Sorority Pledges Tormented, Blackmailed By Facebook Scammer (VIDEO)

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For Florida State University student Ashley Atchison, what started as a normal, friendly Facebook chat has turned into a nightmare.

Atchison, a freshman, was excited to begin her Florida State experience, especially since she received a bid to pledge the sorority Kappa Delta.

However, an in-depth Facebook conversation with someone claiming to be a sorority member soon turned disturbing.

"[The person] asked me what color underwear I was wearing," Atchison told TODAY. "And then they asked me to go even further and ball them up and put them in my mouth."

When Atchison tried to cease contact with the perverted chatter, he or she threatened to reveal her secrets and told Atchison that there were girls outside her door who could "handle her."

According to TODAY, police have no idea who is responsible for the e-mails and chats, and are flummoxed that the perpetrator knows so many details about the women he or she targets. The scammer or scammers have been targeting women not only at Florida State, but at Auburn University, the University of Florida, the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University.

Police say many of the victims have fallen for the scammer's tricks and sent him or her nude photos.

See TODAY's full report below.

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Comments

[cf01]

09:11 PM on 12/05/2010

A Department of Justice study based only on *reported* incidents found that one in five college women are either sexually assaulted or raped by the time they graduate.

The President of Bryn Mawr points out that women are *twice* as likely to major in the sciences when they attend predominantly womens' colleges.

Why so few indeed.

[Rickerman]

12:48 PM on 12/05/2010

Perhaps young women should stop taking naked pictures... Nahhh, never happen.

[John Hammink]

05:59 AM on 12/04/2010

Smart girl not to be duped like so many others. Get your story out. Right on!

[simpson20]

08:40 PM on 12/03/2010

How come the chatter knows many details about her? May be they already know each other, I guess.

[Watt D Fuch]

08:46 PM on 12/03/2010

Her grandpa posted below.

[Max Shaw]

03:51 PM on 12/03/2010

I thought college was supposed to make you wiser.

[mass maritimer]

09:30 AM on 12/03/2010

What a fascinating and compassionate person you must be. Where IS that friend button?

[sydneymoon]

04:29 PM on 12/03/2010

Half-alien is a tro//.

[O K Ali]

01:28 AM on 12/03/2010

After reading about the McDonalds manager who strip searched a female employee because a voice on the phone claiming to be the police told them to, I can't get surprised at the naivety of people today.

[FutureExPat]

01:27 AM on 12/03/2010

LOL- "the messenger seemed to know personal information, like where they lived and their class schedule"... you mean like the type of stuff people post on their facebook page?

[Adam Warrenchak]

12:09 AM on 12/03/2010

"Police say many of the victims have fallen for the scammer's tricks and sent him or her nude photos."

were talking about sorority girls..... they are not known for their intellect. is anyone that surprised that they found out it was a trick AFTER they sent the photos??

[black series]

09:50 PM on 12/02/2010

Spammer knows how to make fun of dumb college people.

[Chi--townfool]

07:58 PM on 12/02/2010

So did she stuff in her mouth before she realized it was trick?

[Broughden]

09:12 PM on 12/02/2010

People want to know! This is important!

[sydneymoon]

05:49 PM on 12/02/2010

I'm sorry, MOST of the girls sent nude pictures?
1. Any soriority asking for nude photos wouldn't be worth joining...period.
2. This should have been be a red flag as something was very wrong.
I'm glad Ashley, who was unsuspecting and a bit naive, didn't go so far as to send the pictures. I cannot believe that the others didn't question it or blew it off as a sorority prank.

[Cananna]

09:32 PM on 12/02/2010

thank you for actually reading the article.

[sydneymoon]

04:28 PM on 12/03/2010

So is your post.

[Cananna]

08:33 PM on 12/03/2010

Except your mom because she lets you live in her basement and play video games all day?

[Chi--townfool]

05:38 PM on 12/02/2010

Sooooo......what color panties was she wearing?

[MG Metiva]

05:40 PM on 12/02/2010

Not in the article.

[MG Metiva]

05:36 PM on 12/02/2010

I noted only SEC schools have had this scam happen. That is weird.

[MG Metiva]

05:39 PM on 12/02/2010

Florida State is in the ACC, my bad. But all of the colleges are in the "Dirty" South.

[Broughden]

03:09 PM on 12/02/2010

Hopefully the police solve this case, so they can tell us how to get sorority college girls to send all of us nude photos of themselves!

[jagator]

03:56 PM on 12/02/2010

I will watch for your face on Nancy Grace and your family reunion on Springer. Tell all those voices in your head....Hello.

[Ginger Bahr]

06:25 PM on 12/02/2010

You tell them Noland. This is such a sad story and we are so thankful nothing worse came from it. Its so sad that like you said more people seem to be intersted in their opions of sorities and Ashley than the people doing this to them. She's a very smart beautiful girl and she's going to be just fine. I agree with you if even 1 person is helped from this that would be amazing. The funny thing is if the losers with all the bad comments had a child grandchild or loved one going through this they would see it in a whole diff perspective... you can let her know all of us in ctown are so proud of her and she looked liked a beautiful young lady today ;)

[Cananna]

04:52 PM on 12/02/2010

creep!

[Broughden]

09:08 PM on 12/02/2010

LOL. har har.