UK lawmaker 'manipulated' into giving personal numbers of colleagues in sexting blackmail scam

William Wragg, a senior U.K. lawmaker, fell victim to a honeytrap sexting scam and was scared into giving up the personal phone numbers of some of his colleagues.

Wragg, 36, told The Times that the man had "compromising things" on him and he was "scared" and "manipulated" into giving his colleagues' numbers to the unknown individual he had met on the gay dating app Grindr.

"I gave them some numbers, not all of them," he said. "I got chatting to a guy on an app and we exchanged pictures. We were meant to meet up for drinks, but then didn’t. Then he started asking for numbers of people. I was worried because he had stuff on me. He gave me a WhatsApp number, which doesn’t work now. I’ve hurt people by being weak. I was scared. I’m mortified."