Accessible through the mobile messaging program Telegram, only paying members could enter the secret chat rooms and watch videos of women being sexually abused and harassed. According to the sources, most male users in Korea tried to enter the Nth rooms. It is estimated that at least 74 people were affected in this incident, which has terrible details.
Users nicknamed “GodGod” and “Baksa”, who tricked young girls and women into traps on social media platforms, perhaps committed one of the biggest cybercrimes in the history of the internet.
The criminal, nicknamed GodGod, who initially caught his eye on his victims, mostly targeted high school students.
On the X (Twitter) platform, “Your private photos have gone online!” he was sending a trap message. Afterwards, the victims, who saw the message, were curious and when they looked at it, they noticed that there was a link and clicked it.
As soon as they clicked on the link, their personal information and photos were in the hands of the criminal, threatening to spread the photos. The victims were naturally stressed and often wanted to come to terms with the criminal named GodGod.
He asked the victims to take more “open” photos and gave 10 seconds.
Victims began to do everything the criminal said, fearing that their private photos would be spread. Always wanting more, GodGod was posting photos of victims in Telegram groups and making fun of them. He called them slaves and punished them if they did not comply with their wishes.
The criminal, who constantly asked for photos, deceived young girls by saying, “If you take this photo, I will delete the others”, if they do not accept, “I will spread all the photos you have sent before,” and presented all the photos in his hand as a threat to the victims.
Some of his requests were blood-curdling: He even asked the victims to write “Slave” on their arms with a needle and thread!
Let’s say in advance that you may be triggered by the article you are about to read. The criminal, who trapped two children aged between 10 and 11, asked both middle school students to lick the toilet tiles and floors, and then shoot a video. This criminal, who constantly expects a smiling face from his victims in the photos, continued to share the images in the Telegram group.
By creating its own subordinate system, it also encouraged many Telegram users to commit sexual abuse, allowing other users to share photos of other victims.
They had detailed information about each victim.
When you tried to enter these rooms, the person nicknamed the Watchman greeted you as the person who promoted and spread the Nth rooms. When you entered the room secretly, it seemed that the victims were listed from 1 to 8 and their personal information was detailed.
In this information; His age, height, body shapes, where he lived, what grade he was in, which school he attended, even his branch were included. The fact that they had such detailed information was the most important proof that the victims had almost all of their personal information. In fact, they spread all the information of South Korean journalist Kim Wan, who published an article about these rooms, on the internet, on the grounds that he had exposed his deceptions. Where they got this information is still unknown.
These photos and videos are thought to have been sold to around 260,000 people!
The criminal, nicknamed Baksa, was the main operator of one of the Telegram groups we call the Nth rooms. It continued to sell videos and photos of victims through member-exclusive Bestcoin, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. If we consider the current value of Bitcoin, they have made a significant amount of money from 260,000 people.
Baksa, who set up his own subordinate system like GodGod, appointed some people to turn the money into cash. The assigned people would convert the money from the ATM into cash, then arrange a meeting point and transfer it to another officer. The last person to receive the money was leaving the money at the fire exit of an apartment near Baksa’s house, and Baksa was taking the money from there.
The police tracked Baksa during the money transfer.
Knowing that the cops were looking for him and confident that he would not be caught, Baksa was sending messages like “Don’t worry, I won’t be caught” to the members of the private room, almost intimidating the police, but Baksa, afraid of being caught, tried to lose his track by converting his Bestcoin accounts to Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Unsuccessful in this move, Baksa was caught while returning home one evening while riding a bicycle with his father and was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the court. “Thank you for putting an end to the life of the demon I couldn’t stop,” he said in a press release. The footage he captured is in the 1st hour and 22nd minute of Netflix’s documentary Cyber Hell: An Internet Nightmare.
GodGod betrayed itself with disposable phones.
He was bragging about not using his own phone, his currency being gift certificates, so he would never be caught, he told JTBC News. He claimed he was untraceable, not like Baksa, but a pro-police hacker group that wanted to help the police managed to track down GodGod. Their information was accessed through the link trap, just as it did to its victims.
It turned out that it was used by GodGod when the application was matched on the disposable phones that his father obtained from the scrap shop. The arrested GodGod said, “I want to say sorry to the victims and their families,” but even as he apologized, there was no expression of regret on his face.
While we add that we are very surprised that this event, which made a great impression in South Korea, was not heard in our country, we kindly ask you not to trust any foreigner on the Internet and not to click on links from unknown people. It is another worrying issue that we see that children are so open to abuse on social media. Since we have made our warnings, we leave the floor to you! What are your thoughts on this event?
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