Alan Irwin fell victim to an attempted sextortion scam after a man he met through a dating app threatened to send an intimate ...

It often starts by sending a private image through text or a social media platform, and then suddenly, it turns into threats ...

By Joey Garcia, University Communications and MarketingIt often starts by sending a private image through text or a social media platform ...

New safety features coming to Instagram will prevent people from screenshotting disappearing photos sent in private chats. New safety features coming to Instagram will prevent people from ...

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Oct. 17 (UPI) --Meta said Thursday Instagram is launching a new campaign to help teens and their parents avoid sextortion and fight the financially-driven scammers who prey on teens and children.

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Parents of tweens and teens are well aware that social media is full of landmines for our children. Now, there’s a new one to worry about: sextortion. The term is derived from a combination of the ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — Sextortion is a growing problem as new cases emerge every week in Hampton Roads. Experts say sextortion happens when someone threatens to share nude or explicit pictures or videos ...

Instagram is introducing a series of new safety features to protect users from sextortion scammers, the company announced on Thursday. Most notably, the company is no longer going to allow people to ...

Wisconsin lawmakers passed a bill making sextortion a felony crime. The bill was inspired by a Wisconsin teen who died by suicide after being blackmailed. Perpetrators could face up to 60 years in ...