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Sextortion

Criminals claim to have victims' inappropriate pictures, demand money

  • Feb 13

Parents asking for tougher laws for online network exploiting children

  • Dec 10, 2025

Terrorism charges recently filed against 764 network targeting minors

  • Nov 18, 2025

Plano man accused of soliciting sex videos that led to death of teen

  • Sep 1, 2025

What is sextortion? Threatening messages part of common scam

  • May 15, 2025

CA teen dies by suicide after falling victim to 'sextortion' scheme

  • May 14, 2025

Man arrested for 'sextorting' suburban teen, police say

  • Feb 17, 2025

Snapchat rolling out new tools to protect teens from sextortion

  • Jun 25, 2024

Latest Videos

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What is sextortion? Threatening messages part of common scam

  • May 15, 2025
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Man arrested for 'sextorting' suburban teen, police say

  • Feb 17, 2025
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Feds say 'sextortion' among growing online exploitation threat to kids

  • Dec 4, 2023
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Sextortion: What to do if someone tries to scam, extort money from you

  • Jun 16, 2022
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FBI warns of 'sextortion' scam targeting teen boys

  • May 21, 2022
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Sextortion scams on the rise, FBI says

  • Sep 16, 2019
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Teen allegedly extorts thousands from teacher he was having sex with

  • Apr 5, 2017
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Man tricked women into sex, police say

  • Dec 31, 2016

Latest Stories

Instagram to crack down on teen sextortion

Instagram is aiming to make it harder for potential scammers and criminals to coerce teens into sending nude photos and extort them for money.

  • Apr 11, 2024

Online child exploitation risks grow, federal agents say; 'sextortion' on the rise in Chicago area

Federal agents are spreading the word about the growing practice of child exploitation on the internet, and Homeland Security Investigations has a program to educate parents and kids about the dangers that lurk online.

  • Dec 4, 2023

Lawmaker who lost son to suicide after 'sextortion' scam fights to save other teens

Gavin Guffey sent the scammers $25 -- all the money he had in his Venmo account -- and pleaded for more time, but "they didn't care," said his father, Brandon Guffey.

  • May 13, 2023

Sextortion scams involving kids, especially young boys, surging in Chicago area, FBI warns

Children and teenagers, increasingly young boys, are being targeted while on their phones or playing video games, according to federal agents.

  • Apr 6, 2023
KGO-TV

Man arrested in online 'sextortion' scheme that resulted in 17-year-old boy's suicide

According to the Justice Department, at least a dozen victims have taken their own lives as a result of these "sextortion" crimes.

  • Dec 20, 2022