Two women Bulgarian students find hidden cameras in apartment near Westchase
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[TD="width: 124"]*Vanya Samokovareva, 22, left, and roommate Ralitsa Dzhambazova, 23, stand in front of a *shower in their apartment where a camera was aimed.*
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TAMPA — The tiny cameras were hidden in smoke detectors and motion sensors, placed in the bedrooms and bathrooms of a west Hillsborough apartment.
Late Monday, two Bulgarian women discovered the covert cameras in their apartment. And now the Bulgarian students are afraid their every move — from sleeping to showering — may have been broadcast on the Internet.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is investigating and says detectives have recovered some equipment and are following several leads.
However, between Tuesday night — when a report about the episode appeared on Bay News 9 — and Wednesday morning when detectives returned, some of the electronic equipment was removed, said sheriff's spokesman Larry McKinnon.
The women didn't answer their door Wednesday, but in an interview Tuesday with Bay News 9 said their landlord has a key to the apartment.
The Sheriff's Office declined to name any suspects.
Vanya Samokovareva, 22, and Ralitsa Dzhambazova, 23, have lived in the apartment near Westchase for three months, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Dzhambazova, a student from Sofia, Bulgaria, said they both found an employer through Sky Travel, a Bulgarian company that helps students travel abroad for the summer to improve their English. The company finds students an employer and then obtains travel documents including visas for a $1,000 fee, Dzhambazova said.
Samokovareva said their employer sub-leased them the apartment. They did modeling in an ad campaign for a pizza place and a delivery business.
"We wore superhero costumes and things like that," Dzhambazova said.
That job ended, and both girls were able to find work at Wing House to continue to fund their summer abroad.
"We had to buy all the furniture," Dzhambazova said of the sparsely furnished apartment.
When they first moved into the apartment, the two women joked that the wired devices might be cameras, Dzhambazova said. But they believed for weeks that the devices truly were smoke detectors and security devices.
That belief was shattered when one of their former roommates, a man, took down one of the devices and entered the serial number in an online search. The results showed tiny cameras, just like the one in his hand.
"I was shocked," Dzhambazova told Bay News 9. "This is terrible. I never expected that this would happen to me and my friend."
Immediately, the group followed the wires to a locked closet and broke the lock. Inside, deputies say, they found an electronic box and something that appeared to be a WiFi device.
The Sheriff's Office is investigating where the images may have gone and aren't sure yet if they were displayed online or were sent to a remote location, McKinnon said. Investigators also will try to trace the cameras' ownership through serial numbers.
The women disabled the cameras. They say they plan to stay in the apartment through the end of the month and then move elsewhere.
Dzhambazova said they reported the incident to the international agency that arranged their trip and also to Sky Travel.
"Many students from Europe came for the summer to travel and improve their language. They're just students and somebody needs to protect them and to be responsible for them and check with the employers," she said. "I don't know how else to help students."
Times news researcher John Martin and staff writers Robbyn Mitchell and Marissa Lang contributed to this report. Jessica Vander Velde can be reached at (813) 226-3433 or jvandervelde@sptimes.com.
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Smoke detectors? Wut.
woah wait what
[quote]Dzhambazova, a student from Sofia, Bulgaria, said they both found an employer through Sky Travel, a Bulgarian company that helps students travel abroad for the summer to improve their English. The company finds students an employer and then obtains travel documents including visas for a $1,000 fee, Dzhambazova said.[/quote]
They're lucky they picked a good company otherwise they'd be working in a "massage parlor" right now.
Edit:
That wasn't supposed to be funny you assholes :(
We need this footage asap.
We're going to investigate some leads and shit, so we need video.
:q:
Oh sweet baby Jesus I hope they saved everything.
[QUOTE=MR-X;31430387]We need this footage asap.
We're going to investigate some lead and shit, so we need video.[/QUOTE]
Yes.
"*knocks on door* Excuse me ladies *cough* I'm an, uh, amateur detective with a degree in psychology. I want to review your footage and I believe that I can find out who it is by getting into the, uh, mind of the camera placer by studying the video for several hours."
What cunts the-
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Where did they save the tapes? For burning and stuff.
hehe i can see why
I read it as Burglar.
But this is much more kinky.
I wonder if there's software that superimposes a paper bag over certain parts of images. They could, perhaps, locate the perpetrator by tracking down such software and sale of the particular camera used.
I'd also like to review the tapes and follow up some leads of my own...
Fuck now I have nothing to watch.
If I was a hot girl I'd show it off for money often.
I guess I'd be a whore then.
A rich one though
Damn it they're on to me.
I put $30 it was the scum-ass landlord.
Just the fact that they went missing after they were found doubles my suspicion.
I'd enjoy seeing those videos...but that's just plain mean because the girls didn't give their consent. No one deserves to be spied on by some scumbag and live in fear of your every move being watched.
[QUOTE=RBM11;31431079]Yes.
"*knocks on door* Excuse me ladies *cough* I'm an, uh, amateur detective with a degree in psychology. I want to review your footage and I believe that I can find out who it is by getting into the, uh, mind of the camera placer by studying the video for several hours."[/QUOTE]
All I need is 3 minutes
Woah, I want to come into possession of those videos.
But in all seriousness, I'd know something is up for having a smoke detector in the corner of my bathroom. It says (found this out when trying to get mine to stop beeping after the power went out) not to put in or near bathrooms or in the corner. Literally, it said that.
Bathrooms cause steam would cause it to go off, and corner because, no idea...
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;31447216]Woah, I want to come into possession of those videos.
But in all seriousness, I'd know something is up for having a smoke detector in the corner of my bathroom. It says (found this out when trying to get mine to stop beeping after the power went out) not to put in or near bathrooms or in the corner. Literally, it said that.
Bathrooms cause steam would cause it to go off, and corner because, no idea...[/QUOTE]
Don't put them in the corner because they need to be somewhere that smoke is guaranteed to hit them in the event of a fire
[QUOTE=MIPS;31437120]I put $30 it was the scum-ass landlord.
Just the fact that they went missing after they were found doubles my suspicion.[/QUOTE]This arouses something with me too but it's not my suspicion.
Makes you wonder how many cameras like these are still hidden in hotels and stuff all over the world.
Why is it that Bulgaria, Romania, and the Czech Republic have the hottest "normal" women?
Only in Bulgar.. Ameri.. I don't even know.
Can't blame the land lord for doing that. Mighty good looking tenants.
Still pretty fucked up though, especially seeing as he's got a camera aimed directly at the shower.
Wasn't expecting some bulgarians to be hot.
[QUOTE=RopaDope;31454895]Wasn't expecting some bulgarians to be hot.[/QUOTE]Their bodies, for sure, but I could do with the heads being replaced with hotter versions.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;31450392]Why is it that Bulgaria, Romania, and the Czech Republic have the hottest "normal" women?[/QUOTE]
Because of people fucking their sisters, and using too much make up
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