Published: Thu 22 Aug 2024
Online sextortion is a form of financial fraud that has become increasingly prevalent over the past year.
In some cases in the UK, US and Australia teenagers have killed themselves after being targeted by cybercriminals, who typically operate out of west Africa or south-east Asia.
The fraudsters seek to extort victims, typically boys, by tricking them into sending intimate pictures of themselves and then demanding money by threatening to release the images online – including to friends and family.
Here is a guide to how sextortion fraudsters work and how to deal with such attacks.
Read the full article at The Guardian.
Telegram’s CEO was arrested in relation to an investigation into an unnamed person involving claims of “complicity” in distributing child sexual abuse material.
The girl sent a photo to a boy in her class before the image and her phone number were added to all-male online chat groups - she later started disappearing before being abused by "unknown men".
