# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/61 "2010-04-23T02:08:00Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > I want to thank you all for revealing to the world at large how you are pretty much retirees worrying about medicare and bitching at how the kids these days can learn how to build bombs on the internet and how the negroe president is really articulate. Maybe they’re Scientologists looking for smeary payback. Isn’t (Aren’t?) 4chan/Anonymous the people who’ve been protesting against the loony cult for the past few years? Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about 4chan/Anonymous except hearing about their anti-scientology efforts. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/62 "2010-04-23T07:59:45Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Maybe they’re Scientologists looking for smeary payback. Isn’t (Aren’t?) 4chan/Anonymous the people who’ve been protesting against the loony cult for the past few years? > > Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about 4chan/Anonymous except hearing about their anti-scientology efforts. You’re exactly right. 4chan and Anonymous are humanitarian organizations. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/63 "2010-04-23T10:42:28Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > You’re exactly right. 4chan and Anonymous are humanitarian organizations. In the same way that people who eat vegetables are vegetarians. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/64 "2010-04-23T10:51:53Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > In the same way that people who eat vegetables are vegetarians. Exactly. This guy’s got it. ---
**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 23, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/65 "2010-04-23T15:07:18Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Maybe they’re Scientologists looking for smeary payback. Isn’t (Aren’t?) 4chan/Anonymous the people who’ve been protesting against the loony cult for the past few years? > > Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about 4chan/Anonymous except hearing about their anti-scientology efforts. 4chan doesn’t protest. They riot. Yes, occasionally they’ll pull pranks that amuse everyone and seem to be doing some public good, but this offends many of them who’ll then try to piss off people just so there is no love lost between 4chan and the public. Some of their[finest work (SFW unless I suppose you work at a very conservative religious organization, in which case what are you doing on the SDMB?)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vciwZjo3oXQ). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/66 "2010-04-27T01:18:05Z")
Wait a minute! You mean there are hot chicks online who will strip at my command FOR FREE??? Um, link? ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/67 "2010-04-27T08:44:22Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Save it for Mardi Gras. Beads an dat. That can come back to bite you in the ass too. My wife and I know a girl who ‘did like the Romans’ and flashed for beads on Bourbon Street and let herself be videotaped doing it. A couple of years later she became a contestant on a reality show. Of course, the footage surfaced and rapidly found its way to the Internet. She isn’t the typical tramp-stamped reality TV fodder; she’s actually an extremely sensitive girl, and was thoroughly mortified when she discovered it. Fortunately for her, it’s pretty much vanished from the web now. ---
**Author:** ![holliedempsey\_yahoo.co.uk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@holliedempsey\_yahoo.co.uk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holliedempsey_yahoo.co.uk)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/68 "2012-02-05T02:01:38Z")
> [@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. I’ve just been blackmailed and im really scared ☹ I dont know what to do because if i delete him, he might post the videos and if i dont he said he was coming back and could threaten me again. And he wanted me to do something with my cat but i sed she was out. Im really scared ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/69 "2012-02-05T02:06:15Z")
What is the threat? What is the payment that is being demanded? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/70 "2012-02-05T02:43:02Z")
And posting your user name which is your full name and email address is probably the best way to score anonymity in this situation. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/71 "2012-02-05T03:19:38Z")
> [@holliedempsey\_yahoo.co.uk](#): > > I’ve just been blackmailed and im really scared ☹ I dont know what to do because if i delete him, he might post the videos and if i dont he said he was coming back and could threaten me again. And he wanted me to do something with my cat but i sed she was out. Im really scared ☹ That’s sick, a cat?!? Now a llama or a panda I can see, but a cat, that’s f\*ed up! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/72 "2012-02-05T04:00:10Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I’d rather be embarrassed about doing something stupid, and have my parents yell at me than to mess around with a dog. But what if it were a really hot dog? ---
**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:** [February 5, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/73 "2012-02-05T04:07:55Z")
You know what I hate? When a zombie post comes up, and you read the beginning, and some idiot posts something that makes you go “what a stupid guy, who rammed a stick up his ass?”, and that idiot turns out to be me. I hate that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/74 "2012-02-05T04:09:49Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > But what if it were a really hot dog? Then it should be approached with relish. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/75 "2012-02-05T04:39:20Z")
> [@holliedempsey\_yahoo.co.uk](#): > > I’ve just been blackmailed and im really scared ☹ I dont know what to do because if i delete him, he might post the videos and if i dont he said he was coming back and could threaten me again. And he wanted me to do something with my cat but i sed she was out. Im really scared ☹ The answer is obvious, you have to show him that you can’t be pushed around. First, fuck your cat. Then _you_ show the video of _that_ to everybody, absolutely everybody. I mean your folks, your friends, your teachers, your teacher’s friends, everybody. That’ll teach him. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/76 "2012-02-05T04:54:05Z")
> [@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. LFMAO! No shit! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/77 "2012-02-05T05:02:55Z")
I’m a little concerned about that post above. As **ladyfoxfire** mentioned, putting your IRL name and email address in your handle is kinda problematic, from a “being stupid” perspective. When added to the fact that the post itself is somewhat bizarre, I think, not only are we being played for fools, it’s possible that some third party is victimizing this young lady as a prank. I have conveyed my concerns to the mods by reporting her post, and suggested that her handle be redacted from the board, just in case some joker decides to use it to harass an innocent. Just as a suggestion, it might not be a great idea to have that handle repeated in live quotes. Not trying to be a Junior Mod or anything, just sayin’… ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/78 "2012-02-05T05:13:59Z")
> [@holliedempsey\_yahoo.co.uk](#): > > I’ve just been blackmailed and im really scared ☹ I dont know what to do because if i delete him, he might post the videos and if i dont he said he was coming back and could threaten me again. And he wanted me to do something with my cat but i sed she was out. Im really scared ☹ It’s that Beyonce dance, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/79 "2012-02-05T06:13:58Z")
> [@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. Blackmail was never the plan. I’m going with bribery. With a Jameson mug. 😃 ---
**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:** [February 5, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874/80 "2012-02-05T14:08:32Z")
Don’t toy with my emotions! I still haven’t replaced that mug. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ew-blackmailing-girls-using-a-web-cam/536874.md?page=5)