Practice Areas: Victims' RightsOnline Blackmail, Extortion & Sextortion

When it comes to blackmail, extortion and sextortion, nobody threatens our clients and gets away with it

C.A. Goldberg, PLLC makes your privacy our cause – there’s a reason you haven’t heard about many of these cases. 

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Making the bad actors go away. Forever.

Many of our clients are at the peak of very successful and public careers when a destructive person enters their lives and sees our clients’ success as a bargaining chip for blackmail and extortion. Others are simply students goofing off on the internet when some anonymous person demands money. . . or else. Enter us.

We are experts at making these bad actors go away forever and in protecting our clients’ valuable reputation while it’s happening.

In cases where our clients already have trusted lawyers, we bring our expertise to the team. In addition to our excellent lawyers, we have a team of highly skilled operators we can dispatch at a moment’s notice. They include military trained cyber-intelligence investigators, private investigators, search engine suppressors.

We have special software to archive anything on the web so that it’s admissible in court. We also have relationships with every major social media company and search engine. So if malicious content already is on the Internet, we just pick up the phone.

You probably know our clients, but you probably don’t know their stories

  • Representation of a celebrated author against an obsessed woman who made false representations about an affair on various impersonating social media accounts.
  • Representation of a CEO of international business in family court and civil court to enjoin a malicious website.
  • Representation executive of Fortune 500 company whose teenage daughter was a victim of revenge porn.
  • Representation of a world-renowned doctor against extorting ex-mistress.
  • De-anonymized super-fan of child actor and sent cease and desist
  • Removed malicious social media accounts and photos from the Internet after a crooked boudoir photographer published marital photos of dotcom executive without consent.
  • Representation of real estate scion against an anonymous woman on OKCupid who threatened to post embarrassing emails exchanged with her son, a medical student.
  • Representation of a reality star whose malicious super-fan was threatening to falsely out him as gay.
  • Removed search engine results for international commodities trader targeted by website falsely accusing him of fraud.
  • Advised publicists for world famous pop star whose underage sex video was being marketed to tabloids.
  • Representation of managing partner of a law firm whose college-aged daughter was being threatened with revenge porn.
  • Representation of law firm partner where former co-worker was stalking and threatening
  • And 100’s more.

We’ve also represented handled cases for many children who were lured by an anonymous person they met online into producing child pornography and then blackmailed.

We handle the following

    • Real Time Crisis Management  – The moment the threat is acted on, we will collaborate with our contacts at major social media companies and adult websites to remove the explicit content.
    • Existing Content Removal – Extensive removal of sexually graphic content and/or private and potentially embarrassing information from social media, adult websites, message-boards, and review-based sites.

  • Sextortion scams frequently involve anonymous actors who prey on men and children, convince them to engage in sexual conduct online and then threaten to spread the images if they don’t pay or produce more content.  Many of our clients are also women contacted by trolls who’ve found their nudes online and are blackmailing our clients into sending money or more nudes. Often the perpetrator is anonymous or impersonating another person and may live on the other side of the world. 

    Once the offender gets money, they know they can demand more and more and more. It’s very  important that child victims of extortion tell an adult they trust.  Child victims need to know that they are the victim and have done nothing wrong. If you are feeling suicidal because somebody is threatening you online, please tell somebody you trust and also you can text 988, the suicide and crisis lifeline.

    We’ve helped almost 100 victims of sextortion over the years. Many of our victims of sextortion do not want to seek criminal intervention because privacy is their biggest concern. We can work with that, help assess the risk, and develop a plan for this nightmare to end.

  • How can you be prepared for the worst if you don’t know what the worst is? We can create a detailed Vulnerability Report that outlines your professional and personal exposures that could follow an extortionist’s malicious actions.

  • Strategic counsel and advice on how to discuss your crisis with employers, family, and other loved ones.

  • Many of our clients and potential clients are scammed by unknown offenders hiding behind aliases, unknown numbers and false profiles. We open lawsuits against these John/Jane Does and subpoena internet companies to uncover their true identities. Once we do this, we send the offenders Cease and Desist Letters, obtain Family Court Orders of Protection, advocate for their criminal arrests, or sue the daylights out of them in order to find justice for our clients.

We Are Cutting edge litigators against big tech and powerful predators at work, home, school, and online

C.A. Goldberg, PLLC, is the country’s first law firm dedicated to justice for victims catastrophically injured by human maniacs and inhumane tech platforms.  Since 2014, we’ve been at the forefront shutting down some of the worst humans and platforms (e.g. Harvey Weinstein, Omegle, GirlsDoPorn) and have litigated some of the most influential cases – against Amazon, Snap, Meta – reining in the tech companies that thought they were above the law.

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