TEMECULA, Calif. — A college student was arrested Thursday
for allegedly hijacking the webcams of young women — among them reigning Miss
Teen USA Cassidy Wolf — taking nude images, then blackmailing his victims to
send him more explicit material or else be exposed.
Jared James Abrahams, a 19-year-old computer science student from
Temecula, California, surrendered on Thursday to the FBI on federal extortion
charges, the agency announced. Authorities say he victimized young women
surreptitiously, by taking control of their computers then photographing them
as they changed out of their clothes.
When he admitted what he’d done in June, Abrahams said he had 30
to 40 “slave computers” — or other people’s electronic devices he controlled —
and has had as many as 150 total, according to a criminal complaint.
His arrest came six months after a teenager identified in court
documents as C.W. alerted authorities. She has since publicly identified
herself as Cassidy Wolf, the recently crowned Miss Teen USA. She touted news
reports of her alleged tormenter’s arrest on her Twitter feed.
At the time she contacted police, in March, Wolf was not a
national figure — even though she was Miss Teen California — and lived in an
apartment and attended Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.
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