Tell us: have you been affected by sexual extortion? | Society




The Guardian has been reporting on the sharp rise in financially motivated sexual extortion – commonly known as “sextortion”.

Teenage boys and young adult males are often the targets, duped into sharing intimate images of themselves with a stranger who then threatens to share those images online unless they pay up.

Law enforcement agencies report that the perpetrators are most usually loosely organised cyber-criminal gangs based overseas.

Tragically, a number of young men in the UK, as well as the US and Australia, have taken their own lives after being targeted in this way.

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Posted: 2024-08-03 17:57:21

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