- Dating and chatting via the Internet implies anonymity at the beginning of the dialogue between the interlocutors
- Social network allows you to share photos, videos and other content on your own risk
- An attacker can gain your trust and get your frankness in correspondence, ask you about personal photos or videos
- Attacker can Ask to go to the messenger or another social network, where he/she can identify you and your friends
- Then threaten to send your candid material to your friends
- Murdered woman, 32, 'tied up' and dumped at a playground had started exploring fetLIFE.com website
General recommendations for countering
- Think before you do anything, tell or go to communicate in standard social networks or messengers
- Do not panic - everyone on this planet without clothes is naked
- Do not pay the attacker. Since you will not receive guarantees about his further actions
- The attacker has no evidence of the authenticity of his information. He could edit the text or image in photoshop
- Promptly inform the administration about the attacker
- Do not go to chat outside the fetish dating ecosystem
- If, nevertheless, you decided to give someone your contact details - try to make it impossible to find your real friends or relatives
- If you decide to meet the requirements of the attacker - most likely you will be blackmailed in the future again by attacker
- If you have a page in public social networks - it is better to put all the information about you "only for friends"
- Hide in other social networks phone, e-mail and other information by which you can be identified
- Do not add to "friends" the strangers
- If the piquant information has become public knowledge, it is better to immediately tell the truth. Your friends surely understand, and the attacker will be left without anything.
- No one can blame you for a photo without clothes. You are a free person - do what you want without violating the laws of your country