In recent years, with the rapid development of social media, it has become the norm for people to share their lives on these platforms.
Among them, the most eye-catching people must be the stars and Internet celebrities around the world, who intuitively present their flashy and extravagant lives to everyone.
Diamond Jewelry Rolex, Designer Sports Car Private Jet...
In the eyes of many people, this is a naked "show off".
And this undisguised "show off" also makes them prey for criminals.
Six years ago, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room, and about $10 million worth of jewelry was snatched, including her huge diamond engagement ring.
This case shocked the world, but also inspired a lot of imitation crimes, in recent years, more and more celebrities have suffered burglary, some of them have left a deep trauma in the face of gangsters, and some stars have even died tragically at home...
The vast majority of criminals who commit such crimes do not sympathize with their victims, and they feel more relieved than sympathetic.
Because in their view, these celebrities show off their wealth on social platforms, expose so much personal information, and be robbed.
Recently, one of the criminals who robbed Kim Kardashian in 2016 was interviewed by the media.
He is 67-year-old Eunice Abbas, who was held in prison for 22 months after being convicted before being released early on health grounds.
He revealed some background information about the robbery plan, and the 12 robbers in their group were all elderly men in their 60s and 70s, and the entire robbery was basically achieved using Kim Kardashian's social media pages.
They get information about her "very rich" through her pages full of luxury goods and jewelry.
"We knew she was coming for Fashion Week, so we went there and did some reconnaissance and then it was basically certain (the whole operation)."
Eunice said that when they first planned the robbery, they had no idea who Kim Kardashian was.
When he started researching her online, he could easily figure out how rich she was and the kinds of information she exposed.
"I've seen one of her shows where, in the episode 'Walking with Kardashian,' she threw the diamond into the pool. At that time I thought, she has a lot of money, she doesn't care at all. ”
In the eyes of the robber, this may be just a small part of Kim Kardashian's wealth that she "won't care."
But for Kim Kardashian, it was one of the most traumatic experiences of her life, which led directly to a radical change in her lifestyle.
Eunice himself had no doubt that the robbery would inflict deep trauma on the victim, Kim, but he was "not guilty" or "didn't care."
"Since she's throwing money everywhere, I'll collect it, it's as simple as that." Guilty? I don't care. ”
Not only that, he is basically saying that "you show off your wealth just waiting for people to rob and find yourself."
"They (celebrities) should show off a little less to those who can't afford it." For some, this is a provocation. ”
And there are definitely not a few people who think like this, which may also be the reason why celebrities and Internet celebrities have been frequently burglarized in recent years.
Earlier this year, the Beckham family's £40 million house was attacked by masked thieves in a horrific situation.
Because David, Victoria, and their 10-year-old daughter, Little Seven, were all at home, but they didn't realize the robbery had happened.
It was his son Cruz who returned home only to find that a spare bedroom had been looted and that the robbers had taken away thousands of pounds worth of belongings.
Just last month, the mansion of Cow Sister Mariah Carey was also burglarized.
She was vacationing in Italy and the Hamptons, and perhaps it was she who had been posting photos of her vacation on social media before criminals entered her $5.65 million Atlanta mansion to commit theft while she was away from home.
In recent days, three men have been arrested and charged with crimes in connection with the case.
According to foreign media reports, the arrested people are not only responsible for the case, but also for a series of armed robberies, burglaries and burglaries in the Atlanta area, and in one case, even the victim was shot.
The victim of the "Biggest Theft in the UK in 2020" - Tamara Ecclestone, the daughter of the former F1 boss and super celebrity, she is worth up to $3.6 billion, lives in kensington palace gardens, and the next door neighbor is Prince William and Princess Kate's family, definitely one of the richest people in the UK.
She was also on holiday when a £70 million London mansion was broken down.
To be precise, shortly after she posted photos of her daughter and private jet on social media platforms and publicly stated that she was leaving the UK for the Christmas holidays, thieves raided her house and snatched a huge amount of belongings worth 25 million pounds (about 200 million yuan).
In July 2017, while Hillary Duff and her children were on vacation in Canada, thieves broke into her home in Beverly Hills.
According to the report, "Someone broke into the door ... The alarm never sounded", and the thief stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry.
The report speculated that because Hillary had been posting videos and photos of her travels on social media at the time, it could have made her home an easy target for criminals.
There are so many cases of burglary by these celebrities, and the occurrence of the cases is more or less related to their excessive sharing on social media.
Examples like Kim Kardashian and Niu Jie, who have not been physically harmed, are already considered "lucky", and some celebrities have encountered robbers who broke into their homes, so there are also cases of injuries and even tragic deaths.
Kieran Hamilton, a 21-year-old British internet celebrity, was awakened one day in his sleep, thinking that his two dogs were fighting, but he got up to see two men wielding knives screaming at him, asking him for money, drugs and watches.
Kieran, who makes a lot of money as a cryptocurrency trader, has showcased his lavish lifestyle on social platforms: a grand mansion, vacation photos, sports cars, champagne, Rolex, and more.
Therefore, it has received the attention of many netizens, and has also become the target of criminals.
That night, the two criminals came for his money, and when they learned that Kieran had no drugs or cash, they began to beat and stab him with a knife, and he was seriously injured, his arm was cut with a huge hole, and the scene was bloodstained.
At the same time that Kieran was burglarized, Pop Smoke, a 20-year-old American rapper, was shot dead by a masked mob who broke into his home in the early hours of the morning.
A few hours before his death, he posted photos of himself enjoying life by a pool in Beverly Hills on Instagram.
Crimes like this, triggered by posting life photos online, known as "Social Platform Show-Offs" (Insta-Bragging), have become a global problem.
Recently, the media interviewed a criminal who has been committing robbery crimes, and he is a habitual robber of theft and robbery.
At first he robbed the store, but when social media came along, everything changed.
For repeat offenders like them, the rich automatically expose their money, location, and time point of staying in a certain place, which is simply a walking gold mine, and it is not locked.
He also described his crime process, first targeting on social platforms, and celebrity influencers who are famous and often show their jewelry wealth and location are their priority choices.
These influencers are then followed by fake accounts, and then the location of the house is determined by studying their posts.
This location is not as difficult to get as imagined, according to the criminals themselves, some Internet celebrities social media location tags are originally open, and sometimes they can be checked through vehicle registration.
These are almost clear and start to step on the point, look at the nightclub they go to play, put a locator under their car, determine the time pattern of their home and leave home, and basically can act.
In the Kardashian robbery, a group of 60- and 70-year-old men can figure out how to rob one of the world's most famous Internet celebrities through social media, which is enough to make us wary of the danger of excessive exposure of personal information on social media.
The emergence of social media is a kind of "industry subversion" for criminals, who can easily find almost undefended targets, quickly start, and have no sense of guilt, feeling that these rich Internet celebrities are robbed.
Celebrity influencers are not unaware of the dangers involved, especially those who post a lot of content online every day, but this is already their main means of survival, so even if they know that there is danger, it is difficult to truly "quit" social media.
For ordinary people, these cases, while terrible, all seem far away.
But it turns out that the scope of victims of social platform-related crimes has expanded, from the world's most famous rich people such as Kim Kardashian and Niu Jie, to ordinary Internet celebrities like Kieran, who have made a little money and are generally well-known, will become the targets of crime.
Ordinary people are also at great risk, according to a 2018 report in which researchers questioned more than 2,000 British adults and found that 1 in 12 Britons reported burglary after posting on social media, with more than half admitting that they had opened the location hashtag on social platforms.
Another survey found that 78 percent of thieves use social media as a tracking method to see what they want to target.
From the world's richest people to Internet celebrities to ordinary people, as long as they are sharing their lives on social media, they will be more or less at risk of being tracked by people with hearts.
The occurrence of crime is definitely the responsibility of criminals, but gentlemen do not stand under the dangerous wall, if it is not like Internet celebrities to make a living, to rely on social platforms to make money, we still try to expose personal information and location on social media, otherwise it is really invincible.