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Summary MP Luke Evans reveals he received explicit content in personal messages, following senior Conservative MP William Wragg's disclosures earlier this week.

Content <p>British Conservative member of parliament Luke Evans revealed that he’s among the U.K. politicians targeted in the sexting scandal first reported by <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-naked-photos-phishing-attacks-mps-staff/">POLITICO</a> on Tuesday.</p> <p>Evans is the second parliamentarian to go public about receiving alluring personal messages and explicit images, following senior Conservative MP William Wragg — who <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/westminster-honey-trap-scandal-uk-tory-mp-admits-sharing-numbers/">admitted</a> on Thursday that he gave some phone numbers to a man he met on the dating app Grindr who had “<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/westminster-honey-trap-scandal-extremely-troubling-says-treasury-minister-gareth-davies/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.politico.eu/article/westminster-honey-trap-scandal-extremely-troubling-says-treasury-minister-gareth-davies/">compromising things on me</a>.” </p> <p>Evans appears to be the lawmaker who first alerted authorities to the phishing attacks.</p> <p>“A month ago,” Evans said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/964748515251154" target="_blank">a video</a> posted on Facebook on Friday, “I was a victim of cyber flashing and malicious communications and blew the whistle by reporting it to the police and the parliamentary authorities as soon as this happened.”</p> <p>The MP then told the story of the first suspicious message he received while he was with his wife: “I got a one-time open photo on WhatsApp of an explicit image of a naked lady.”</p> <p>“The next day I reported it to the police, the authorities and the chief whip,” he explained.</p> <p>The second set of malicious messages came 10 days later. This time the politician was with his team, “so we were able to record the conversation and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/drlukeevansmp" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.facebook.com/drlukeevansmp" target="_blank">catch photos and videos</a> of the messages coming through including another explicit female image.”</p> <p>Evans also explained why he didn&#8217;t go public until now. “I wanted it to be private because it’s an ongoing police investigation [that has] been ongoing for a month,” he said.</p> <p>Earlier this week, Leicestershire Police and London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/westminster-online-scam-police-launch-inquiry-into-uk-parliament-honey-trap-scandal/">confirmed</a> they were investigating reports of malicious communications.</p> <p>Since the scandal broke, “I’ve been hounded by journalists asking me about it. It’s not too difficult to work out, there are only a few Leicestershire MPs,” Evans added.</p> <p>“I’m just pleased I blew the whistle, reported it to the authorities and it’s now being looked into,” he said.</p> <p>POLITICO previously reported how a serving minister plus multiple MPs, party staffers and political journalists were among those <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-naked-photos-phishing-attacks-mps-staff/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-naked-photos-phishing-attacks-mps-staff/">who received unsolicited messages</a> — sometimes called a&nbsp;“spear phishing attack”— from two suspicious mobile numbers sent by users calling themselves “Abi” or “Charlie.”</p> <p>William Wragg, chairman of the Commons public administration committee, was the first to publicly confirm being a victim of the phishing scandal. He also admitted to having given phone numbers to the perpetrator after being threatened.</p> <p>More than 10 men are known to have received messages, with at least five reporting them to the Parliamentary Security Department, but the true number targeted <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-westminster-honey-trap-scandal-naked-pictures-whatsapp-phishing-mps-takeaways/">may never be known</a>.</p>

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Hidden blurb --- !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::RSSEntry published: 2024-04-06 16:49:19.000000000 Z carlessian_info: news_filer_version: 2 newspaper: Politico EU macro_region: Europe entry_id: !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::GloballyUniqueIdentifier is_perma_link: 'false' guid: https://www.politico.eu/?post_type=article&p=4550757 title: Second UK Tory lawmaker says he was targeted in honey trap sexting scandal categories: - Apps - British politics - Communications - European politics - Mobile - Parliament - Security - Politics content: |2 <p>British Conservative member of parliament Luke Evans revealed that he’s among the U.K. politicians targeted in the sexting scandal first reported by <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-naked-photos-phishing-attacks-mps-staff/">POLITICO</a> on Tuesday.</p> <p>Evans is the second parliamentarian to go public about receiving alluring personal messages and explicit images, following senior Conservative MP William Wragg — who <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/westminster-honey-trap-scandal-uk-tory-mp-admits-sharing-numbers/">admitted</a> on Thursday that he gave some phone numbers to a man he met on the dating app Grindr who had “<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/westminster-honey-trap-scandal-extremely-troubling-says-treasury-minister-gareth-davies/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.politico.eu/article/westminster-honey-trap-scandal-extremely-troubling-says-treasury-minister-gareth-davies/">compromising things on me</a>.” </p> <p>Evans appears to be the lawmaker who first alerted authorities to the phishing attacks.</p> <p>“A month ago,” Evans said in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/964748515251154" target="_blank">a video</a> posted on Facebook on Friday, “I was a victim of cyber flashing and malicious communications and blew the whistle by reporting it to the police and the parliamentary authorities as soon as this happened.”</p> <p>The MP then told the story of the first suspicious message he received while he was with his wife: “I got a one-time open photo on WhatsApp of an explicit image of a naked lady.”</p> <p>“The next day I reported it to the police, the authorities and the chief whip,” he explained.</p> <p>The second set of malicious messages came 10 days later. This time the politician was with his team, “so we were able to record the conversation and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/drlukeevansmp" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.facebook.com/drlukeevansmp" target="_blank">catch photos and videos</a> of the messages coming through including another explicit female image.”</p> <p>Evans also explained why he didn&#8217;t go public until now. “I wanted it to be private because it’s an ongoing police investigation [that has] been ongoing for a month,” he said.</p> <p>Earlier this week, Leicestershire Police and London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/westminster-online-scam-police-launch-inquiry-into-uk-parliament-honey-trap-scandal/">confirmed</a> they were investigating reports of malicious communications.</p> <p>Since the scandal broke, “I’ve been hounded by journalists asking me about it. It’s not too difficult to work out, there are only a few Leicestershire MPs,” Evans added.</p> <p>“I’m just pleased I blew the whistle, reported it to the authorities and it’s now being looked into,” he said.</p> <p>POLITICO previously reported how a serving minister plus multiple MPs, party staffers and political journalists were among those <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-naked-photos-phishing-attacks-mps-staff/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-naked-photos-phishing-attacks-mps-staff/">who received unsolicited messages</a> — sometimes called a&nbsp;“spear phishing attack”— from two suspicious mobile numbers sent by users calling themselves “Abi” or “Charlie.”</p> <p>William Wragg, chairman of the Commons public administration committee, was the first to publicly confirm being a victim of the phishing scandal. He also admitted to having given phone numbers to the perpetrator after being threatened.</p> <p>More than 10 men are known to have received messages, with at least five reporting them to the Parliamentary Security Department, but the true number targeted <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-westminster-honey-trap-scandal-naked-pictures-whatsapp-phishing-mps-takeaways/">may never be known</a>.</p> summary: MP Luke Evans reveals he received explicit content in personal messages, following senior Conservative MP William Wragg's disclosures earlier this week. rss_fields: - title - url - summary - author - categories - published - entry_id - content url: https://www.politico.eu/article/second-uk-tory-mp-targeted-honey-trap-sexting-scandal/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication author: Tommaso Lecca

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