SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Andreas Gkertsos catfished, blackmailed and stalked women after befriending them with fake social media profiles.
Scotland's most prolific online predator can be unmasked for the first time after a campaign of terror that wrecked a string of young women’s lives.
Using a web of fake social media profiles, Gkertsos convinced eight women to send him sexual images, bombarded them with abuse then ordered them to send more pictures or cash to make him stop. He is one of the youngest people in Scotland investigated under revenge porn laws introduced in 2017. Now 23, Becky said she is afraid to go out alone, is uncomfortable around men and took antidepressants after the abuse she suffered.
At one point Becky and her mum Alexis received hundreds of messages a day from anonymous accounts set up by Gkertsos. Childcare worker Chantal, 23, had a setting turned on in Snapchat which allowed other users to see her location – which is usually off by default.Chantal said: “He said his name was Callum, he was 21 and lived in Oxgangs.
Chantal told how she received messages apparently from friends telling her to unblock Callum Murray and give him a chance. They would turn out to be fake. She said: “I used to go to car meets with my friends and my sister and I realised he had been there as well. I never spoke to him, I didn’t know who he was or why he’d done this to me. I realised he had made fake profiles pretending to be my actual friends.”
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