A 22-year-old Alabama man pleaded responsible to extortion, cyberstalking, and laptop fraud expenses after hijacking the social media accounts of a whole bunch of younger ladies (together with minors).
Between April 2022 and Could 2025, Jamarcus Mosley impersonated the targets’ mates and used different ways to trick his victims into handing over account restoration codes and passwords. Mosley then used the stolen credentials to take management of their Snapchat, Instagram, and different social media accounts.
After taking up their accounts, he threatened to publicly launch their non-public nude pictures and movies or lock them out of their accounts until victims complied along with his calls for, which included surrendering full entry to extra accounts, sending him sexually specific content material, or paying him varied sums of cash.
“Mosley is the damaging on-line stranger who each dad or mum fears. By exploiting the belief of teenagers and younger adults, Mosley hacked into their accounts to steal intimate and sexually suggestive pictures and extort them over a three-year interval,” mentioned U.S. Lawyer Theodore S. Hertzberg.
“This merciless, calculated scheme is the newest reminder that everybody should train nice care with whom they work together on-line.”
Prosecutors additionally described a number of particular cases, together with one case the place Mosley impersonated a highschool good friend of a 20-year-old Georgia lady and persuaded her to share her Snapchat restoration code. He then hijacked her account, accessed her non-public pictures, and despatched her a threatening message, saying that “I obtained 65 movies and [a] image of you about to get posted.”
In one other incident, when an 18-year-old Florida lady refused his calls for to ship extra nude pictures, Mosley adopted by on his threats and posted her stolen non-public pictures on-line. Later, Mosley additionally used a 17-year-old Illinois sufferer’s hacked account to contact the Florida lady’s 13-year-old sister, sending a Snapchat map picture to indicate he knew the place she lived.
Mosley is scheduled to be sentenced earlier than U.S. District Decide Michael L. Brown on Could 27.
Earlier this month, 26-year-old Kyle Svara from Illinois additionally pleaded responsible to hacking almost 600 ladies’s Snapchat accounts utilizing social engineering to steal non-public nude pictures that he later bought or traded on-line.
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