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Escort website users blackmailed via instant messaging app used by Valencia gang in Spain

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Man from Mallorca sentenced to 14 years for blackmail scheme to extort naked pictures from teenage girls in Spain

Walter Finch - 12 Jan, 2023 @ 17:15

A Mallorcan man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for blackmailing six teenage girls into sending him naked pictures. The 22-year-old approached a...

Costa Blanca

Blackmailers on Spain’s Costa Blanca extort €200,000 from escort website users

Alex Trelinski - 30 Dec, 2022 @ 17:15

A blackmail gang has been arrested in Alicante and Valencia after pocketing over €200,000 by threatening users of an escort website. Six people have been...

Valencia

Valencia-based sextortion gang gets busted by police in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 9 Sep, 2022 @ 13:02

A Valencia-based sextortion gang that netted €104,000 from users of an escort site has been brought down by the Guardia Civil. The ringleader was arrested...

Valencia

Police in Spain’s Valencia arrest blackmailers extorting men who booked escorts

Alex Trelinski - 17 Jun, 2022 @ 12:14

THE Guardia Civil in Valencia has brought down a blackmail gang targetting men who cancelled appointments with escorts. Five Spanish nationals- four men and a...

Couple accused of buying young boy as mother in Spain's Madrid says husband ordered sale to distant relatives

Costa Blanca

Teenage prankster in hot water after making €15,000 ransom demand for hostage release on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 7 Mar, 2022 @ 15:38

A Denia teenager, 16, demanded a €15,000 ransom from the parents of a soccer teammate that he threatened to kill if he did not...

Alicante

Alicante boy uses female social media profiles in sex blackmail plot in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 17 Jan, 2022 @ 14:00

AN Alicante area teenage boy has been arrested by the Policia Nacional over online sextortion. The boy, 17, from Alcoy used eight bogus social media...

Costa Blanca

Sextortionist blackmails Costa Blanca teenager on dating website in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 10 Jan, 2022 @ 18:36

A San Juan de Alicante man, 43, has been arrested for blackmailing an Alicante Province woman on a dating website. The man forwarded private material...

Valencia

Escort website users blackmailed via instant messaging app used by Valencia gang in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 8 Dec, 2021 @ 15:00

A Valencia-based gang made €150,000 in a year by blackmailing users of escort websites. The crew ironically pretended to be members of a criminal organisation...

Police Rescue Trafficked Woman Who Bravely Phoned Them From Valencia Bound In Spain

Crime & Law

Police rescue woman forced into prostitution who phoned them from Valencia-bound coach in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 3 Nov, 2021 @ 15:56

POLICE boarded a coach that arrived at Valencia bus station from Sevilla to rescue a victim of human trafficking. A Columbian man, 33, has been...

Bogus Pimps And Prostitute Extorted Money With Violent Threats Against 'clients' Across Spain

Crime & Law

Bogus prostitution gang made violent threats to extort cash from ‘clients’ across Spain

Alex Trelinski - 11 Aug, 2021 @ 18:30

THREE blackmailers have been arrested for extorting money out of people who thought they had arranged a hook-up with a prostitute. The meetings never happened...

Alicante

Angry wife sets up blackmail plot against cheating husband on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 23 Sep, 2020 @ 21:01

A WOMAN was arrested on the Costa Blanca for setting up a blackmail plot involving sex photos of her husband. Two other people were roped...

National News

Gerard Pique and Shakira allegedly blackmailed over sex tape

Rob Horgan - 27 Nov, 2015 @ 13:35

Ex-employee blackmails pop star over racy film with her Barca husband

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