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Sextortion scams targeting kids have increased in recent years, the FBI says The FBI has warned that sexual extortion schemes are increasingly targeting underage boys and leading to an alarming ...
Anyone concerned that they are a victim of sextortion or identity theft, call your local FBI office or 1‐800‐CALL‐FBI. The New York State Police or other local law enforcement agencies can ...
Financial sextortion has been reported as the fastest-growing crime targeting children in North America. According to reports by the FBI, Federal Trade Commission and Network Contagion Research ...
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.
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 ...
In the six-month period from October 2022 to March 2023, the FBI observed at least a 20% increase in reporting of financially motivated sextortion incidents involving minor victims compared to the ...
South Carolina state Rep. Brandon Guffey holds a picture of his son Gavin Guffey, 17, who died by suicide after he was entrapped in a sexual extortion scam on Instagram, at the Senate Judiciary ...
Between October 2022 and March 2023, the FBI "observed an increase in reporting of financially motivated sextortion incidents involving minor victims compared to the same period the previous year ...