{"id":4181,"date":"2021-02-22T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediaofthings.co.uk\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2021-02-22T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:48:47","slug":"are-you-a-victim-of-the-east-london-blackmailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaofthings.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/are-you-a-victim-of-the-east-london-blackmailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a victim of the East London blackmailer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>POLICE ARE investigating a number of blackmail threats which appear to have been made by the same man. He rings people up and threatens violence against them and their families if they do not pay him large sums of money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far he has made threatening calls to a collection of people in Bedfordshire \u2013 and also to people in East London.\u00a0 The man uses various tactics to disguise his identity, but one arrest has already been made.\u00a0 Police are asking anyone who has had one of these calls to come forward: the more potential victims they know about, the easier it will be for them to collect evidence and mount a prosecution.s<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Detective Constable Michael Beskine, said:\u00a0\u201cThe man\u2019s method is frightening. He obtains the personal details of his victims and then calls them whilst disguising his telephone number as the numbers of his victims&#8217; friends and family to trick his victims into answering the phone. He tells his victims their addresses, their family members\u2019 names and other facts to scare them, before demanding money and threatening them with acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe man\u2019s behaviour during calls is aggressive. Sometimes he has stated that victims owe money to him or that they owe money to a third party, or even that someone known to them owes money to a third party. He has a British accent. We have identified two victims \u2013 neither of whom made payments to the man \u2013 but there are likely to be other victims who have not yet come forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25cf<\/strong><\/span>Anyone who has been approached by a blackmailer in this manner, whether or not they have pad over any money, or who has any other information which may assist police is asked to call police on 101 and quote reference Cad 3849\/12FEB21.s<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25cfTo catch up with the news in East London, go to:<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlondonnews.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>East London News<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u25cfWatch East London\u2019s weekly news magazine programme,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">live at 10pm every Tuesday and on demand all week:<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VodTalk\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The Tuesday Show<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLICE ARE investigating a number of blackmail threats which appear to have been made by the same man. He rings people up and threatens violence against them and their families if they do not pay him large sums of money. So far he has made threatening calls to a collection of people in Bedfordshire \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are you a victim of the East London blackmailer? - Media of Things<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mediaofthings.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/are-you-a-victim-of-the-east-london-blackmailer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are you a victim of the East London blackmailer? - Media of Things\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"POLICE ARE investigating a number of blackmail threats which appear to have been made by the same man. 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