Urgent! Getting spammed by dodgy deep web... please help?

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, I really hope one of you can help answer my question! Thank you so much for taking the time.

Somehow a dodgy company has gotten hold of my phone number (or just selected it at random) and I am receiving several whatsapp phone calls and video calls a day from numbers I don't recognise. I am also getting hundreds of messages every day and added into random groups, usually named like this 'real deep web p0rn' etc. Often they send me videos of a young man or woman do not know stripping off completely naked. Homemade p0rn and sometimes older men masturbating.

I'm extremely confused because I am very cautious with giving out personal details, and I'm starting to find this pestering online extremely scary. I'm getting offers to organise my own sexual kidnapping and I was told to send a picture with words written on my thigh to receive videos.

Initially I was texting these people back and telling them they had the wrong person until I realised this must be some sort of organisation.

Does anyone have any prior knowledge of an experience such as this and how should I handle it? This is really no joking matter, and I really want to cut off all contact, but the number of times they contact me daily for multiple different numbers is quite alarming and increasing. I really felt I could only turn to G@G. Thanks so much for reading, please give me advice.

[Eagle_93]

Honestly, the only way at this point for it to completely stop is to change your phone number, and create a new whatsapp account (or better yet, completely get rid of whatsapp... more on that later).

As a guy familiar with hacking and the tech industry, one of the first things I'd do is uninstall whatsapp.

If you're not familiar with it, whatsapp has had numerous (by that I mean a TON) of security breaches and flaws in it in the past, that could be able/have been exploited for nefarious purposes.

A friend of mine kept asking me to contact them on whatsapp, and every time I politely told them I didn't have it.

Well we were talking on the phone the other day, and he brought it up again, so this time I finally explained the reason I didn't have whatapp, and why I would never have whatsapp.

Simply because I don't feep safe on it because of all the security breaches in its history.


I hope you can fix this annoying problem, and please stay safe because if it is actually a hacker from the web, it's possible that have already gotten more info on you than just your phone number, and they could know where you live too.

In fact, it may actually be a good idea to talk to law enforcement about it and show them the threatening messages.
Sometimes they can track the perpetrator down.

Getting your info stolen, and having threats made against you in a sexual manner is a crime.

I hope you get it worked out.

[Asker]

Thank you so much for your advice. I'm positive it's someone who is stalking me on numerous social media websites, including this one, as this is the only place where I call myself sage valentine, not my real name. They have many photos of my face.

[Eagle_93]

Oooh yeah, that's not good. I hope they don't have any nefarious intentions behind it and maybe are just doing it for a mean prank.

[Asker]

I hope it's a prank too. Is it alright if I come back to you when the situation progresses? You're the person who is most knowledgeable on this topic.

[Eagle_93]

@sagevalentineee Well I don't know about me being the most knowledgeable, but I would gladly lend help however I can. Let me know if you have any more questions and I will try to get the answer. (Also, I think we follow each other here so if you need to dm me if it escalates, that's cool too. Just don't allow something to progress to where it gets out of hand).

[Asker]

Thank you! I just want to know what it is this person wants. So far I have found out their numbers are from Pakistan.

[Eagle_93]

That doesn't mean anything. It is super easy to show a number or for that matter, any IP address as being from anywhere in the world. In fact I run a VPN on my phone and computer (VPN stands for Virtual Private Network... I can explain it in more detail if you are interested in learning about it) and I can make it look like I'm literally from almost anywhere in the world... one minute I can "be" from the States, another minute I can "be" from the UK, the next minute I can "be" from Austrailia. It's actually pretty easy to do so.

[Soteris]

The fact that its so aimed at harassing you probably means that was the original intention in the first place, to expose you to harassment and destroy your quiet life. That does not mean that the contacts you are getting is not malicious though. My suggestion is to perhaps contact the police and change your phone number.

[svxgroup]

oh common... not everything from the deep web means something bad

[Soteris]

@svxgroup In this case, yes it does.

[svxgroup]

nope. bc thats not exactly what happened, she's adding lies and tryin to defame the group. she might get in trouble for that

[Soteris]

@svxgroup As someone who has actually explored the dark web those things definitely happen there.

[svxgroup]

her stuff is almost about to be on deep web, photoshopped;. soon it will be on gag n everywhere

[Soteris]

@svxgroup So.. she was right?

[svxgroup]

10% maybe svx is a good group

[svxgroup]

dont worry honey, SVX Group never leaks privacy of their clients, unless you violate their SOPs, (which you are about to).
contact admin in this regard.
THE SOONER, THE BETTER.

[svxgroup]

ahh... my boss is compelling me to leak her stuff here... i don't but this dumb piece of meat is making my life more difficult (i just hate my job)

[AustinMan]

Contact the local authorities. That sounds illegal, like stalking.

[svxgroup]

dude its not stalking

[AustinMan]

@svxgroup Oh but he is.

[SlothySlob]

Have you been playing around with the deep web even?
Where all is your phone number publicly shown?
Do you work or publish pictures of yourself online? Sexual in nature or not.

[es20490446e]

Only allow calls from contacts:
play.google.com/.../details

[genericname85]

yeah this is why you're supposed to be very careful with your phone number. the only fix i see for this is asking your service provider if you can get a new number...

[Tomsta]

Contact your mobile network provider. They might be able to do something

[COMMODOREII]

That sucks. I know in the united states you can put your number on the no call registry to stop getting calls. The only thing i could think of is calling your cell provider and tell them you are being harassed and see if they will change your phone number for you. Good luck.

[svxgroup]

hey we dont harass okay?

[COMMODOREII]

@svxgroup who are the "we" you are talking about?

[Bshu2jdbxb]

Block the numbers
And uninstall your whatsapp for one day

[Iamanintrovert]

you won't get spammed unless you involve in it.

[Anonymous]

maybe they're just trying to find more pictures of you that show more than your face