Jail for Thame scammer who tricked teen into sending nude photos | Oxford Mail

A twisted fantasist set up fake social media profiles to trick an 18-year-old woman into sending him nude photographs of herself. Lee Alexander’s victim thought she was sending the images, which were sent via Snapchat, to a bona fide model agency. But the Snapchat account was, in fact, being operated by then 20-year-old Alexander. READ MORE: Prison phone rap dropped Within days of her sending the images, the online pervert messaged her from another account under a different name – claiming to have hacked the model agency’s Snapchat. He demanded she send more explicit photographs, threatening to release the original photographs online if she didn’t comply with his vile demands. Oxford Crown Court heard the woman went to the police in early March 2020 when she received the demand. Alexander was arrested in a dawn swoop at his parents’ home in Thame on March 4. He began spinning the web of lies in which he would later find himself stuck fast. He claimed not to have a phone, although police found two in his home that he’d used to log in to the fake social media profiles. He said that ‘Joe Averry’, the Instagram profile that had made the initial…
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