Sendt private photos, now they are threatening to spread them, what to do?

Hello,
This is not an easy situation to be in, but here are the recommendations we useally give in these situastions.

• Do not pay, no matter what they are threatening to do. If you pay you only show that you have money and are willing to use it. If you have allready paid, it is important to stop paying. Likely they will just keep coming with new demands if you pay while you have no guarantee that they will not spread it.
• Report this to the Police so they can create a case and gather evidence, which is also something you should consider. Gather as much as possible about what has happend. This could be screenshots, which apps used, profiles etc.
• Stop the contact between you and the person making threats. If you completely ignore them, it is likely they realise they are wasting their time and might move on. Most of the time they do this to try and earn money, and they do not want to waste their time. However this does not allways work, but sometimes it does
• After reporting the incident and gathering evidence you could report the account on the platform it is on to try and get it taken down

Besides this there is unfortunately not much we can do until the pictures are published. If they do get published you can contact Slettmeg.no to get help to get them removed.

In the meantime there are a couple of things you could do to try and reduce the chance of it spreading.

• Make your Instagram account private
• Hide your friendslist on facebook and make sure only friends could see your timeline
• Make other accounts connected to you and your name private

Lastly we recommend you to consider warning friends and family that a person might try to contact them. Explain to them that it is a scam and to ignore everything they say.

If she needs someone to talk to there are also multiple phones and chats available. You can find multiple here on Ung.no: https://www.ung.no/snakk-med-noen/

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