The internet has made communication faster, easier, and more personal than ever. It has also created new ways for criminals ...

WDBJ7 investigates the growing online financially motivated extortion scam known as 'Sextortion' ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - It’s one of the fastest-growing online crimes, and the victims are getting younger every year. Sextortion crimes are when predators trick or coerce children into sending explicit ...

Thirty-eight teenage boys in the US have died by suicide since 2021 after falling victim to “sextortion” scammers, a top cybercrimes investigator has told The Post. Two networks have been identified ...

A Canadian man admitted in federal court to a sextortion scheme that targeted over 100 children in the United States. The FBI in Houston said the investigation began years ago with a special agent who ...

Scams are usually financial crimes, but they’re almost always about more than money. When a grifter tricks somebody into pre-paying a tax for a fake lottery win, or writing a check to a bogus charity, ...

What used to be a crude scam built on old passwords is now personalized enough to scare executives into paying – and can create serious reputational fallout if mishandled ...

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 ...

“Anxiety, depression, self-harm” — and total dependency: Those are the “serious emotional harms” a family claims affected their daughter, identified only as KGM, in a bombshell lawsuit filed in 2023 ...

Experts warn sextortion, human trafficking often start online ...