Man Sentenced to 17 Years for Global Sextortion Scheme Targeting Children
A 29-year-old Australian man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for orchestrating a terrifying global sex blackmail scheme that targeted hundreds of victims across 20 countries, the majority of whom were children under the age of 16. Ars Technical Reports Muhammad Zain-ul-Abidin Rasheed, who now lives in Australia, has been sentenced to 17 […]
Grief-stricken father launches personal crusade to help FBI find suspects whose sextortion plot led to son’s suicide
When a young man who was the victim of sex blackmail for money committed suicide last year, his grieving father launched a campaign to help the FBI track down the suspected fraudster on another continent. of FBI Financial sextortion is defined as “when an offender poses as someone else online and coerces a victim into […]
Meta deletes 63K Instagram accounts tied to ‘sextortion’ schemes
Meta announced on Wednesday that it had removed about 63,000 Nigerian Instagram accounts that were operating a “sex blackmail” scam targeting mostly adult men and some children in the United States. Scammers used “sextortion” tactics on Instagram and Facebook, threatening to make explicit sexual photos and messages to users unless they received payment. Among those […]
Blaze News investigates: Online predators are using artificial intelligence to force children into sextortion scams, says digital expert
Digital safety experts say the threat posed by online predators targeting children is only growing with the advent of artificial intelligence. As smartphones become more powerful and faster, social media use has exploded, but so have the risks of addiction, overuse, and threats from online predators. “Many victims, including minors, are unaware that their images […]
Ohio couple’s son, 17, got over 200 Instagram messages in 19-hour sextortion ‘nightmare’ that led to suicide
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Chicago man sent dozens of sextortion victims, family members threatening messages: court docs
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Man Arrested For Alleged Sextortion Of 9 Young Girls
Police in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, arrested a man after he posed as a teenage boy on social media and blackmailed nine girls, soliciting obscene photos from them, FOX29 reported. Jonathan Brodeck, 21, is accused of befriending nine girls as young as 12 on Snapchat and Instagram and sexually blackmailing them. Fox 29. Investigators allege Brodecki used […]
REPORT: Suspects Openly Sell ‘Sextortion’ Guides On Social Media As Number Of Child Victims Spikes
Suspected criminals are selling “sextortion” guides on social media as children and teenagers increasingly fall prey to sexual blackmail schemes, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported Tuesday. The guides teach would-be scammers how to masquerade online as young women and hoodwink a victim into sending sexually explicit content, which the suspects would then use to […]
How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams? – podcast | News
On the night of December 29th, 16-year-old Murray Dawei was at home with his family in Dunblane, Scotland. As they sat together and watched TV, Murray talked with his friends about saving money for summer vacation. Around 9:30 p.m., he went up to his bedroom. “That was the last time I saw him alive,” he […]
Instagram blocks nude images in DMs to mitigate ‘sextortion’ crimes reaching record numbers
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Instagram recently announced that the photo and video sharing platform popular with young users will be moving to combat sexual extortion, or sextortion, a crime that continues to victimize more […]