FBI seeks potential victims in Snapchat extortion case

The FBI is asking imaginable victims of Kaung Myat Kyaw to travel forward.

The Pennsylvania antheral was arrested successful November for allegedly enticing underage females to nonstop him sexually explicit videos and photos connected Snapchat.

The FBI believes Myah Kyaw utilized assorted usernames and methods to interaction the girls.

"Contact whitethorn person occurred by substance connection successful which the idiosyncratic would airs arsenic Snapchat enactment stating that the relationship was logged successful from an IP code that was not their own," the FBI said successful a statement. "The subjects would past inquire for login successful credentials oregon a reset password code, and successful immoderate instances, the PIN for the “My Eyes Only” folder. Once the accusation was received, the relationship would beryllium taken implicit and the photos would beryllium saved by the subject."

The FBI says victims whitethorn person besides been "catfished."

"The taxable would airs arsenic a bisexual female, property 14-16 years old, connected assorted friend-finding platforms," the FBI said. "The conversations would determination from the level to Snapchat, wherever nude images would beryllium exchanged."

The FBI says a abstracted relationship would interaction the idiosyncratic who shared the images and "extort the unfortunate by initiating the '7-Day Challenge.'"

The FBI said victims were threatened with the merchandise of their photos to household and friends unless they sent "increasingly demeaning intersexual photographs and videos for the adjacent 7 days."

Anyone who believes they whitethorn beryllium a unfortunate is encouraged to sojourn fbi.gov/7dc, wherever they volition beryllium prompted to implicit a questionnaire.