CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 Chicago I-Team has an alert on sextortion. It involves threatening letters delivered through email or direct message, claiming to have compromising videos, but they're scams.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - Sextortion is an online scam where people obtain explicit images from teenagers and threaten to release them unless they are given money or more photos. According to the La ...

Over the past decade, organized crime gangs working out of Southeast Asia have scammed people out of billions of dollars. Operating giant scam compounds—where experts estimate around 200,000 victims ...

Thirty-eight teenage boys in the US have died by suicide since 2021 after falling victim to “sextortion” scammers, a top cybercrimes investigator has told The Post. Two networks have been identified ...