PNP Alarms Students Against “Sextortionists”

Manila, Philippines – Classes started, and Philippine National Police is once again calling the public to help them catch “sextortionist” syndicate that targets students who are active users of the social media.

PNP’s head of Anti-Cybercrime group, Senior Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar, made operation Strikeback 3 available again for them to catch these syndicates.

“We are very much aware of the possibility that young students may end up victims of ‘sextortion’ in the country with the opening of regular classes this month since during the summer period, we made at least three sextortion-related arrests with students as victims,” he said.

Sextortionist records the sexual acts of the students or whoever their victim is, then they threat these people that they will upload their video if they will not give money.

Two weeks ago, Eleazar stressed that ACG operatives stormed an international sextortion ring based in Olongapo City where 28 people were arrested who sold pornographic materials and website links to clients outside the country then later on duped them into exposing themselves in front of webcams.

Eleazar asked the parents of the students to have a time to time direct talk with their children, a solution so that they won’t fall into the syndicate’s trap.

Eleazar made the case of celebrity couple Anthony and Maricel Pangilinan as an example. The couple cooperated with the ACG in catching a 19 year old college student who made fake Facebook accounts of the couple and their own children in order to ask money.