The digital threat

Erica was a student like many others, with a big dream: to become a professional influencer. Partly out of fun and partly out of curiosity, her passion for social media had led her to share small pieces of her daily routine online. Erica felt safe in her virtual bubble, surrounded by friends and adoring followers who overwhelmed her with compliments and showered her with gifts. But one day, everything changed when she started receiving strange messages, which gradually became more and more unsettling and threatening, from an unknown user called DigitalGoblin_. If you don’t give me access to your premium content, I will publish all your secrets online.At first, Erica thought it was just another troll… until a phone number appeared: it was hers, along with a message from the troll inviting the entire chat to contact her. Erica, or LovelySara as she preferred to be called online, felt frozen and confused and couldn’t understand how he had gotten hold of that information. Erica immediately deleted the post, but not before reporting and blocking DigitalGoblin_, hoping that this would put an end to the situation.