# Ew. Blackmailing girls using a web cam. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 21, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874 "2010-04-21T16:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/21 "2010-04-21T17:48:15Z")
I’ve seen some Chatroulette screenshots where the girls were clearly about 14 and the man was maybe 30. How long until someone gets busted for having kiddie porn? But yes, please, tell the kids about screenshots (and thank the heavens the internet was nonexistent or in its infancy when I was young and dumb). I’ve said it before, but they should be learning about all this stuff at school, along with media literacy. The fewer educated adults forwarding me spam and getting scammed on Craigslist, the better. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/22 "2010-04-21T17:57:02Z")
> [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](#): > > It isn’t just the fact that they’re naked, it’s that people will know they were stupid enough to actually remove their clothes for complete strangers on the internet. That’s the embarrassing part of it. Most parents would probably never let their kids go on the internet ever again if they found out. There goes Facebook and msn messenger! I’d rather be embarrassed about doing something stupid, and have my parents yell at me than to mess around with a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/23 "2010-04-21T17:59:59Z")
And again I thank the all-knowing kidgiver that I got all boys. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/24 "2010-04-21T18:07:20Z")
I saw an amusing video of this once, I can’t remember the exact details but it was something like a webcam equivilant of omegle, someone had linked up a static photo of a cat with, er, the hammer of damocles dangling over its head and made it appear as his webcam somehow. Then he’d type “tits or the cat gets it”. Worked occasionally, assuming the video was real. All in good humour. No one underage in it either. I should imagine that that risk is overblown. ---
**Author:** ![Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fake_Tales_of_San_Francisco)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/25 "2010-04-21T18:08:32Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I’d rather be embarrassed about doing something stupid, and have my parents yell at me than to mess around with a dog. Oh me too definitely! But then I’m not 14 so I don’t really know what’s going on their heads. I’ve never come across any stories of dog shenanigans to be honest. It’s mostly stuff replicating sex acts that they’re after. Still no less sick, mind. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/26 "2010-04-21T18:27:24Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > ‘Do as I say right this minute, or I’ll… I’ll take my clothes off at you!’ For some of, us that may be a more effective threat than you think. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/27 "2010-04-21T18:28:38Z")
Yeah, this just kinda happened on 4chan recently, except without the blackmail. Girl was complaining about her body, got talked into posting pics, she was made fun of, pics were sent to her family, and they got her dad’s phone number and called him to tell him about it. Pretty horrible all around. Which is basically /b/'s MO. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/28 "2010-04-21T19:12:14Z")
Yes, those are the people who think taunting the mother of a suicide is a laugh, why not blackmail girls once you’re done calling Mom? ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/29 "2010-04-21T19:29:03Z")
Oh I’ve heard of 4chan before–I don’t know why they didn’t immediately pop into my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/30 "2010-04-21T20:08:30Z")
Somewhere on the interwebs right now, there’s two blackmailers trying to get the other to show their peens. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/31 "2010-04-21T20:14:20Z")
More like two blackmailers with peens trying to get the other to show the vajeens they don’t have. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/32 "2010-04-21T20:19:54Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > More like two blackmailers with peens trying to get the other to show the vajeens they don’t have. Well played sir; I like the cut of your jib. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/33 "2010-04-21T20:21:28Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > And again I thank the all-knowing kidgiver that I got all boys. Yeah, thankfully _they’re_ not susceptible to online mischief… ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/34 "2010-04-21T20:22:50Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Well played sir; I like the cut of your jib. Plz show us the cut of your jib. Kthxbi! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/35 "2010-04-21T21:16:43Z")
Hell, even adults fall for this. I knew a guy whose AoL account was suspended due to a complaint from a woman regarding nude photos of said guy sent to her–after she had asked said guy for them! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/36 "2010-04-21T21:33:15Z")
Remember that one story about the kid in WI (I think) who pretended to be a girl at the local high school, then got a bunch of boys to send him pictures of their junk, then blackmailed them? He even got some of the boys to perform sexual acts on him because the girl he was pretending to be was threatening to show the pics and to tell them about the sex acts they’d engaged in. It was a pretty fucked up story because it went beyond silly cyber-threats, the kid actually _knew_ these people, and got pictures of boys from the high school blowing him. It was kind of fucked up. I should probably Google what I’m talking about and link, but I’m too lazy. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/37 "2010-04-21T21:39:21Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Remember that one story about the kid in WI (I think) who pretended to be a girl at the local high school, then got a bunch of boys to send him pictures of their junk, then blackmailed them? He even got some of the boys to perform sexual acts on him because the girl he was pretending to be was threatening to show the pics and to tell them about the sex acts they’d engaged in. It was a pretty fucked up story because it went beyond silly cyber-threats, the kid actually _knew_ these people, and got pictures of boys from the high school blowing him. > > It was kind of fucked up. I should probably Google what I’m talking about and link, but I’m too lazy. Or you could just read post 2. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/38 "2010-04-22T02:31:58Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Um, I’d rather my friends see a picture of my tits than to mess around with a dog. I guess I wouldn’t make a very good blackmail target. Hi, friend! Please show me them MeanOldTitties!!! > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > You’re just the life of the party. I guess you haven’t run across EP before. He has, um, issues. We don’t like to talk about it. > [@put\_down\_the\_sabre](#): > > Learn to take a joke, idiot. Sadly, he refuses. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/39 "2010-04-22T02:33:07Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s funny because of… er… > > Because blackmail is funny. And it involves underage girls. And shit. > > Fuck, I’m slapping my thighs at the incredible wit now. Oscar Wilde must be rolling in his grave! Nonsense. Oscar Wilde only looks at little boy’s webcams. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/40 "2010-04-22T03:02:02Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I guess you haven’t run across EP before. He has, um, issues. We don’t like to talk about it. > Sadly, he refuses. **RR** , you pesky little monkey! \ Here’s a dollar, now go off and play. Stay away from webcams though, for God’s sake. Nobody needs to see that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874.md?page=3)