Accounts with adult content, whose photos have been stolen and which lead only to the theft of personal data: this is the new scam denounced by the participatory site Signal-Arnaques.
The “e-whoring” consists of stealing photos of women, to attract potential victims of scams. A scam that therefore has two victims: the person whose photos and identity have been usurped, and the Internet user who takes the bait.
Twitter blue for visibility
To lure victims, fakers use Twitter’s blue badge in particular, giving a sense of “authenticity” (despite all the trouble it’s caused recently), but mainly because Twitter’s algorithm favors paid accounts, highlighting so in the user news.
The accounts in question will also post comments on tweets with high visibility. It was a Twitter user, Kidboubou, who warned of this practice.
To carry out the scam, the scammers use authentic photos of young women, typically when they stream content on Twitch in outfits that are sometimes perceived as suggestive. They put links on your profile that claim to lead to OnlyFans or other networks that allow adult content. With the promise of obtaining erotic or pornographic shots, which in reality do not exist.
In fact, several streamers have warned their subscribers that people impersonating them have opened accounts on platforms. as OnlyFansMYM or Fansly.
Seckooh, a streamer with more than 26,000 followers on Twitch and 24,000 on Twitter, was among the victims. An individual would have opened a Fansly account in his name, backed up with stolen photos.
The same story for the streamer Alvaena, 34,000 subscribers on Twitch, who says she has “neither OnlyFans nor MYM”, and denounces the existence of these accounts that do not belong to her but that usurp her identity.
Furthermore, according to Signal-Arnaques, clicking the link does not actually lead to an account hosted on these adult platforms: they are phishing sites, aimed at retrieving victims’ bank details.
The practice is not new, the British magazine cosmopolitan UK had also investigated this phenomenon in 2021. For several years, scammers have been using OnlyFans or MYM accounts to usurp stolen photos, often of young women. However, in the past, scammers simply asked for money in exchange for photos.
Source: BFM TV
