Ontario Provincial Police are warning the public of sextortion scams circulating online in the eastern region and throughout the province.
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"Sextortion" is a form of online child exploitation, which involves children being coerced or threatened into sending adults explicit images. 
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The FBI says they're getting more and more calls about a sextortion scam. FOX 5's Sierra Fox reports.
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The arrest today in Dabri comes days after the Delhi Police said they arrested the mastermind of an interstate sextortion gang from Bharatpur district in Rajasthan.
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Mitchell James Ottinger, 25, pleaded guilty to the so-called "catfishing" scheme in U.S. District Court this week.
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Canada's online child exploitation tipline is alerting the public of a significant spike in "sextortion" cases involving teens.
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According to court documents, HSI and VBPD first identified Marco Viscomi, 36, of Ontario, in 2012 after a father of two girls, who were 13 and 17 years old at the time, reported to VBPD that his daughters had been sexually extorted by someone they met online.
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19 Investigates found a surge in cyber tips for online sexual predators since the pandemic began.
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Queensland Police and Australian Federal Police established the Cairns Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET) in mid-2020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spike in reported cases of online child sexual exploitation.
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Alexander Griffiths' has been jailed after the 14-year-old victim revealed she had self harmed nearly every day thanks to his abuse
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Michigan AG Dana Nessel warned parents and teens to be on high alert for predators who trick young people into sending sexually graphic images, later blackmailing them for money.
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According to court documents, Filippo Parlagreco, 35, allegedly sought and obtained via a social media application sexually explicit images of an 11-year-old minor, threatened to disseminate the images if the minor did not produce more, and then shared sexually explicit images of the minor with others via encrypted messaging applications.
As alleged in the complaint, law enforcement identified the minor victim after another minor victim notified the police that the defendant had posted photos of her undressed on a social media application without her consent, and demanded additional images from her as a condition of taking the photos down.
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Internet child predators have been using social media, such as Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, to extort minors, the Maryland State Police said.
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An 11-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Brian Quinones, a paraprofessional at Midwood High School, with sexual exploitation of a child, distribution of child of pornography, cyberstalking, and related offenses. The charges relate to sexually explicit videos of a child that the defendant allegedly requested and received from a boy he met over the Internet, as well as other sexually explicit images and videos that the defendant possessed and distributed.
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A 24-year-old Sri Lankan national residing in Melbourne has today (2 March 2022) been sentenced to jail, after coercing young girls into sending...
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Delhi Police busted a sextortion racket and arrested its mastermind in Rajasthan on Saturday,...
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Prosecutors say he knew some of the victims through his education jobs.
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The complaints of sextortion and sexually explicit content in the cyber space have increased by 250 per cent in the past 21 months but...
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The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns of a spike in sextortion attacks since the beginning of 2021 that caused $8M losses.
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In a news release issued Wednesday, police said they’ve received reports of scammers superimposing an image of a victim’s face over a video or photo so it appears the person is nude or engaging in sexual acts.
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This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and Western Australia Police Force A WA man who allegedly pretended to be
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The FBI Anchorage Field Office is reporting an increase in sextortion attempts in Alaska, involving adults coercing minors through online platforms into producing sexually explicit images and videos.
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Youngest victim was an 11-year-old boy who sent naked photos to a scammer and was blackmailed out of HK$2,500, while biggest case involved HK$350,000.
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A Melville man is accused of being involved in a “sextortion” plot involving at least one underage girl on social media.
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