Operation Phobos

The Fort Wayne Police Department issued a warning the the public about financial sextortion scams online.

Sexual blackmail schemes are spreading from the upper echelons of Indian society to the poor and working class.

WASHINGTON, United States — US justice officials warned Monday that there was an “explosion” of incidents in which children were extorted for money after being persuaded to provide explicit images of themselves.

They pose as local teenagers but are actually criminals in West Africa.

“Please talk to your children and make sure you know what is going on with them,” said Tamia and Timothy Woods.

Avast Writer Emma McGowan received a sextortion email threatening to blackmail her – here's her story about the inner workings of sextortion email scams.

Sextortion is a form of cyberviolence in which ‘offenders demand that victims provide them with sexual images, sexual favours, or other things of value and threaten to harm or embarrass victims if they fail to comply’. 

A St. Paul man will spend four decades behind bars for sextorting more than 500 girls across the country over the last five years.

19 Investigates found a local task force is seeing sextortion cases involving adults too.

Adolescent boys are being targeted primarily on social media giants Instagram® and Snapchat® as part of an ongoing sextortion crisis, an analysis of July Cybertip.ca data by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) shows.

McCullough was a business teacher at Cassville High School in the Cassville R-4 School District at the time of the offense.

A film review of "Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic."...

Officials with the Knoxville division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are warning parents about a new scheme that’s trying to extort young boys.

Law enforcement agencies are fearful of the rising increase of children and teens targeted online and extorted after being tricked into sending sexually explicit messages.

The frightening blackmail ruse arrived by text to a New Mexico resident recently. 

Jonathan Kassi of Reseda was arrested in connection with an online "sextortion" scheme that resulted in the suicide death of a 17-year-old boy.

According to court documents, HSI and VBPD first identified Marco Viscomi, 36, of Ontario, in 2012 after a father reported that his daughters, ages 13 and 17 at the time, were sexually extorted online.

What to Do about Sextortion in 2022 and Beyond? 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes there could be victims of a sextortion enterprise who are currently residing in Oklahoma.

The FBI is also seeking help identifying other victims who may have been in contact with Sheffield.

A South Bay task force focused on stopping online exploitation of minors is hosting the screening of a new documentary about the rapid rise of “sextortion”...

CTV’s Maralee Caruso talks with Stephen Sauer with Cybertip about how boys are being targeted for sextortion.

RCMP in multiple Alberta jurisdictions, including Olds and Fort Saskatchewan, are warning the public..