Elvin Chuang: Online Extortionist

Meet Elvin Chuang: Internet pervert. This 20-year-old Hunter College student has alledgedly been trolling MySpace and Facebook for dumb girls. His MO: he reads up all he can on you from your sites and then IMs you. He claims he is an old high school friend who recently changed “her” screenname. “She” gains your trust with all that “private” information she garnered from your “personal” sites, and then springs her sob story on you: She’s in trouble in her art class, and she needs tasteful nude photographs to pass the class and keep that $2,000 scholarship. If you don’t send her nude photos of yourself, you’ll be solely responsible for ruining her life. Oh, what to do?

Any normal girl would block said random internet stalker, and relate said story to all her friends over a laugh and a beer. However, dozens of girls fell for this (admittedly lame) scam. Once Elvin got the illicit pictures of these 18-19 year old girls, he began to extort more pictures from them, threatening to post their pictures all over the internet and in their schools.

Sure, Elvin is a pervert. He’s scum, and he should go to jail for the 2.5-5 years he deserves. But seriously, if you were dumb enough to fall for his little scam, you kind of deserve it. Learn some common sense before you leave college and enter the real world. Seriously.

» via NYPost, Gawker

Tagged: MySpace, Facebook, Stalker, Elvin Chuang