“Revenge porn” website gets Calif. man charged with extortion

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CBS/Associated Press

By/Crimesider Staff/ CBS/AP / December 11, 2013, 4: 49 PM
“Revenge porn” website gets Calif. man charged with extortion

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A San Diego man was charged Tuesday with operating a website that let people anonymously post explicit photographs of others so that he could extort hundreds of dollars from the victims.

Kevin Christopher Bollaert, 27, was arrested by California Department of Justice agents on 31 felony counts of conspiracy, identity theft and extortion.

Bollaert created the so-called "revenge porn" website ugotposted.com a year ago, according to court documents. The site let people anonymously post more than 10,000 nude and explicit photographs of others without their permission, investigators said.

Unlike most such sites, investigators said ugotposted.com required that the victim be identified by name, age and other information, leading to the identity theft allegations. He is charged with obtaining identifying information with the intent to annoy or harass.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/calif-man-charged-with-extortion-through-revenge-porn-website/

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

1. 31 felony counts!!??

Time for more snacks......................

[Skittles]

2. all extortion-type web sites need to be investigated

what they are going is WRONG

[penultimate]

3. Good. I don't see how anyone could defend people who facilitate this stuff...

Not to mention make money off of it.

The same goes for similar sites that are less porny too. A friend of mine was put on some site by a girl he dated. She wrote a 'review' type thing with his full name and picture. For all I know what she said could have very well have been true, but it just doesn't seem right that such things should be allowed. What's even more irritating is that they said they would remove it for a fee. There are sites that do that with arrest records too, and they do it in such a way that they go to the top of the search results.

[DURHAM D]

4. Thank you Attorney General Kamala Harris.

She will be President one day.

[cosmicone]

6. +1,000,000

If I was not supporting Hillary, I would support Kamala Harris for 2016 in a heartbeat.

However, she is going to be a successful California governor first.

[Auggie]

5. I want to see what creep defends the guy

[marble falls]

7. Sleeze ball requires serious jail time - 10 years serious.

[cstanleytech]

8. "extortion" I didnt realize being a douchebag on posting picks of people having sex with an ex was

extortion or was he running it so the people had to pay him money to remove said photos if they wanted them removed? If so then such a charge makes sense.

[Pretorius]

9. Monty Python did this long ago!