In 2025, Balkan Insight and the Czech newsroom Page Not Found published an investigation into the hidden business behind OnlyFans management agencies. The reporting showed how the promise of easy online income, modelling opportunities and professional social media support could turn into a system of control over young women’s intimate content, accounts and earnings.
The investigation revealed that women associated with OnlyFans management agencies had experienced predatory recruitment practices, emotional manipulation, pressure to produce increasingly explicit content, loss of access to their accounts, unpaid earnings, and contracts containing strict production obligations and substantial financial penalties.
The Czech part of the investigation focused on REACH OUT, an agency run by influencer Adam Kajumi. The newsroom reviewed multiple contracts connected to the agency. They showed recurring mechanisms: access to women’s social media and pay per view platform accounts, control over payments, confidentiality clauses, production quotas, high penalties and claims over income even after cooperation ended. Some contracts required the agency’s bank details to be inserted into accounts used to sell content. This meant money from the platforms could first flow to the agency, which would then pay the women. One contract required a model to deliver twenty photographs, four videos and four Instagram stories every week. The same agreement included penalties of 500,000 Czech crowns for failing to provide documents needed to calculate commission or for breaching confidentiality.
Women also described how the pressure could begin before any contract was signed. A central pattern in the case is the alleged use of the so called lover boy method, in which romantic or intimate dependency is used to push women towards sexual exploitation. Several women described relationships, promises, emotional pressure or semi romantic dynamics that gradually moved them towards producing sexual content.
In May 2026, detectives from the Czech National Centre Against Organised Crime, an elite police unit investigating serious organised crime, arrested four people linked to REACH OUT. Kajumi is now in pre trial detention. Three other people connected to the agency are being prosecuted while free. All four are accused of human trafficking and offences linked to organised sexual exploitation. If convicted, they face between five and twelve years in prison.
According to police, the group recruited young women, often shortly after they turned eighteen, through deceit and manipulation. Investigators say that the accused exploited the women's inexperience, trust, immaturity, and difficult social or economic circumstances. Having gained their confidence, the police say they then persuaded the women to create erotic photographs and videos, as well as signing representation contracts for social media and subscription platforms — most often OnlyFans. The police say that the women usually did not have access to the accounts that were created using their personal information. The content was then sold to subscribers, and the women were allegedly pressured into creating more explicit and profitable material through psychological manipulation. This pressure allegedly included threats of contractual penalties and withholding payments.
Investigators say the group recruited dozens of women in this way and generated at least 3.6 million Czech crowns (approx. €149,000) in proven proceeds. Authorities seized assets worth around 9 million Czech crowns during the investigation. The case is one of the first in Europe in which an OnlyFans management agency is being investigated for suspected organised human trafficking. It shows how digital sexual exploitation can be built not only through physical coercion, but also through control over passwords, payment flows, contracts, online audiences and emotional dependency.
For the women who spoke to reporters, the investigation may now become a path towards justice. What was once presented as influencer entrepreneurship is now being investigated by organised crime detectives as suspected human trafficking and organised sexual exploitation.
This impact piece was written by Apolena Rychlikova.
The From Onlyfans to Onlyscams investigation has been conducted by Apolena Rychlíková, Kristina Böhmer, Mayya Chernobylskaya, Vânia Maia and Polina Bachlakova.
