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Friend thinks she has been filmed having sex without her knowledge.

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Itsjustnotcricketisit · 09/10/2021 09:06

If it is true, isn’t it illegal ?
And if he showed the filming of it to other people? Isn’t that illegal too?

My friend was seeing this guy a while back, though nothing serious, it was just sex.

Excuse the details, but she told me this to see what I thought.

One night he was asking her to move round the bed a bit while being intimate, on top of the sheets.

She wondered at the time that something was ‘off’ as his wardrobe had a mirror on it, and if he used it to film it all, but as time passed, she pushed it to the back of her mind.

She is now happily engaged, wedding planned next year..

Recently though she had been very quiet. When I asked her what was wrong, she showed me a FB message that her relatives brother sent her.

When she opened it, he had written ‘Is this really you?’ with a video attached, but when she tried to play it, it had been blocked with a message about inappropriate content.

She is worried now that this video might be her and her ex having sex and that it has been passed around.

As it is blocked, she doesn’t know if it is or isn’t, so can’t ask questions to her relatives brother about it without raising suspicions.

She is honestly in a flap and is wondering whether to tell her partner in case it is. I have tried to reassure her that she has done nothing wrong. She was perfectly entitled to have a sexual relationship with someone in the confines of a bedroom, but she is in bits.

Has anybody else been in this situation? I’m trying to help her and somebody else’s experience/ perspective might hold the key.
Thank you.

OP posts:
Peridot1 · 09/10/2021 10:27

I had that message yesterday from a friend. Then she posted on FB not to open anything sent by her as it was a scam.

Itsjustnotcricketisit · 09/10/2021 10:42

Thank you all again.

Hopefully he never did film her, but I have contacted her with the scam news and she is beyond relieved 🙂.

We’ll never know for sure if he did or didn’t film her, but thanks to the power of Mumsnet, today is a day of relief and a beer or two later.

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LunaAndHerMoonDragons · 09/10/2021 11:15

@LubaLuca

‘Is this really you?’ with a video attached...

This is a hack/scam thing that does the rounds on social media. I received the message from a woman I worked with 25 years ago, and a cousin a few months later. Suffice to say, no it wasn't really me either time, although I obviously didn't open the videos.

Spam message, I got it sent from a friend. If you click on the video it sends it on to everyone in your contact list.
Itsjustnotcricketisit · 09/10/2021 11:58

I advised her to change her FB password too.
Scary how many scams are about. I had the DPD scam message yesterday saying I have a parcel and I need to pay for the delivery.

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Raychelle · 09/10/2021 15:06

She needs to change her Facebook password too now if she clicked it. It’s a hack.

Raychelle · 09/10/2021 15:07

@Itsjustnotcricketisit

I advised her to change her FB password too. Scary how many scams are about. I had the DPD scam message yesterday saying I have a parcel and I need to pay for the delivery.
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