Courtesy of our affiliates at Texas Voices, we are learning of a new scam targeting persons on the registry.
People are receiving letters in the mail with no return address, but personalized to them. The letter demands payment of money via bitcoin or they will notify all their neighbors of their status, their employers, their family members’ associates, church congregation, etc.
Read the details on the Florida Action Committee website
Wonder what Chuck Broderick is doing these days? Yes Broderick, as he changed this name which made him harder to find in Search engine queries thanks to someone else sharing same name in the Phoenix area.
Hmmm….
I cant wait for a letter like this to come my way. It could help me nail the bastard once and for all. Wording and language structure sounds similar to his.
Too bad for him i live in my van, traveling now unreachable.
So criminal organizations are using the registry to get a list of potential victims for their extortion crimes, as well, many other groups and people are using this registry for everything from legal solicitations, to violent attacks, you know, just like they do with Price Club members. All of these incidents are criminal acts, what is going to be done about it? Or are all the politicians and law enforcement going to turn a blind eye, oh, wait, isn’t that accessory to a crime?
Got the same thing while living in Nevada, which just changed their RSO laws so that some of us can never get off of the registry – The possibility of getting off the registry is why I moved there in the first place. I now live back in California and after 33 years of registering I look forward to getting removed from it next year!
To me this only helps strengthen the case against a public registry. The more misuse of it right now the better. We have a lot of positive things going on right now in the courts and stuff like this only strengthens our claims.
The gov use of the electronic lists is rapidly expanding. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-making-animal-cruelty-federal/story?id=66788673&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_headlines_hed
Scams come from selfish people, to lazy to work. Robot calls widen the scope of potential victims. An inherent problem with use of the machines is potential misuse. SOR cracked open a door. Children’s best interest the ‘ presumed rational’ but collateral implications abound in plethora with respect to “deep state use” of the electronic database. Given that certain parties lobbied for sec 230 US CODE relieving themselves of highly likely tort outcomes through traditionally recognized ” rent seeking” behaviour a quid pro quo collusion comes into focus.
I do realize most if not all on this site are aware of the scams out there. Before I was ignorant and many people still are. How do we inform those of us before they decide to research?
Sort of related: my mother was contacted by a much younger man she “met” on social media and sent him some money ($500 I think, that’s a lot as she is on social security). My sister (she had the same access to mom’s social media) and I had a chat with our mom and it stopped.
I’m just saying, people are vulnerable and ignorant (for various reasons (love for one)) until they get led back to reality.
The first clue (among others) was the letter…. no LE will send a letter; they will show up your door in force.
We may be low hanging fruit, but most of us wouldn’t have the funds to comply. And the extortionist is not very bright if he thinks BitCoin’s is anonymous. The government has often followed the path of BitCoin’s to find a criminal’s identification.
Do Not give out money too anyone who call or send a letter! Tell them you will meet them at the cop shop if they want money so you can get a record of payment.100% the con will not show up problem fixed. If the con call back tell them you are recording this phone call! Have a great night The Vampire is out
@Will Allen
That’s a given. They just don’t have the balls to admit that the Registry is punitive in front of the public.
Or admit their hypocrisy. Just ask Anthony Weiner. He use to complain about sex offenders all the time living in his district:
https://nypost.com/2019/05/27/anthony-weiner-complained-about-sex-offenders-in-district-before-scandal/
Extortion is extortion, and it doesn’t matter enough if it is children who were played or if the target is an adult with a criminal record, like at mugshots.com. The solution then is possibly built into the California Penal Code in the section regarding record review. Check this:
PC 11125 No person or agency shall require or request another person to furnish a copy of a record or notification that a record exists or does not exist, as provided in Section 11124. A violation of this section is a misdemeanor.(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1227, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1993.)
mugshots.com and other extortion sites like it require proof of a record expungement or seal before unpublishing mug shots and criminal history it published on the web. That is a misdemeanor. The burden of proof is on mugshots to prove it lawfully requests records while avoiding a misdemeanor charge under PC 11125.
Has anyone fought this through the courts? There are over 70 million people with criminal records in the US, 8 million in California itself. Why is the fight against mugshot.com etc. so weak?