41. 666devil: Could anyone become a victim of sextortion?

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Matt Falder is the UK’s worst “sextorter”. A convicted serial sex offender, he used online accounts to blackmail over 40 victims into sending him naked photos, perform sexual acts and even getting one person commit rape. He was also at the time, a Cambridge University student and one of the Bad People team shares their story of coming face to face with him. Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen discuss how the online world has created a new type of crime that targets and exploits young people in the most horrific way possible. This episode contains audio from: Sky News, CBSN and National Crime Agency Warning: This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence CREDITS Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Caroline Steel Assistant Producer: Simona Rata Editor: Rami Tzabar Music: Matt Chandler Academic Consultants for The Open University: Dr Lara Frumkin and Dr James Munro Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland #BadPeople_BBC Bad People is produced in partnership with The Open University and is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	Hello, Gary Lednika here with Alan Shira and Michael Richards to say the match of the day top 10 podcast is back
0:07.4	We'll be ranking our footballing top 10s and debiting. It was right. Well, it's don't be me. Not a champ. It's Gary
0:14.8	First season wonders to goalkeeping blunders. Nothing is off the table. You had a few blunders in your day. Did you Gary?
0:22.0	Yeah, match of the day top 10. Listen only on BBC sounds
0:27.4	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts
0:32.4	Three, two, one
0:35.6	Sophie, do you think that you could be blackmailed?
0:39.6	No, I don't think so. What if someone told you that a friend or someone you loved did some things I could threaten their career
0:45.7	If the public found out or maybe you have some sort of dark family secret that could leak?
0:49.6	I mean, I've already sold all my dark family secrets on stage and
0:54.0	Yeah, there are a lot of nude photos of me out there, but most of them are on my own Instagram account
0:58.6	Mm-hmm fair because why wouldn't I what you're gonna do threatens to show the world how hard I look naked? Oh, no
1:04.6	Please don't
1:06.0	Well, it sounds like maybe you're an exception and maybe you couldn't be the victim of today's topic, which is sex torsion
1:13.6	sex
1:14.2	Stores what sex torsion. I'm Dr. Julia Shah and I'm Sophie Hagen and this is bad people
1:20.6	This episode will contain discussions of child abuse and may contain strong language
1:26.5	One of Britain's most notorious pedophiles has been sentenced to 32 years in prison Matthew Fowler pleaded guilty to
1:33.9	137 charges including blackmail and encouraging the rape of a minor good afternoon
1:39.0	One of Britain's most prolific pedophiles has been jailed for 32 years after using online blackmail to target a number of vulnerable victims
1:47.1	Our story begins in 2009 a man decides to set up a hidden camera in some washrooms and
1:56.2	He films his friends and peers in the toilet and the showers and then he shares these images and photos on the dark web
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