what to do if someone is blackmailnig?

I had a boyfriend we smooched and his friend clicked our picture now those guys are blackmailing me that they will show that to my school, teachers, and principle etc. what shall I do?

blackmailing is someone lockergnome.net

asked Feb 21 '12 at 00:46

Amanpreet
16●1●1●2

edited Feb 21 '12 at 12:12

trueb
15.4k●53●104●260

4 Answers:

oldest newest most voted

Act like you don't care. Its no fun to blackmail something if you don't care.

You could tell the principal about what is going on, and see if they can put a stop to it as harassment. But there is no law that is being broken here.

I would just find blackmail on them, as they say "Payback is a b1tch." or just pretend you dont care.

answered Feb 21 '12 at 12:23

trueb
15.4k●53●104●260

No crime in kissing, but "Blackmail" is a crime.

answered Feb 21 '12 at 02:40

r0bErT4u
31.0k●514●672●938

18 U.S.C. § 873 "Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."

If I read this right, its not a crime unless they are using information "against any violation of any law of the United States" which makes you an accomplice either during the fact or after the fact. As you said, no crime in kissing, no crime in blackmail. just putting that out there

(Feb 21 '12 at 12:19) trueb

Blackmail is against the law. If you are truly being blackmailed you need to call the police. But please note: I did not read the description of your question, so this advice might no work for your exact situation.

answered Feb 21 '12 at 09:49

Future Superstar123
16●1●1●5

edited Feb 21 '12 at 09:52

Kissing is not a crime, therefor blackmail is not a crime. It is only a crime if the person black mailing is using a criminal act to black mail the person.

(Feb 21 '12 at 12:22) trueb

Plus you would not want to call the police, because you would be admitting guilt to what you did, which for it to be blackmail what you did would have to be against the law as well. This law is there to keep people from not reporting crimes.

(Feb 21 '12 at 12:25) trueb

0	What's so bad about people seeing pictures of you kissing someone? It's not like they're blackmailing you for dating your cousin. answered Feb 21 '12 at 10:49 wvpspdude 301●6●7●19 Or maybe they are... JK (Feb 21 '12 at 12:13) trueb

Your answer

toggle preview

community wiki

Follow this question

By Email:

Once you sign in you will be able to subscribe for any updates here

By RSS:

Answers

Answers and Comments

Markdown Basics

*italic* or __italic__
**bold** or __bold__
link:[text](http://url.com/ "title")
image?![alt text](/path/img.jpg "title")
numbered list: 1. Foo 2. Bar
to add a line break simply add two spaces to where you would like the new line to be.
basic HTML tags are also supported

learn more about Markdown