Category: Sextortion
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Parents, You Need to Talk to Your Teen About Sextortion Scams Before It’s Too Late
Let’s start with a serious question: When’s the last time you talked to your teen about online dangers? Not just the typical “don’t talk to strangers” speech, but the real and growing threat of sextortion scams targeting teenage boys?
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Beware of the Personalized Sextortion Email Scam
(photo) Have you gotten one of those weird, threatening emails that feels just a little too personal? Maybe it even included a photo of your house? Yeah, it’s creepy—and it’s part of a new twist on an old scam: sextortion. Let’s break it down, and more importantly, let’s make sure you don’t fall for it.
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Nigerian Brothers Sentenced in Sextortion Case That Led to Michigan Teen’s Tragic Death
In a deeply tragic case that highlights the growing dangers of online exploitation, two Nigerian brothers were sentenced to 17½ years in federal prison after pleading guilty to running a sextortion scheme that targeted over 100 young men and boys across the United States, including a Michigan teenager who died by suicide.
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Beware of the E-Mail Sextortion Scam
Alright, let’s talk about a scam thats been making the rounds—one that’s designed to scare the living daylights out of you. This scam email claims that the sender has installed malware on an adult website, recorded your screen while you were watching videos, and even captured footage from your webcam. They threaten to release this…
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Victims Speak Out: The Dark Reality of Sextortion
Sextortion is a growing form of online blackmail where a perpetrator coerces victims into providing sexual images or videos, then threatens to share that content publicly if the victim doesn’t meet their demands, which often involve sending money or more explicit material. This manipulative crime leaves many victims feeling trapped, humiliated, and traumatized.
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Beware of the ‘Sextortion’ Scam
On Sunday June 25, 2023, a person on Instagram with the username ‘Sandra_jessi2’ followed me on the Instagram platform. we had a conversation in which she claimed to be an american girl. Later, we swapped our Snapchat users and continued to talk on Snapchat, where things got worse. During our interactions on Snapchat, this person…