Mexican authorities dismantle extortion network

The Office of the Attorney General and the Federal Police, as ell as the Attorney General of the state of Yucatán and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dismantled an extortion network centered on a porno website targeting women, children and their parents.

The www.yucatercos.org website was created in 2014 and operated in the states of Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.

One of the victims denounced the site in the city of Mérida, Yucatán, explaining that she exchanged nude pictures with her boyfriend and some time later she was being harassed in school and on social networks.

It turned out that her nudes were published on said website and she requested the operators to remove them, but she received an automatic response asking for around US$110 in order to do so.

Minutes later, she received a personal email on which her interlocutor, in a very humiliating way, demanded a higher amount of money, or he would make sure that her family would get the nude pictures.

Initially, the victim tried to conceal the situation to her parents, but ended calling for the intervention of the authorities along them.

Shortly afterwards, other victims presented more denounces against the page operators.

The site has been disabled and two people have been arrested.