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Boys as young as 11 falling victim to 'sextortion'
ITV ^ | 30 November 2016

Posted on 11/30/2016 8:48:25 AM PST by Gamecock

More men and boys - some as young as 11 - are falling victim to "sextortion" - or webcam blackmail - with sometimes devastating effects.

Four men have killed themselves in the last year after being lured by online gangs, the National Crime Agency said.

Sextortion is a form of blackmail where criminals use fake identities to befriend victims online - using websites such as Facebook, Skype or Linkedin - before persuading them to perform sexual acts in front of their webcam.

The number of reported webcam blackmail cases more than doubled in the past year, rising from 385 in 2015 to 864 - compared to just nine in 2011.

But the actual number of online sexual exploitation offences could be much higher because many victims are too embarrassed to report it.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) and the National Police Chiefs' Council have launched a new campaign to advise those who have been, or are likely to be, targeted.

One man in his teens said he thought about suicide after falling victim to the crime.

He was blackmailed for £500 by a woman he had been talking to online for some time who then threatened to expose him on Facebook.

He said: "I offered to go to the bank but went to the police station instead. I was trembling throughout the whole thing, shaking and thinking 'what's going to happen?'.

"This will ruin my life and did not know what to do. If this video is released onto Facebook, what would I do?

"What's going to happen with my job? What will my friends think? I thought about suicide, it would have been too embarrassing."

Another man, in his 60s, who started online dating when he split with his wife, said didn't go to the police straight away after he was blackmailed by a woman. He said the incident had destroyed him.

"Even now, I have trouble going on to the internet and I can't use Facebook any more. I wake up every morning and what is always in my head is that I don't know if that video still exists or not, he said.

"The police told me that people have committed suicide because of this, I can understand why. You feel destroyed."

A website has been set up by the NCA to help people who may have been victims.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: blackmail

1 posted on 11/30/2016 8:48:25 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

So why does Podesta, the Clinton Foundation,
and the DOJ and Comey get away with this,
and the protection of child rapes FOR SO LONG???


2 posted on 11/30/2016 8:49:55 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Gamecock

The weiner rule: never photograph or film your “junk” Nothing good ever happens because of it.

CC


3 posted on 11/30/2016 8:51:56 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Celtic Conservative
The weiner rule: never photograph or film your “junk” Nothing good ever happens because of it.

CC


And if you do, don't leave it on your smart phone with a weak/default password like celebrities do...:^)

4 posted on 11/30/2016 8:54:22 AM PST by az_gila
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To: Gamecock
A website has been set up by the NCA to help...

First thing you have to do is upload a video and then...

5 posted on 11/30/2016 9:00:01 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Gamecock

Another sign post-Christian America.


6 posted on 11/30/2016 9:28:24 AM PST by exPBRrat
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To: Celtic Conservative
its not like someone held a gun to them so they can show their little Viagra inspired male parts and start playing with themselves infront of a complete stranger...

They themselves did this...

and they're not humiliated for doing it....just humiliated if someone found out what small members they have and how creepy and slimy they are ....

boo hoo hoo....

7 posted on 11/30/2016 9:33:03 AM PST by cherry
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To: Moltke

...look at all the lonely people....

-Beatles


8 posted on 11/30/2016 9:49:17 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: az_gila

Good point!

CC


9 posted on 11/30/2016 9:50:04 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Gamecock
A generation unmoored from their creator God.

But the ACLU is happy....

10 posted on 11/30/2016 9:50:48 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Trust me. If I send a picture of a penis to some woman, it sure as shooting won’t be MY penis. I’m going to the zoo


11 posted on 11/30/2016 9:50:52 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: AppyPappy

LOL! All hail the internet! Where 16 year old nymphomaniacs are really 54 year old truck drivers from Toledo, and nobody cares!

CC


12 posted on 11/30/2016 9:55:09 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Gamecock

This is why my middle schoolers hate me for only letting them have dumb phones. They can call or text but can’t take photos, video-conference, etc.


13 posted on 11/30/2016 10:38:46 AM PST by tbw2
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To: AppyPappy
"Trust me. If I send a picture of a penis to some woman, it sure as shooting won’t be MY penis. I’m going to the zoo."


14 posted on 11/30/2016 10:41:54 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: longtermmemmory

Heh!


15 posted on 11/30/2016 11:05:26 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Gamecock

What do you expect when you perform sex acts for a camera?????

What idiots.

They should have thought this through BEFORE they participated.

I don’t feel sorry for someone who exercises such a lack of judgment.


16 posted on 11/30/2016 12:18:42 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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