Sextortion and blackmail
Threats to publish intimate images or private information unless you pay.
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What to do
Practical steps, in plain language.
Urgent Action
Someone is threatening to share private photos of you
Sextortion is almost always a numbers game run from a script. What to do, what not to do, and why the threat is usually not carried out.
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Read →It happened to them too
Written by people who went through it, in their own words.
My friend found a Facebook page full of AI deepfakes of her
“last night, i woke up to my friend spam calling me, and when i answered, i immediately heard sobs from the other side.…”
A video call on Snapchat became a $500 blackmail demand
“i’m literally shaking right now. i met this girl on bumble and we moved to snapchat and things got... heated. we did a…”
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