Crime & Safety

Tinley Park Man Feared Masturbation Video Would Be Shared on Social Media

A man and woman had shared sexual experiences via Skype, and the man told police the woman secretly recorded him.

A Tinley Park man told police a woman threatened to share a video of him masturbating if he didn’t pay up. The 23-year-old man told police he had been interacting via Skype with a woman who purportedly lived in Texas.

On Sept. 3, the two masturbated in front of each other. The woman then demanded that he give her money, or she would share on social media a video of him masturbating that she had secretly recorded, Chicago Tribune reports.

She then directed him to a website based in the Philippines, where he was instructed to enter his credit card information. After two failed attempts with different cards, he gave up and called police. Police told him to change his credit card info and cut off contact with the woman.

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