Porn Blackmail in Sweden



(Blekinge, Sweden)

A Swedish company with a dubious past has sent out invoices to thousands of Swedes demanding payment for allegedly visiting pornographic websites.

Police in Blekinge, south Sweden, have received over 3,000 reports about the company's fake porn surfing bills from people around the country.

The invoices threaten to expose the recipients as porn surfers if they don't pay.

The company behind the invoices in on the warning list of the Swedish Trade Federation (Svensk Handels).

"This is a form of blackmail. They send an SMS to them claiming they've been porn surfing and write something like 'if you don't pay we're going to expose you as a porn surfer on our website'," Per Geijer, head of security at the trade federation, told the TT news agency.

Apparently the scam works as demonstrated by one reported example where Swedes paid "millions into fraudsters' accounts."