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A 'callous' teenager who used nude photos and videos to blackmail the friends of women and girls as young as 17 after hacking into their Snapchat accounts has been jailed for two years.
Jasin Bushi, 18, 'completely violated' the victims' privacy by hacking into the accounts of at least seven women and girls aged 17 to 35 between December 2020 and February last year and changing their passwords to lock them out.
Bushi, of Aldenham Street, Camden posed as the victims and sent messages to their friends asking for around £200 or £300 in rent money so they wouldn't be kicked out of their home.
When some of the targets realised something wasn't right and called out the hacker, Bushi, who was 17 at the time, threatened to send naked pictures of the victim he was posing as to all their contacts unless they paid money into his PayPal account.
Jasin Bushi (pictured), 18, of Camden, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of blackmail and fraud by false representation at Wood Green Crown Court
The court heard that between December 2020 and February 2021, Bushi, who was 17 at the time, hacked into seven women's Snapchat accounts, posed as the victim and messaged their friends. Pictured: An example of his messages
Intimate pictures and videos of victims were posted publicly on numerous occasions and were seen by the victims' family, friends and colleagues.
Bushi denied actually posting them, and that was accepted by the Judge.
Police from the Met's Cyber Crime Unit first got involved in May 2021.
Detectives found fake PayPal accounts with fictional personal details and email accounts tied to the victims' names.
They linked Bushi to the fake accounts through two mobile numbers that he was using.
When officers searched his home address in Camden, north London, they found on his phone some of the victims' compromised personal banking details, emails and passwords and a note that read: 'Hey, I'm struggling with rent.
'I'm literally short and I'm probably going to get kicked out if I can't pay. I'll pay back on Monday.'
One victim, whose friends, family and colleagues saw the posts, said she suffered a variety of negative psychological consequences since the hacking.
She said she has felt humiliation and shame when she has had to face her family, has withdrawn socially at work and thinks her staff have lost respect for her.
She added: 'Snapchat was a social media platform where I had years of stored treasured memories of photos and videos of my child, and I now feel nauseated using the app.
'I had a friend who, thinking she was helping me, lost a significant amount of money due to this incident and I feel indebted to her.
'I was fortunate enough to not be physically injured by this incident, but the long-lasting psychological effects impact me every day, and I feel that this is likely to be the case for a long time in the future.'
Another victim found out about private intimate images of her being posted in Snapchat while she was at work after her colleagues informed her.
She said: 'I felt embarrassed, I left the office straight away in tears and had a few days off work because I felt I couldn't face the people who have seen those private images.
'The feeling still haunts me now of when I first saw those photos on my public story, I would never wish that feeling upon anyone.'
