Embarrassed porn users paid a fortune to ‘The King’

A cyber criminal known as ‘The King’ who made £500,000 by threatening porn website users with bogus criminal charges is facing years behind bars. Zain Qaiser, 24, cooked up an elaborate scam to plant adverts infected with malware on porn sites, to allow him hack into his victim’s computers. He installed browser locking software to freeze the user’s screen, followed by a message informing them criminal proceedings would be initiated if they refused to pay a fee. The computer science…