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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Cape Town \u2013 A Strandfontein dad is furious after his social media accounts were hacked by a blackmailer who has threatened to share his naked pictures unless he pays R3 000.<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old man, who asked not to be named, says the hacker even created fake newspaper articles and threatened to publish pictures of his penis, but he refuses to be extorted.<\/p>\n

The distraught man says he sent the sexy pictures to his wife when he was separated from her for over a month, but now he is being unfairly labelled as an abuser by the hacker.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been married for 30 years and we are still mal vir mekaar (crazy for each other),\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all started in December when I got a work contract and had to be away from home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even get to see my wife on Christmas and so we had intimate conversations and sent each other some pictures of which some were nudes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just really missing my wife and this was our way of staying connected while I was away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dad says last Thursday he got a fright when he got a WhatsApp message from a random number demanding airtime.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know who the person was and they pretended to be a woman and demanded airtime and I was like what the hell, so I blocked the number.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen another number started messaging me and started making threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man says he was left dumbstruck when the blackmailer sent him the same pictures he had sent his wife, as well as screengrabs from his Facebook profile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked and confused because I don\u2019t know how they hacked my accounts and my phone,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe person sent me newspaper articles and told me they were going to expose me if I don\u2019t pay them R3 000 and when I told them I don\u2019t have money, they even told me to make payment arrangements and gave me an FNB account number.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went to Strandfontein Police Station to report the extortion, but says he was told the matter would have to be investigated by the Cybercrimes Unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was there on Saturday and was referred to a sergeant, who told me they have to speak to the station commander about how to handle the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went back on Monday but the sergeant was leaving the station and I asked that he call me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so horrified and feel so violated that I have deleted all my social media profiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were intimate pictures for my wife and it is just our way of being loving. We are very much ougat and kinky.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2018, a Milnerton man told the Daily Voice he was also the victim of a female scammer who demanded R5 000 or she would publish pictures of his penis on social media and in a tabloid newspaper.<\/p>\n

Daily Voice<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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