US federal prosecutors say that Kassi and a group of three accomplices were all arrested in Côte d’Ivoire, charged for their ...

Its members target young teens on platforms like Discord and Roblox and intimidate them into filming themselves posing nude, ...

Two more suspects arrested in the 2022 Ryan Last sextortion case, as reported by the San José Police Department.

A twisted neo-Nazi sextortion ring that targets kids as young as 9 and blackmails them into making sick photos and videos is spreading to every corner of the United States — and the FBI has tips ...

The FBI said last month that a new global operation focusing on battling financial sextortion from Nigeria — another hotbed of the crime — had led to 22 arrests. About half of those were ...

The FBI’s Sacramento office warned parents last year about the growing threat of sextortion. From October 2021 to March 2023, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations received more than ...

The Weiss case is part of a disturbing trend. In 2024, the FBI reported a sharp increase in sextortion and image-based abuse targeting minors and college-age students. As technology evolves ...

Special Agent Gene Kowel with the FBI Omaha Field Office says there’s something new driving this growing trend. “What we’re seeing now is financial sextortion where the adult is doing this ...

A new online threat has emerged from a violent sextortion network called "764" that manipulates children in what the FBI described as "one of the most disturbing things" they're seeing.

US federal prosecutors say that Kassi and a group of three accomplices were all arrested in Côte d’Ivoire, charged for their alleged “role in an international ‘sextortion’ scheme that ...

A sick neo-Nazi sextortion ring that blackmails teens into making sick videos has become so prevalent across the US that every FBI field office in the country has at least one open case on the ...

The FBI's Sacramento office warned parents last year about the growing threat of sextortion. From October 2021 to March 2023, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations received more than 13,000 ...