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Sextortion: pay or the images go to your contacts

A fake profile starts an intimate chat and gets images. Then comes the threat: pay or the images go to your contacts. Paying does not stop the threat. Ask SaferNet for help.

Also called: sextortion, nude scam.

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requests for help with exposed intimate images to SaferNet's helpline, the most common topic of the year

2024 · Source: SaferNet Brasil

How it works

  1. An attractive profile starts a chat on social media or a dating app and steers it to intimacy.
  2. They record the call or keep the images, or only pretend to have them.
  3. They threaten to send them to family and friends unless you pay. Sometimes they say they were a minor.

Where it usually starts: dating app, social media, messaging app.

How it arrives on Bipe. Simulation with sample people and messages.

How to spot it

  • The chat got intimate very fast.
  • The person asked to switch apps early on.
  • After the first payment, another demand comes.

What to do

  • Do not pay. Paying does not stop the threat.
  • Keep the evidence, block and report the profile.
  • Ask SaferNet's helpline for help and file a police report.

How Bipe helps

Each item shows where it stands on iPhone and Android.

Message requests

People who are not in your contacts arrive as a request. A message from a new number does not land straight in your chat list.

iPhone: In the test app · Android: In development

Scam warnings

A warning shows under a message that looks like a scam, such as a rushed Pix, a new number or a boleto. It is on by default, with nothing to set up.

iPhone: In the test app · Android: In development

What Bipe does not solve here

The warning points to SaferNet when a message makes a threat and asks for money. The threat can come from another app, where the images were shared.

Bipe only protects the chats that happen in Bipe. If someone in the family still uses another app, a scammer can write to them there.

Who describes this scam

Official pages with the scam's script and what to do.

Other common scams

Scams in Brazil in numbers

Where these numbers come from

Researched on 13 October 2026. We only use numbers that have a source. Surveys by a company or a private association are marked as such.