LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A federal choose in Nevada sentenced a person to jail Thursday who extorted and threatened Instagram customers and influencers.
Idriss Qibaa, 28, pleaded responsible in February to fees together with extortion, cash laundering and stalking, information stated. In federal courtroom Thursday, U.S. District Decide Richard F. Boulware II sentenced Qibaa to jail time, plus three years supervised launch, a $75,000 high-quality and $200,000 in restitution.
The FBI arrested Qibaa final summer time, saying that he extorted and threatened prospects and Instagram influencers as a part of an internet enterprise to dam and unlock social media accounts. Qibaa ran the web site Unlocked4life.com and makes use of the names “Dani” and “Unlocked,” paperwork stated.
Qibaa “outlined an extortion scheme” throughout a podcast in 2024, the place he additionally stated he made greater than $600,000 a month via his web site, the FBI stated after his arrest. Through the “No Jumper” podcast, Qibaa described “locking victims” after which “charging the victims to unlock the account,” paperwork stated.
Qibaa later threatened to injure and kill a sufferer’s household, prosecutors stated.
Unlocked4life.com, which state information stated was primarily based in Henderson, marketed it might ban or unban social media accounts on Instagram, Snapchat, Telegram and TikTok, investigators stated.
Qibaa additionally supplied a service to buy digital monitoring and private info.
