Cenk Uygur
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“Sextortion” Of Sorority Girls Lands Government Employee In Jail
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March 27, 2016
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March 27, 2016
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6:50Now PlayingA State Department employee has been convicted extorting young women. He would have them send their personal information, and then use that information to scam nude photos from them. Cenk Uygur, Hannah Cranston (ThinkTank), and Hasan Piker (Pop Trigger) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“A former State Department employee will spend 57 months in prison for a “sextortion” cyberstalking crime that sounds like an SVU sweeps-week plot, only weirder and more awful.
While working in the US Embassy in London, administrative support worker Michael C. Ford passed time on the job by sending phishing emails to thousands of people. Once he tricked people (mostly college-aged women) into giving him their personal information, he’d try to blackmail them into sending him sexually explicit pictures.”
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