genuinely enjoyed reading this thread. sorry about your discovery.
my dad’s not tech savvy enough to use social media, but he did ring me a while ago asking how to get that West Yorkshire Police browser lock thing off the screen in a panic. I obviously knew what kind of sites he’d been on, but I still asked him anyway “err don’t know”
thing is, I guarantee he’d of paid the £100 they were asking for before he phoned me. I often wonder how much they actually fleeced him for.