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 Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Thursday a global operation to combat international sextortion schemes to address the rise in American suicides of those who have fallen victim to ...

This week, the FBI announced the results of Operation Artemis, an international crackdown on sextortion rings targeting teenage boys. Working with law enforcement in Nigeria, Canada, and Australia ...

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 ...

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 ...

And the problem is on the rise in a big way. From October 2024 to March 2025, the FBI reported a 30% increase in sextortion-related tips submitted to its National Threat Operations Center ...