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 takes a page out of law enforcement's play book and are now using the techniques 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. 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