May 7, 2024

Study: Online ‘Sextortion’ is Fastest-Growing Crime Targeting Minors

Online “sextortion” is the fastest-growing crime targeting kids in the West, and social media companies are failing to do more to prevent it, according to a recent study. A cybercriminal group in West Africa known as “Yahoo Boys” is driving “financial sextortion,” which involves coercing kids and teens into sending explicit images of themselves, and then threatening

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