We’ve seen cases where the person who gets them may post them after a break up or threaten to post them and blackmail the ...

(WFRV) – Due to recent instances, police in Wisconsin are offering tips to the public on how to protect themselves against falling victim to sextortion. According to a release from the Plymouth Police ...

A dad was left feeling “sick and angry” after making a horrifying discovery on his son’s phone — as it points to a growing problem in Australia. Matty Acton, from Brisbane radio show Stav, Abby & Matt ...

A Southern California police department is warning the public about a sextortion scheme in which victims are blackmailed over ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the arrest of four men in West Africa for their roles in an international "sextortion" scheme that targeted thousands of victims, ...

(WXMI) — An 18-year-old in Hart became a victim of sextortion after sending nude photos to someone he met online who then demanded money to keep the images private. Instead of paying the ransom, the ...

A presentation to educate parents and teens about online dangers will come to the Grand Theater on Wednesday, April 30.

A newly introduced bill would require that Michigan students in grades six through 12 learn about sextortion. Sextortion involves threatening or coercing a person into sending explicit photos.

The FBI is drawing attention to an upsurge in an online scam that's led some young victims to kill themselves. Under the "financially motivated sextortion schemes," criminals pose on social media ...

Cases of sextortion -- conning teens to share explicit images online and then using the images for blackmail -- have so far this year already passed the number of incidents reported in the state in ...

A high school student in Pennsylvania is facing hundreds of felony sex crime charges after police uncovered a sextortion scheme targeting other teenagers. Zachariah Abraham Meyers, an 18-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Tuesday, FBI Jacksonville, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, and the Duval County Schools Police Department held a ...