With the quarantine that happened during the coronavirus, many of us became bored with nothing to entertain ourselves. Even though parts of the country are opening up, there are still many people who would rather stay protected from the virus inside their homes. Because of this, they needed to find something to entertain themselves, leading many people to turn to porn to get rid of their boredom. This has caused a spike of porn consumption throughout the country which has led to a spike of coronavirus porn scams in the United States.
Taken from PornHub, this data shows how much PornHub viewing in the United States increased compared to before the coronavirus happened. The views on an average day decreased by -0.7% before coronavirus restrictions happened on February 24th. Once the government started shutting down due to the pandemic, people were forced to stay indoors and only go out for essential needs. This led to an increase in porn viewing during the month of March, where views on an average day rose to 6.4%.
Also taken from PornHub, this data table shows the hourly viewing increase on March 17th compared to what it used to be before the coronavirus quarantine. According to this graph, there was a 40.3% increase in viewers in the middle of the night and a 26.8% increase in viewers in the middle of the day. This goes to show that because of the pandemic, people were staying up late at night and were stuck at home during the day, looking for something to pass the time. Therefore, the audience percentage peaked at these specific times.
Also taken from PornHub, this graph shows the percentage of traffic increases throughout the world. You are able to change the country you would like to view by clicking the “World” drop-down menu and selecting the country of the stats you want to view. Even though there are slight decreases during this period of time, it is still apparent that traffic is continuing to increase compared to what it used to be back in early March. Even if we focused on just the United States, we can see that the amount of users on PornHub continues to remain steady from March-July since the coronavirus restrictions began.
Scammers are aware whenever something trends or becomes more popular because they want to target as many victims as they can to steal their funds and drain their bank accounts. They have paid attention to the increase of audience on porn sites, and are now using that to their advantage as they blackmail people into giving them their hard-earned cash.
Here are the types of coronavirus porn scams that you should avoid as you quarantine at home:
The scammer sends you an email stating that they installed malware on their device that has been tracking what kind of porn they watch and recording the user “satisfying themselves” as they watch porn. The scammer blackmails the victim into sending them $2,000, or they will send the porn and video footage over to the victims’ contacts.
The victim gets scared that the scammer actually has video footage of them watching porn and sends the money over to keep them quiet. The scammer doesn’t think the money is enough and keeps bugging the victim until their bank account is drained.
The scammer matches with their victims on dating apps and tells the victims to follow them on Snapchat. Once they are added on Snapchat, the scammer tells the victim that this is their premium account where the victim can pay them money to view their explicit pictures.
The victim uses Venmo usually to send over the money, then the premium girl blocks the victim taking the money without sending back anything in return. If the premium girl happens to send over her pictures, she could then bug the victim for more money until their bank account is drained.
A scammer (usually resembles a girl) swipes right on their victim and tells them they are over 18-years-old. She asks for the victim’s phone number because she doesn’t like talking on a dating app. She asks the victim to send a picture of themselves and the scammer sends a picture back. The scammer then tells the victim that they are actually 16-years-old, which usually scares the victim into blocking her from their phone.
“It was the worst experience of my life. I thought I was going to get arrested and genuinely thought giving him the money would make him stop threatening me. But he kept bugging me until I realized from a friend that it was all a scam,” an anonymous source has stated.
What the victim doesn’t know is the scammer still has their phone number, so they create another fake phone number and pretend to be the girl’s dad. They threaten to place a warrant on the victim and get the cops involved if the victim doesn’t send them over money. Once the victim is scared into sending them money, they keep bugging the victim for more and more money until they drain the victim’s bank account.
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