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A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face charges in the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide in 2022. Prosecutors allege the scammer posed as a young woman ...
A sextortion scam targeting emails is underway nationwide, in an attempt to coerce payments using threats of embarrassment, according to New York State Police. How does the sextortion scam work?
The Maryland State Police said in a statement on Thursday that reports of one sextortion scam targeting Gmail users surged in August and September. In these scams, someone tells a victim they have ...
Sextortion Scams Targeting Children and Teens. One disturbing scam that's become more prevalent in recent years is a financial sexual extortion, or sextortion, scam.
Sextortion (a portmanteau of sex and extortion) employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim. Sextortion refers to the broad category of sexual exploitation in which abuse of power is the means of coercion, as well as to the category of sexual exploitation in which threatened release of sexual images or ...
The Pegasus Project is an international investigative journalism initiative that revealed governments' espionage on journalists, opposition politicians, activists, business people and others using the private Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli technology and cyber-arms company NSO Group. Pegasus is ostensibly marketed for surveillance of ...
Any child who becomes a victim of the "sextortion" scam should immediately block the account, report it to the social media company and report the contact to the National Center for Missing and ...
In 2021, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 18,000 sextortion-related complaints, with losses of more than $13.6 million.