Being a Blackmail Fixer and dealing with victims at some of the lowest points in their lives is not solely about preventing exposure.
It is also about getting the client through the scam emotionally.
Blackmail victimization puts you on a razor’s edge.
You jump every time your phone rings.
A text message makes your stomach drop.
Even a wrong number can send you into a tailspin.
That is the emotional panic behind affair blackmail.
And it does not disappear overnight.
In some situations, the fear becomes even worse when the blackmailer lives in the same city.
Now there is proximity.
The victim starts wondering:
Will they show up at my house?
Will they come to my office?
Will they approach my spouse?
Will I see them in public?
One case I worked involved a blackmailer who started sending photographs of the client’s wife.
She was shopping at the supermarket.
Walking around town.
Standing in her driveway.
The blackmailer never approached her.
But that was not the point.
And it worked.
The client lived in a state of terror for months.
People often think blackmail is about money.
The money is only part of it.
The emotional panic can be just as destructive.
If you need help ending an extramarital affair, stopping infidelity blackmail, or dealing with exposure threats, I step in, take over communications, face the threat head on, and work to prevent your nightmare from becoming reality.
Frank M. Ahearn is The Blackmail Fixer and author of “Blackmail Survival Manual: 10 Rules Before You Pay or Panic.“