A BRITISH teen took his own life after falling for a sextortion scam run by a crime ring in West Africa, an inquest heard.

‘Sextortion’ or webcam blackmail is an example of organised digital crime, and research indicates that it has increased during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The term sextortion is a ...

Elijah Heacock was a vibrant teen who made people smile. He "wasn't depressed, he wasn't sad, he wasn't angry," father John Burnett told CBS Saturday Morning. But when Elijah received a threatening ...

British teenage boys are being blackmailed by Nigerian crime gangs posing as young women in a surge of online sexual extortion. Criminals are targeting boys as young as 14 on social media – tricking ...

One of the most pervasive yet overlooked forms of digital blackmail that targets teen boys ranging from 14-17 years of age is sextortion. Internet scams have come a long way from emails of ...

Cai Davies, from Pontypridd, had been targeted by a sextortion blackmail scam carried out by a 'large scale operation' in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These teenage boys were victims of financial sextortion and later died by suicide. Pictured: Gavin Guffey, Riley Basford, Braden ...

The Australian eSafety Commissioner recently launched a new campaign to raise awareness of sexual extortion, or “sextortion”. Targeted primarily at men, the campaign features AI-generated videos of ...

If you or someone you know is dealing with suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or text "Hopeline" to the National Crisis Text Line at 741-741. Sextortion isn't a ...

High school senior James Woods was obsessed with comics. He could quote every episode of “The Flash,” idolized the superhero Green Arrow and often sported a Naruto-inspired headband he insisted helped ...

JAGATSINGHPUR: Jagatsinghpur police on Friday arrested two brothers for allegedly subjecting women and girls to blackmailing and sextortion. The accused are Biswaranjan Nayak (24) of Ichhapur and his ...

Students are being urged not to suffer in silence when targeted by scams on dating apps, as investigators see blackmail cases rise. Fraud teams at Nationwide, the UK's biggest building society, said ...