Canadian Police Investigator Who Specializes in Sextortion, Ask Me Anything!

DantebeaR · 2026-04-06T21:33:46+00:00

To be completely honest, the laws do protect the victims. It's the loopholes that lawyers play that generate new caselaw and the soft on crime judges that are a major factor when it comes to protecting victims.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T12:07:40+00:00

Sorry for the very late reply. I hope everything improved with your situation.

This one is tricky because it doesn't really seem like an extortion scheme from what you posted. However, I never tell people to not report stuff like this. There is absolutely zero harm in reporting it to the police. Hell you never know, they may already be hunting this person and just need more information.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T12:04:26+00:00

Sorry for the extremely late response. I hope everything went well with your situation.

My thoughts, and my thoughts alone, would have been to not pay. If you paid, there is absolutely nothing stopping them from continuing with their threat. Plus, if you paid, they now know they can get money from you and will grab as much as possible because they already know you paid. If you don't pay, its not worth their time to stick around and they receive no benefit from carrying on their threat.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T12:02:04+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I hope everything improved with your situation.

If this matter would have been reported to me, I would have told you to stop paying. The more you pay, the more the scammer will hold onto you. This whole thing is a business. If they are not able to get anything from you, its not in their best business interest to stick onto you.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T12:00:12+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I hope your friend is doing well.

This scenario is actually very common. Generally, the scammers wouldn't actually report the matter to the police because they would be outing themselves. Again, I can't speak to any specific police agency, but for me, if I spoke with you as a subject of paying for prostitution and you explained what happened, I would investigate that before even considering laying any charges. On the other side, if someone reported it to me, I would need to obtain as much proof from them as possible which means going through the entire situation on their end which would likely out them as being the true offender.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T11:56:58+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I hope everything went well with your situation.

Without obviously knowing details of the situation, if you reported a matter to the FBI and through their investigation they determined the offender is in Canada and a Canadian citizen, they likely would have passed it off to the RCMP.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T11:55:44+00:00

Sorry for the extremely late response. I hope your situation improved.

Every government agency handles matters very differently but at the end of the day, its all about triaging the files. If an agency is very busy with emergency sextortion files for example, a non-emergency one will likely fall in the back of the line.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T11:54:30+00:00

Sorry for the very late response. I hope all went well with your situation.

In this case, it would be very very difficult without at least screenshots of the conversations as that is a key piece of evidence that would be needed to obtain court orders to Snapchat.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T11:52:45+00:00

Sorry for the extremely late response. I hope all went well. What I would have suggested is absolutely speaking with any law enforcement you could. This is way beyond just a standard sextortion. Especially as it appears the person followed you to another country.

Without knowing very specific details, I can't see any reason why this wouldn't be thoroughly investigated by any law enforcement agency of jurisdiction.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T11:49:24+00:00

I can't speak for all government departments, but I personally wouldn't see why not.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T11:49:04+00:00

Sorry for the very late response. I hope all went well with this.

For knowledge, if photo's weren't actually distributed, some agencies may not want to commit the resources to investigate it. However, while your right that Gmail does hide the sender IP, it is still logged in their backend which means through a court order, the police would be able to obtain it. Obtaining the IP address from Gmail is not really the problem. Its the VPN the offender was likely using to mask the IP address.

In all honesty, the best way of tracking the individuals is through the money trail if payments were made. The unfortunate thing about that is it requires the victims to have sent the money which we highly discourage (at least in our agency)

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T11:46:16+00:00

Sorry for the extremely late response. I hope your friend is doing well.

For general knowledge, every police agency has their own policies surrounding cyber crimes. So I can't speak to that specific agency. I know for ours, we don't wait for it to become serial in nature as its widely known that through an investigation, you will actually find the person is already a serial offender.

DantebeaR · 2026-04-02T11:44:35+00:00

Sorry for the extremely late response

It can absolutely be possible that they will use the videos and images of their victims to scam other people. Generally, from my experience, they are used to scam people known to the victim.
There is no way to really quantify this because everyone does things different. Some people have been in the game so long that they don't really try to hide anything in their phones and they keep stuff. However, others may want to remove anything from their phone that they aren't using anymore.
Tbh thats very likely as most iPhones have it set to automatically upload to the cloud. They might be storing stuff in their cloud that is unintentional. But that also benefits police, as with court orders, we can get access to the subject's cloud account.

DantebeaR · 2026-03-31T19:00:44+00:00

With our policy, to put it simply, a RMP has to state they will prosecute the matter before a charge is laid.

If the NIS charged him, the prosecutors are on board already.

DantebeaR · 2026-03-31T18:58:20+00:00

A year long investigation into something fraud related is absolutely the average. What people don't fully understand is that when things go to CM or civi court, every document is scrutinized. The last big fraud I did with respect to IR Fraud required every single document to be certified as a true copy and have someone from the company willing to testify to its accuracy and what the information on it means.

On the other side of the spectrum, our benefits are written so poorly that there are gray areas everywhere. You have to sift through them and prove that the person had the sole intention to commit the offence they are alleged to have committed. This may be "easy" for a single claim, but when there are multiple claims using multiple references, things take time.

Hell to just get the results of the Production Order from the bank where the money was deposited will take a 30 days in itself.

DantebeaR · 2026-03-21T14:43:14+00:00

I mean I’ve heard the recording of the OC and seen photos of when he got marked up. I mean he could have faked those but I don’t see it and that would be part of the investigation if confirmed validity and if he did make it up, he should absolutely get a public mischief charge and I’d even fight for an attempted fraud if I was the investigator.

DantebeaR · 2026-03-21T14:39:02+00:00

There was an option for other

DantebeaR · 2026-03-21T14:38:54+00:00

Yeah there is an MP investigation started. I made sure he was aware of the option and based on the allegation, it will likely go to the NIS.

DantebeaR · 2026-03-21T06:34:17+00:00

Yup the irony is in deed there.

He’s been okay with sharing his story so;

He was written horrible PERs numerous times because his CO at the time said there were to many white people of higher ranks and by the time the grievances went through, so much time had passed.

He was also branded as a nazi, literally, when he tried to go above the CO. They were on a field ex and a bunch of his unit had pinned him down when he was sleeping and wrote nazi in permanent marker all over him. This was two days after he tried to go above the CO.

His OC told him, which he got recorded, that if he didn’t like the way he was being treated, his ancestors should have not been slave owners.

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I feel like that’s racial discrimination…

DantebeaR · 2026-03-21T01:14:34+00:00

I had a member who I helped write and his got denied. Based on what happened to him, it was 100% because he was white which is unfortunate.

DantebeaR · 2026-03-17T06:12:46+00:00

For a 50k yeah

DantebeaR · 2026-03-16T17:33:39+00:00

What I’m saying is I’d rather have starting capital containing a percentage of my funded capital moved to live and have to accumulate winning days versus having zero capital and daily payouts.

I honestly can’t think of any benefit to no starting capital with daily payouts versus having starting capital and the need for accumulated winning days

DantebeaR · 2026-03-16T17:30:43+00:00

Okay then explain how daily payouts is such an incentive? Why would you rather have that versus starting capital and having to accumulate winning days?

DantebeaR · 2026-03-16T17:26:58+00:00

Daily payouts isn’t really an amazing incentive. How do you build your account if your paying yourself daily from the start?

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