They sentenced to two years in prison in the United States the "Brujo Vip" Argentinian: he promised loving moorings and extorted with sexual videos

Ariel Boiteux and his accomplices, who worked in Paraguay, posted ads on the Internet according to those who offered to do spells to help people find love, said the authorities. Clients were asked to register for badual acts and to send their videos to Boiteux to complete the fate.

Once they've done it, victims have been threatened with publishing their videos on the Internet unless they made a payment. According to some sources, a personality claimed $ 250,000.

More than 200 people from different parts of the world have been deceived, the authorities said. Boiteaux was arrested in Paraguay, extradited and pleaded guilty last year for threatening extortion overseas.

He was an "online wizard". He offered his clients, who were mostly women, a service on various websites with the promise of "impossible love", "to take away stormy love" and even to "recover the couple who had abandoned them". ".

After having convinced them and having charged a value between the 250 and the 300 dollars to each for work, he asked for videos, photos and erotic audios as part of a supposed ritual that would help them achieve the sentimental goals that they were looking for. Already with the material and the money in his possession, the fate would begin. However, what happened next, is that a stranger quickly contacted the victims and had them sing in order to pay him more money in dollars in exchange for not make badual images public.

It was the mode of operation of Lame, an Argentinean hacker known as "Brujo Vip", who managed to get nearly $ 1 million in just two years of scams. The criminal was not alone. According to the survey, he was the brain of a gang of at least six fraudsters who operated behind three webpages: amarres.com, amarre.com and brujovip.com, all written off today.

Boiteux is a computer engineer who, in Argentina, lived in the city of Buenos Aires and in the province of San Juan.. He then moved to Paraguay, where he established his operations center until it disappeared at the end of last year following an official complaint lodged by two women from the State of California and that has opened an investigation of the authorities of Asunción.

In the details provided, the manner in which the organization was charged was known. After the blackmail, the "wizard Vip" gave order to his victims to transfer money by Western Union. He often forced them to divide the amount because the money transfer company controlled shipments of more than $ 2,000. In fact, it was learned that once a woman had paid up to $ 25,000 to prevent them from showing their images.

After the case of the two Americans, the Paraguayan police understood the scope of the group. In August 2017, the denunciation of the North American federal agency arrived in this country Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) (Homeland Security Investigations). According to the warrant, Boiteux allegedly participated, at least since June 2015 and up to November 2017, in a conspiracy to exploit an extortion ploy.

According to the agency, one of the Californians did not have the extortion money and paid the price for it: the "sorcerer" group has released a video of her with badual content. Women who have fallen into their networks cover large latitudes. Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Spain, Switzerland and Italy are the other places where their network of deception has arrived.

Boiteux was arrested last November in Ciudad del Este after an ambush that investigators did to him when he was going to accuse a new Western Union tour next to a 15-year-old miner. The prosecutor of the unit specializing in computer crimes, Irma Llano, blamed the brother of the head of the group, the wife and the mother, because they are the ones who "invoiced part of the mandates" .

In June 2018, after seven months in jail, Boiteux was extradited from Paraguay at the request of the Southern District Court of California for defrauding the two women who had served as a coup to dismantle the company. 39; organization. When he saw that he could be sent to the United States, the hacker went on a hunger strike to avoid extradition. and he even sewed the mouth with thread. His last disappointment did not work.