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Streamer Dream is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The Minecraft star, who revealed his face earlier this month after hiding it for years, has been accused of grooming a minor and sending her inappropriate texts. A Twitter user named Anastasia claimed that Dream flirted with her two years ago when she was only 17 years old. She has also shared some screenshots of her Snapchat conversation with the streamer that went viral on social media. Dream Accused of Grooming Underage Fan A burner account on Twitter posted a thread by Anastasia on October 13, claiming that Dream had been in touch with her since March 19, 2020. The streamer allegedly reached her on her personal Snapchat number and Twitter account. Anastasia shared some screenshots that show the two flirting and sexting with each other. “I’m not here to fully prove my experience that I know happened. I don’t care about showing every receipt. Here’s me telling him I’m 18 SOON (not yet). I also believe I clearly had ’17’ in my bio the same time I have 20 now. I have him asking for my snap and we talked about school,” tweeted Anastasia with a screenshot. “None of…

Users that have received a notification from Snapchat about an ‘Unviewed Story’ can find out why they received the alert and what to do next. Is Snapchat's notification of an 'Unviewed Story' a little confusing? Like many apps, Snapchat sends alerts to its users, letting them know of an event or interaction related to their account. But that doesn't mean the individuals understand what they need to do or exactly what Snapchat is informing them. Snapchat has been creative in keeping users on its platform. First, the introduction of Snapchat+, a paid subscription that leveraged exclusive features, and the first chance to gain new tools to gain and keep users. Recent updates included interactive stickers, so users could ask questions and get responses, and new widgets, so the app is always a tap away. Snapchat drops other capabilities behind the scenes. One of these functions is the 'Unviewed Story' alert. This new notification is causing a bit of confusion among users. Understandably, individuals are getting the idea that someone has 'Unviewed' their own story and lost a number of their rising views. Luckily, this unfavorable scenario isn't the case. When Snapchat sends an alert indicating an 'Unviewed Story,' they inform…

Skip to main contentMurrieta, CALake Elsinore-Wildomar, CAOceanside-Camp Pendleton, CAEscondido, CASan Clemente, CACarlsbad, CARancho Santa Margarita, CATrabuco Canyon, CASan Juan Capistrano, CAMission Viejo, CACaliforniaTop National NewsSee All CommunitiesTEMECULA, CA — Santa Monica-based Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, is being sued by families — including one in Temecula — who lost children to fake "medications" containing fentanyl. The deadly drug was peddled to their kids using the popular instant messaging app and the company did nothing to stop it, the suit alleges.Snap Inc. characterized "several" allegations contained in the lawsuit as "wholly inaccurate," and said the company's cutting-edge technology shuts down drug dealers' accounts and redirects Snapchatters "to resources from experts about the dangers of fentanyl." Snapchat's disappearing messages "encourage, enable and facilitate" illegal drug sales to youth users on the social media platform, according to the complaint filed Oct. 13 in the Los Angeles Superior Court by the Seattle-based Social Media Victims Law Center and New York-based C.A. Goldberg, PLLC.Find out what's happening in Temeculawith free, real-time updates from Patch.The parents and sisters of Alexandra Capelouto, 20, are among nine families represented in the suit. Capelouto was an Arizona State University student, home for the holidays with her family…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On October 12, 2022, United States District Court Judge Silvia Carreño Coll sentenced Iván Santell-Velázquez to 13 months in prison and two years of supervised release for cyberstalking, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2), announced W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The defendant plead guilty on July 13, 2022. According to the parties’ stipulation of facts, Santell-Velázquez, while a student at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, sent unauthorized emails to faculty, administration, and students under the moniker “Slay3r_r00t”. Santell-Velázquez targeted over 100 student email accounts and used phishing and spoofing schemes to successfully break into multiple university e-mail accounts. He also hacked into several female students’ Snapchat accounts between 2019 and 2021, some of which contained nude images that he shared with third parties who published the images online.  After Santell-Velázquez broke into a victim’s Snapchat account, she began receiving harassing text messages with her intimate pictures. Nude photos stolen from the victim’s Snapchat account were also posted on Twitter and on a Facebook page. The plea agreement identified 15 women and the University of Puerto Rico as victims of Santell-Velázquez. “The prosecution of cyber criminals is a top…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former student at the University of Puerto Rico has been sentenced to more than a year in federal prison after authorities accused him of breaking into women’s Snapchat accounts and sharing their nude images with others.The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thursday that Iván Santell-Velázquez pleaded guilty to cyberstalking in July as part of a plea agreement. A judge on Wednesday ordered him to serve 13 months in prison and two years of supervised release.Santell-Velázquez also was accused of breaking into multiple university email accounts and of targeting 15 women from 2019 to 2021.Authorities said Santell-Vázquez sent the nude images to other people who then published them online. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Two New Orleans men were arrested on child pornography counts, after state investigators said they used a social media platform to share videos depicting children as young as infants and toddlers being raped.Court records show Ernell Banks, 31, and Matthew Fahm, 37, were arrested Tuesday (Oct. 11) and made their first appearances Wednesday in Orleans Parish Magistrate Court.Banks was booked with 40 counts of child pornography. But magistrate commissioner Robert Blackburn only found probable cause on six counts and set Banks’ bond at $12,000.Fahm was booked with 25 counts of child pornography. But Blackburn again found probable cause for only six counts, and set Fahm’s bond also at $12,000.According to an arrest warrant affidavit, special agents of the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Crime Unit received a Cybertip report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in July.The report alerted agents to online activity on accounts linked to Banks, which allegedly involved the uploading of pornographic images of juveniles to Snapchat as far back as May 30.Special agent Lindsay Tonglet wrote that evidence was gathered over the past few months through subpoenas issued to social media and telecommunications companies used by the suspects.On…

PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon man is facing federal charges after he allegedly sexually abused two minors in Othello that he met on Snapchat.Albert Wayne Johnson, 40, is charged in Oregon with coercing and enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity and transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct.According to court records, Oregon law enforcement responded on Aug. 8 after two children were abandoned at a park. The children reportedly told police they had met Johnson on Snapchat and he had driven them from Washington state, through Idaho and into Oregon and had sexually abused them during the trip. Prosecutors say Johnson had stopped at a motel in Othello and a campground in Oregon where he abused both children.Othello police were able to obtain security footage from the motel that allegedly showed Johnson with the two children.Johnson remains held in an Oregon jail after making his initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday. He faces up to life in prison with a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence per charge.

The claim: Snapchat filters are a facial recognition database created by the FBIThe use of facial recognition technology has become commonplace, with many people using it on a daily basis to unlock their phones or sort their photos.A recent Facebook post, though, claims a popular photo messaging app uses the technology to collect data for federal law enforcement. “Snapchat filters are a facial recognition database created by the FBI,” reads text included in the Oct. 3 post, which has been shared over 100 times in two days. “You don’t believe me? Google: Patent US9396354.”But the claim is false.Snapchat’s augmented reality filters, known as lenses, allow users to digitally alter their appearance in selfies by adding, among other things, dog ears, sunglasses and mustaches. The app does not collect any data that can be used to identify a specific person, a spokesperson for Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, told USA TODAY in an emailed statement.The limited data used to power lenses isn't sent to the company's servers and never leaves the user's mobile device, the spokesperson said.USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the post for comment.Follow us on Facebook! Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunksSnapchat can't identify features…

Snapchat and Prime Video have announced a partnership to bring “Landmarker” technology Down Under for the first time on the Sydney Harbour Bridge which will enable users to visualise Númenor, an island kingdom located to the west of Middle-earth in the hit The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, through Augmented Reality on Snapchat, which will be available from 6 – 22 October.Fans of The Rings of Power can visit the iconic Harbour Bridge, where fans can watch the entire structure being transformed to the entrance of Númenor and in a matter of seconds, the Harbour Bridge Pylons will turn into statues of Númenor.Kathryn Carter, APAC General Manager, Snap Inc has stated:“The Snapchat community uses ground-breaking AR technology to engage with the world around them every day with incredible innovations which allow our community to experience the power of AR, through the Snapchat camera, like never before. We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Prime Video Australia team to bring The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power to life on The Sydney Harbour Bridge via our exclusive Landmarker technology in Australia for the first time after huge success in major events in London, Paris, New York, Mumbai…

Snapchat is planning to introduce a set of parental controls for its users in India. This comes a few weeks after the parental controls were ...