25 days ago | By Bésame
The FBI is noticing a recent uptick in reports of adults posing as girls to receive sexual images of boys and then blackmailing them for money.
It's a growing victim subset of a scheme the feds call “sextortion,” or using compromising images and videos obtained online to extort the victim. In total, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, received 18,000 sextortion-related complaints last year, totalling more than $13.6 million in losses.
“Predators who ask for sexually explicit photos, videos, and then money to terrorize young victims with threats of posting their images online...
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