Internet crimes often take a devastating toll on the victims. Strangers can now access others' personal lives to harass, violate, and even physically attack them. Once this type of crime occurs, it's nearly impossible to get justice -- or relief.
Cece bonds with a man she meets on a dating app. He soon asks for her money for his business, and she happily obliges. Cece ignores red flags because she wants the story to be true, but instead, she becomes yet another victim of a romance scam.
In 2018, a fourteen-year-old boy named John Aubrey Peal III from Mississippi uses a popular 'voice and text chat' app for gamers, hoping to find others interested in gaming. He strikes up an online friendship with a man named Jason, who claims he is suicidal. Concerned, Aubrey agrees to meet Jason, not realizing Jason's evil intentions.
Online cult leader Sherry Shriner reaches her followers through YouTube videos and keeps them in line via her Facebook page; when a group member dies in a tragic shooting, attention turns to Sherry and the control she wields over her followers.
Chrissy Chambers and her girlfriend, Bria Kam, are huge YouTube personalities in the lesbian world. Then Chrissy's old flame, a man, starts a devastating revenge porn campaign, spreading videos of him having sex with her while she's unconscious.
Andy Castillo uses the internet to call and text female realtors in 20 different states. Wielding their social media against them, he makes the women believe he's lurking nearby, adding to their terror. But they have no idea what else he's done.
Internet crimes often take a devastating toll on the victims. Strangers can now access others' personal lives to harass, violate, and even physically attack them. Once this type of crime occurs, it's nearly impossible to get justice -- or relief.
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