Facebook Nudie-Pic Scam
Brooklyn Student Accused of Facebook.com Coed Nudie-Pic Scam:
NEW YORK � A 20-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., man has been using the popular college-community Web site Facebook.com to con and extort coeds around the country, forcing them to turn over nude pictures of themselves and give him online companionship, officials said.
“Students think that because they’re on a secure Web site like Facebook that they’re safe from online predators,” Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said. “They’re not.”
Elvin Chaung is proof of that, the DA said � an alleged cyber-sicko who got over 50 women to send him nude photos and videos by posing online as one of their girlfriends. Investigators believe he tried the scam on hundreds of college students around the country.
“He was using identity theft and extortion to get naked pictures of 18- and 19-year-old women,” said prosecutor Aaron Karczmer.
Most of Chaung’s victims were his schoolmates at Hunter College in Manhattan, but he also worked his manipulative magic on naive teens at over two dozen other colleges and universities, including Columbia University, Karczmer said.
Sometimes the pictures weren’t enough. On one occasion, he instant messaged a victim who realized she’d been conned into sending him racy pictures and threatened to humiliate her unless she continued “talking” to him, Karczmer said.
“As of now, I haven’t done anything with them. Don’t make me change my mind. I just want to chat … I want to get to know u more. Ur hotttt,” Chaung � or “OneSweeetgurlie” � wrote in one exchange, court records show.
If “I were to lose contact wit u I mite want to send the pics all over the internet. As long as we can chat and be friends the pics are safe.”
Chaung, who lives with his parents in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, declined to comment. He’s free on bail after being arrested and charged with identity theft, computer trespass and tampering, coercion and grand larceny.
I don’t have a Facebook account so I couldn’t find his Facebook. However I did find his MySpace here.
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4 opinions for Facebook Nudie-Pic Scam
jade
Jun 19, 2006 at 8:08 pm
well doesn’t he appear to be a sad, pathetic excuse of a human being? “lives with his parents”…well color me shocked [/sarcasm]
soobs
Jun 19, 2006 at 11:47 pm
“an alleged cyber-sicko who got over 50 women to send him nude photos and videos by posing online as one of their girlfriends”
Color me stupid, but girls were sending nude photos and videos thinking they were going to their GIRLFRIEND’S? I’ve had close girlfriends, but none I’d send a naked picture to.
stupid
Jun 22, 2006 at 5:41 pm
this guy definitely has a problem making friends.
Kevin
Jul 29, 2006 at 6:20 pm
why did’nt he just look at porn on the internet?