The number of people entrapped by this type of scam has been increasing exponentially. The folks behind that scam were actually based in Russia, SC Magazine reported, not NSA headquarters. You are then offered a sort of Hobson's choice: Pay a fine immediately, or face prosecution for downloading child pornography. You try to navigate away, but a warning screen branded by the National Security Administration's Internet Surveillance Program pops up with the message: "Your computer has been locked due to suspicion of illegal content downloading and distribution." Suddenly your computer screen fills with illegal pornographic images of minors. You're innocently surfing the Web, maybe on an unfamiliar site, not paying close attention. He was released on $10,000 bail and has been ordered to have no contact with the girls in the photos.Oct. (He was 17 at the time of the original offense.) But Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman has announced that he will be tried as an adult in criminal court. Last week, Berlin was arrested and charged with one count of transmission of sexually explicit images by a minor, a misdemeanor of the second degree. Investigators say he expressed remorse and a desire to apologize to the girls. According to the criminal complaint, Berlin later gave a voluntary statement to authorities and admitted to collecting and sharing the photos. Police say that when interviewed, the girls in the photos said they gave no authorization for the images to be shared. That folder was called “I prolly had ur pics.” And when investigators obtained a copy of Berlin’s senior yearbook, they realized that this was a direct copy of his quote in the yearbook.
They found a Dropbox account that appeared to be at the center of the scandal, and according to a criminal complaint filed in the case, that account contained Berlin’s high school research papers as well as a folder containing the nude photos of the underage girls. It took eight agencies to sort out the mess, and investigators eventually landed on Berlin as the prime suspect.
Of course, the photos aren’t ever really deleted, and it’s dirt-easy for anyone with half a brain - say a guy like Brandon Berlin - to hold onto your pictures for time immemorial. Police say that many of the photos appeared to be selfies that had originally been transmitted on SnapChat, the app that was supposed to delete anything you shared online within seconds, the idea being that you could share a nude selfie or other potentially compromising image with no fear of it coming back to haunt you at a later date, when you’re older and realize that it was probably stupid to share nude selfies on the Internet.
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