The investigations coordinated by the revealed that it created it profiles on social networks to spread against entrepreneurs and known people of the society of São José do Rio Preto and Fernandópolis, in the interior of São Paulo. One of the pages, named “Boca Glamor”, blackmailed the victims saying that he would disclose fake news if they did not pay.
According to the delegate responsible for the investigations, Everson Contelli of the Fernandópolis Sectional Police Station, a businessman even paid about $ 15,000 to criminals to prevent the page from publishing about it. “There were often information that had real background, but the focus was to blackmail the victims attacking their reputation. After publishing first untrue or hatred news, the group was looking for or contacted their families to demand money to cease disclosures.”
After 10 months of investigative work, two people were arrested on charges of the attacks. Another point of police investigation found that there were even groups, where scammers created signatures for those who wanted to have privileged information about the gossip of the city. Most of the time, according to police, news invented on people. The column was unable to contact the defenses of those involved. The space remains open for manifestation.
