{"id":52283,"date":"2023-02-23T21:14:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T05:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52283"},"modified":"2023-02-23T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T05:14:26","slug":"alleged-sim-swapper-charged-with-hacking-instagram-influencers-accounts-to-get-money-and-sexually-explicit-video-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=52283","title":{"rendered":"Alleged &#8220;Sim Swapper&#8221; Charged with Hacking Instagram Influencers Accounts to Get Money and Sexually Explicit Video Chats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6759 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Department-of-Justice.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>According to authorities, a Downtown Los Angeles man was charged in a six-count federal grand jury indictment for allegedly defrauding female social media influencers, including by \u201cSIM swapping\u201d to hijack their Instagram accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">He also allegedly obtained money from them and engaged in sexually explicit video chats with him, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amir Hossein Golshan, 24, is charged with two counts of wire fraud, one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, one count of accessing a computer to defraud and obtain value, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of threatening to damage a protected computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/292994.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52285 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/292994-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"phone, display, apps\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/292994-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/292994-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/292994-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/292994.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Golshan has been in federal custody since his arrest on a criminal complaint in this case on February 2.\u00a0 He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) is a small, portable memory chip card that stores a cellphone user\u2019s information and authenticates cellphone subscribers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u201cSIM swapping\u201d is the process of fraudulently inducing a carrier to reassign a cellphone number from the legitimate subscriber or user\u2019s SIM card to a SIM card controlled by another without the legitimate subscriber or user\u2019s authorization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?attachment_id=52286\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52286 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fvtg38cjc_k-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"person holding space gray iPhone X\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fvtg38cjc_k-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fvtg38cjc_k-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fvtg38cjc_k-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/fvtg38cjc_k.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> According to court documents, from April 2019 to February 2023, Golshan schemed to defraud female social media influencers, models, and friends on social media. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">Golshan allegedly accomplished his scheme by targeting social media influencers and causing the victims\u2019 cell phone numbers to be SIM swapped. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">He allegedly did this by deceiving the victims\u2019 phone carriers into transporting the victims\u2019 cellphone number to a Golshan-controlled cellphone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">Golshan then reset the password and codes for the victims\u2019 social media accounts and caused them to be sent to a device he controlled, the indictment alleges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39979 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/judge-gavel-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/>Golshan then allegedly logged into the victims\u2019 social media accounts, impersonated them to their online friends, and requested that the victims\u2019 online friends send him money. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">Other times, Golshan allegedly extorted the victims for money and sexually explicit chats to return the victims\u2019 social media accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For example, in December 2021, a Los Angeles-based model and social media influencer identified in court documents as \u201cVictim 1\u201d received a direct message on Instagram from the account owned by one of her friends, stating, \u201cCan you do me a favor? What\u2019s your number?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">Victim 1 provided her phone number to the person she believed was her friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Four hours later, Victim 1 noticed her phone no longer connected to her cellphone network. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">She then received an email from her cellphone carrier stating that her account had been changed from her iPhone to a different one she did not recognize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It took Victim 1 approximately two hours to regain control of her cellphone and she was unable to log into her Instagram account for one day because her password had been changed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14844 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FBI-Logo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FBI-Logo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FBI-Logo-45x35.jpg 45w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FBI-Logo.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>During that time, Golshan allegedly hacked into Victim 1\u2019s Instagram account, posed as Victim 1 and requested cellphone numbers and money from Victim\u2019s friends, collecting approximately $15,000 in illicit gains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In another incident, Golshan allegedly SIM swapped another victim \u2013 identified in court papers as \u201cVictim 3.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">He allegedly took control of her Instagram account, changed its password, and demanded $5,000 from her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">Golshan allegedly later told the victim that he would return her Instagram account to her if she initiated a video call and stripped for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">Other times, Golshan allegedly engaged in other fraudulent schemes on social media. For example, the indictment states that Golshan lied to other Instagram users, claiming that he could provide verified user badges on Instagram for a fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0Golshan allegedly charged the victims hundreds of dollars each for verified badges, knowing he could not provide the verified badges he purported to sell.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If convicted of all charges, Golshan would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each wire fraud count, up to five years in federal prison for each computer hacking-related count, and a mandatory two-year prison sentence for the aggravated identity theft count.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">The FBI is investigating this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9319537173MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assistant U. 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