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HSI warns of organized sextortion rings; advice to victims: block, save evidence, do not pay
Summary
Homeland Security Investigations described transnational sextortion schemes that target teens and sometimes demand peer-to-peer or prepaid payments. Agents urged victims and parents not to pay, to preserve evidence and to report tips to law enforcement and NCMEC.
Homeland Security Investigations used a live presentation to describe sextortion and organized schemes that solicit compromising images and then demand money or additional content.
Special Agent Dennis Fetting described investigations into individuals and groups that used multiple fake social-media profiles to solicit images from children and then threatened distribution to friends and family unless victims paid via Cash App, prepaid cards or cryptocurrency. He cited multiple prosecutions, including arrests in…
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