Online blackmail scams are utilizing your public information ... - CBS News
Sep 4, 2024 · A blackmail email scam relies on public information, using a person's name, address and even a street view image of where they live.
Extortion and Blackmail - The New York Times
News about Extortion and Blackmail, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Teen sextortion growing, FBI says; parents on mission, son dead
Sep 22, 2024 · MILWAUKEE - The Federal Bureau of Investigation said sextortion is a growing blackmail crime that affects thousands of teens every year. Now, two parents are on a mission to educate the public...
US seeks to stop citizens' data exploitation for blackmail, …
Jan 23 (Reuters) - The United States plans to announce a new executive order to seek to prevent foreign adversaries from accessing troves of highly sensitive personal data about Americans and...
Feds warn of "staggering" sextortion scam that has targeted ... - CBS News
Dec 19, 2022 · Washington — More than 3,000 teenagers and young boys have been blackmailed online in what federal law enforcement officials called a "staggering" sextortion scam that has been tied to more than...
Huge blackmail and corruption trial opens in Spain - BBC News
Oct 13, 2021 · Jose Manuel Villarejo, 70, is accused of secretly recording conversations with top businesspeople to blackmail them or destroy their reputations for other wealthy clients.
Cybercriminals Target Children with Sexually Explicit Blackmail ... - NPR
Jun 20, 2024 · A growing number of children in the U.S. are being targeted in sextortion schemes— a scam in which a cybercriminal obtains and then threatens to release nude or sexually compromising photos ...
'Sextortion' study: Men at higher risk for online blackmail in ... - UPI
Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Men have been twice as likely as women to fall victim to online blackmail since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study published Monday by the journal Victims & Offenders...
Huge blackmail and corruption trial opens in Spain - BBC
Oct 13, 2021 · Jose Manuel Villarejo, 70, is accused of secretly recording conversations with top businesspeople to blackmail them or destroy their reputations for other wealthy clients.
Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes - BBC
A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across India and other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. At least 60 Indians have killed themselves after ...