Monika Konopska

Introduction

Monika Konopska is a former law firm receptionist who was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting blackmail and attempted blackmail against two men she found on the adult website adultwork.com. Her campaign of sextortion was exposed in an exclusive report by RollOnFriday, published on 11 September 2026, which revealed that the woman behind the threats had been working on the front desk of a listed law firm. Posing under false names, she extracted £2,300 from her first victim, used photographs of his family against him and turned up at his home, before her second target ignored her threats and reported her to the police.

Background Information

According to her LinkedIn profile and a former colleague who spoke to RollOnFriday on condition of anonymity, Konopska joined the Colchester office of listed law firm Knights in June 2024. She was employed there as an ‘office host’, handling reception and admin duties.

The record does not state her age, nationality or where she worked before joining Knights. What is documented is the other life described at Colchester Crown Court, where the court heard during her trial earlier in 2026 that she contacted two men she found on the prostitution website adultwork.com in order to extort them.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Posing as a woman called ‘Serena’, Konopska initially requested £40 in petrol money from her first victim, a single man, and told him she was working on behalf of “Romanians”. She then texted him photographs of his two adult children, taken from his Facebook account, and demanded a further £1,000, threatening to “cause a scene” if she was not paid.

The man sent the money, but the demands did not stop. A few weeks later Konopska sent him a photograph of his street, said she was there and claimed she had “spoken with neighbours”. A few minutes later she banged on his door and, while he hid upstairs, pushed a note through his letterbox demanding another £1,000.

She then struck again posing as ‘Bianca’, messaging the same man that ‘Serena’ had been “too soft” and warning him: “I can do serious damage in your life and destroy your reputation”. After extracting a total of £2,300 from him, Konopska moved on to a new target. Her second victim ignored her opening threat, however, and when she messaged him asking if he was “looking forward to consequences”, he reported her to the police.

Public Reaction and Consequences

Officers were able to identify Konopska without much difficulty: she had provided both victims with bank details bearing her real name, and she was recorded on the first victim’s doorbell camera delivering her blackmail note. When questioned, she told police that her messages had been part of a “roleplay”, but she later admitted blackmail and attempted blackmail and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The report does not state the exact date of sentencing.

The case attracted a busy comment thread beneath the article, where readers pondered the incongruity of a law firm receptionist running a blackmail operation and wondered whether the case would prompt regulatory attention. The Solicitors Regulation Authority said it could not comment on individual cases, while Knights did not respond to repeated requests to clarify whether it knew about any of her conduct. The record does not state whether the firm knew of it, and nothing in the report suggests that Knights was implicated in her offending.

Current Status

Konopska has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. The record does not state the date on which she was sentenced or whether she remained in custody when the article was published. When RollOnFriday sought comment, Konopska did not respond, other than by deleting her LinkedIn profile.

No further public statement from her is recorded, and the report does not document any appeal or change to her sentence. The SRA’s inability to comment on individual cases means that the record also does not state whether any regulatory investigation followed.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Her employment at Knights ended before the criminal case concluded: her LinkedIn profile indicated that she left the firm before her trial and was “looking for a new role”. In that profile she had advertised herself with the words: “My approach blends confidence with warmth, because great service isn’t just about how you speak or dress — it’s about how you make people feel”, a sentiment the article observed was no doubt shared by her blackmail targets. She deleted the profile after being approached for comment.

Beyond the loss of her job and her liberty, the record does not state what became of Konopska after sentencing, whether she has since found employment, or the long-term effect of her conviction on her circumstances.

Sources

• RollOnFriday, “Law firm secretary jailed for sextortion”, September 11, 2026. source