Sextortion

Guernsey hit by 'sharp rise' in sextortion cases
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Guernsey
Posted
29 November
Stop terrorising children with sextortion, say parents
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Scotland
Posted
18 November
Man jailed for three years over Snapchat sextortion
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Northern Ireland
Posted
11 November
Instagram defends new teen safety features after criticism
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Technology
Posted
18 October
‘I thought my life was over’: Escaping the sextortion scammers
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UK
Posted
12 September
Man posing as YouTube star jailed for global sextortion
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Australia
Posted
28 August
The Global Story. Sextortion: 'In six hours, my son was dead' Audio, 27 minutes
How Nigerian scammers blackmail teens worldwide
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Meta releases 'sextortion' data after mum's criticism
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Scotland
Posted
6 June
'Sextortion guides' sold on social media, BBC finds
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London
Posted
29 May
Pupils get rare alert over dangers of sextortion
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UK
Posted
29 April
Instagram trying nudity blurring to stop 'sextortion'
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Technology
Posted
11 April
'I sent a nude and was blackmailed for money'
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Wales
Posted
16 November 2023
Boys as young as 13 targeted in sextortion scams
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Scotland
Posted
12 September 2023
I'm a sextortion victim but it didn't end my world
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Northern Ireland
Posted
8 September 2023
The Documentary Podcast. Somebody is watching me. Audio, 28 minutes
How misogyny and tech have made South Korea the digital sex crime capital of the world
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
FBI warns of explosion in sextortion cases
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US & Canada
Posted
20 December 2022
Alert over sextortion criminals targeting children
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Sussex
Posted
26 October 2022
Young children being targeted in sextortion cases
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Gloucestershire
Posted
21 September 2022
Bad People. 41. 666devil: Could anyone become a victim of sextortion? Audio, 28 minutes
Matt Falder blackmailed over 40 victims online into sexual acts.
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BBC Radio 5 Live
Available for over a year
Stacey Dooley. Investigates, Spycam Sex Criminals. Video, 40 minutes
Investigating South Korea’s new sex crime, where stolen camera footage is used as DIY porn
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BBC Three
Available for 3 months
'Manipulative' Snapchat blackmailer jailed
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Essex
Posted
5 January 2021
Scammers target more than 40 people in NI in two days
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Northern Ireland
Posted
19 April 2020
'Sextortion botnet spreads 30,000 emails an hour’
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Technology
Posted
16 October 2019
Sextortion victims 'can be teens or pensioners'
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Northern Ireland
Posted
2 October 2019