Swedish Pop Culture 2012 - Alexandramannen

This amusing sounding oxymoron (Alexandra = woman’s name, mannen = the man) is not very pleasant at all. In fact, he made life miserable for many young women whom he raped or sexually molested. While pretending to be a glamorous female prostitute a’la Pretty Woman in online forums and chats, he hoaxed very young girls into taking their clothes off in front of the web camera or meeting “a friend who looks good and is super nice” (ie himself) in person, where he forced them to perform sexual acts. The case became Sweden’s to date largest web-based crime and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2006.