Sextortion on the rise

News Boys Art and Entertainment LGBT+ RSOL Politics Science, Technology, Health Current events Deaths Sextortion on the rise by Staff Writer - 2022 In a not so shocking turn of events, cybercriminals have taken a page out of law enforcement's play book and are now using the same techniques that are used to entrap minor attracted people on young males and tricking them into providing sexually compromising information that is later used to blackmail them. The latter of these two abhorrent practices, it is called Sextortion. In recent weeks, numerous news stories have appeared about Ryan Last, a 17-year-old high school student who sent explicit pictures to a person he believed to be a teenage girl. Unable to pay the demands of the blackmailer, Ryan Last killed himself rather then face public humiliation. This is an all to familiar scenario within the Boylove community. These methods have been used for years by law enforcement and so-called "Pedo-hunters", online vigilantes seeking to entrap people in compromising and embarrassing situations. This has resulted in numerous deaths by suicide, certainly hundreds and perhaps even thousands. It is unknown how many police officers and cyber-vigilantes have collected this information for the purposes of blackmail, as no one has been willing to come forward and admit that they were a victim of such a crime because of both the legal and social consequences. https://www.voanews.com/a/u-s-warns-of-rise-in-sextortion-schemes-targeting-teen-boys-/6882838.html https://theappeal.org/online-child-sex-stings-protect-act/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11558229/Sextortionist-drove-17-year-old-suicide-gets-arrested-victims-mom-appears-tv.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/politics/justice-department-sextortion/index.html https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sextortion