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Zain Qaiser: Student jailed for blackmailing porn users worldwide

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Dissent

Dominic Cacsiani reports:

A student who made hundreds of thousands of pounds blackmailing pornography website users with cyber attacks has been jailed.

Zain Qaiser from Barking, London, used his programming skills to scam visitors to pornography sites around the world.

Investigators have discovered about £700,000 of his profits – but his network may have made more than £4m.

Qaiser, 24, was jailed for more than six years at Kingston Crown Court.

Read more on BBC.

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