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20 letni koreańczyk, admin strony z porno z dziećmi, robił sobie z nastolatkami sweet fotki na imprezach karaoke, jako formę groomingu, czyli spoufalania się i zdobywania zaufania z strony naiwnych dzieciaków.

The school administrator had posted videos of himself on social media singing duets, karaoke-style, with teenage girls from his school. The videos might otherwise have been seen as innocent. But given what they knew about the man’s Bitcoin payments, agents who had more experience with child exploitation warned Janczewski that they might reflect a form of grooming.

These were men in privileged positions of power, with potential access to victims. The investigators could immediately see that, as they suspected, they would need to arrest some of Welcome to Video’s users as quickly as possible, even before they could arrange the takedown of the site.

Child exploitation experts had cautioned them that some offenders had systems in place to warn others if law enforcement had arrested or compromised them—code words or dead man’s switches that sent out alerts if they were absent from their computer for a certain period of time. Still, the Welcome to Video investigation team felt they had little choice but to move quickly and take that risk.

Pracownik kongresu USA miał konto na stronie i latał często na Filipiny.
Podjęto próbę przetestowania gościa i na lotnisku przeszukano jego dyski twarde gdzie znaleziono pornole z strony.
Gość wyskoczył z 11 piętra zanim go doprowadzono do przesłuchania

man was a former congressional staffer and held a high-level job at a prestigious environmental organization.

They found that he had flown to the Philippines and was about to fly back to DC via Detroit.

This discovery led the agents and prosecutors to two thoughts: First, the Philippines was a notorious destination for sex tourism, often of the kind that preyed on children—the HSI office in Manila constantly had its hands full with child exploitation cases

and found child exploitation videos, along with surreptitiously recorded videos of adult sex. Their decision to target the man had served its purpose: Their test case had come back positive.

In spite of his stoicism, this second test case affected Janczewski more than the DC target had. The tidy, well-kept brick two-story house. The parents questioned in separate rooms. The kids the same age as Janczewski’s own, watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. As he stood in the entryway of that house outside of Atlanta, the full toll of the investigation hit him—the fact that every name on their list was a person with human connections and, in many cases, a family. That even accusing suspects of such an unforgivable crime had an irreversible impact on their lives—that it was “a scarlet letter for someone that just cannot be undone,” as he put it.

Gość z służb adoptował córkę aby robić z nią filmy

He was another Department of Homeland Security staffer—this time a Border Patrol agent.

Finally, with a creeping sense of dread, Janczewski saw that the Border Patrol agent’s wife had a young daughter—and that he had created a crowdfunding page on GoFundMe to raise money to legally adopt the girl as his stepdaughter. “Fuck,” Janczewski thought to himself. “Did he upload videos of the daughter?”

On a cool, dry evening about a hundred miles from the Mexican border, Tamsi and a group of Texas State Police officers tailed their target as he drove home from work and pulled him over. Together with a group of FBI agents, they took the man to a nearby hotel for questioning.

The two-story home was run-down and messy, Janczewski remembers—with the exception of the man’s well-organized home office on the second floor, where they found his computer. Down the hall from that office he came to the girl’s bedroom and immediately recognized it as the scene where the videos uploaded by the man had been filmed. On the wall he noticed a poster he’d seen in the recordings and momentarily felt as though he’d fallen through the screen of his own computer into the set of a horror film.

Userzy strony byli takimi debilami, że dawali username/password userowi który na czacie udawał admina/moda

Under questioning, the man explained his scheme: He would pose as an administrator in messages he posted to the site’s chat page, then ask users who took the bait to send him their usernames and passwords, which he’d use to log in to their accounts and access their videos.

Ambasador węgierski w Peru

a Hungarian ambassador to Peru who downloaded content from Welcome to Video was found to have more than 19,000 CSAM images on his computer. He was quietly removed from his South American post, taken to Hungary, and charged; he pleaded guilty.

Arab saudyjski, prawdopodobnie ścięty mieczem

One Saudi Arabian Welcome to Video user returned to his home country and was captured by that country’s own law enforcement. Faruqui and Janzewski say they never heard what happened to the man; he was left to the Saudis’ own justice system, which sentences some sex criminals to the Sharia-based punishments of whipping or even beheading

Na moment pisania artykułu aresztowano 337 userów (mała część całości) i uratowano 23 dzieci

global law enforcement would arrest no fewer than 337 people for their involvement with Welcome to Video. They also removed 23 children from sexually exploitative situations.

Those 337 arrests still represented only a small fraction of Welcome to Video’s total registered users. When the US team examined their copy of the server data in Korea, they had found thousands of accounts on the site. But the vast majority of them had never paid any bitcoins into the site’s wallets. With no money to follow, the investigators’ trail usually went cold.

Prawie każdy z śledczych ma dzieci, po tej sprawie każdy z nich jest o wiele bardziej ostrożny komu dają dzieci pod opiekę

Almost every member of the team had children of their own, and almost all of them say they became far more protective of those children as a result of their work, to the degree that their trust in the people around their family has been significantly damaged.

Po kolei opisywane są sytuacje na jakie należy zwracać uwagę jako rodzic

Even seemingly innocent interactions—like another friendly parent who offers to watch his kids at the other end of a swimming pool—now trigger red alerts in his mind. Youli Lee says she won’t allow her 9- and 12-year-old children to go into public bathrooms by themselves. Nor will she allow them to play at a friend’s house unless the friend’s parents have top-secret security clearances—an admittedly arbitrary rule, but one she says ensures the parents have at least had a background check.

Kim byli przykładowi userzy? Lekarze, dyrektorzy, funkcjonariusze policji

“I saw that everybody’s capable of this: doctors, principals, law enforcement,” he reflected. “Whatever you want to call it, evil, or whatever it is: It’s in everybody—or it can be in anybody.”

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admin strony wyszedł po 18 miesięcy więzienia w Korei Południowej. Ekstradycja do USA została odmówiona

in early July of 2020, Son Jong-woo walked out of a Seoul penitentiary wearing a black long-sleeve T-shirt and carrying a green plastic bag of his belongings. He had spent, due to Korea’s lenient laws on child sexual abuse, just 18 months in prison.

US prosecutors, including Faruqui, had argued that he should be extradited to the United States to face charges in the American justice system, but Korea had denied their request. Welcome to Video’s convicted creator and administrator was free.

Arab w Holandii był adminem innej strony nazwanej "dark scandals"

administrator in the Netherlands, a man named Michael Rahim Mohammad, who went by the online handle “Mr. Dark.” He faces criminal charges in the US, and his case is ongoing.

Sąd USA odrzucił argument o "prawie do prywatności" ponieważ bitcoin po prostu nie jest prywatny/anonimowy

he had mistakenly believed his Bitcoin transactions to have ever been private in the first place.