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, ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...