By Allan Lengel The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are concerned about what they see as an increasing global problem of sextortion schemes targeting minors on gaming apps and other digital platforms, the Voice of America reports. Sextortion schemes involve the victim sending naked photos to people who then threaten to release them unless…
By Allan Lengel The FBI and other agencies have issued an alert to be on guard against an explosion of incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending sexually explicit images online and being extorted for money. Known as “financial sextortion,” law enforcement authorities say they’ve received more than 7,000 reports of online incidents…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI may be handling its biggest case yet of “sextortion.” The bureau is asking for the public’s help finding hundreds of teenage victims who sent sexually explicit photos to a Florida man after he threatened them, WJXT reports. Lucas Chansler, 31, was sentenced to 105 years in federal prison last…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is looking for help identifying suspects in its largest “sextortion” case ever prosecuted. WJXX-TV reports that a Northeast Florida man was asking for sexually explicit photos and videos of girls as young as 13 years old. “He pretended to be a young boy the same age,” said McCarley. “He…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A California man’s decision to hack the phone of the reigning Miss Teen USA turned out to be a bad one. ABC News reports that police arrested 19-year-old Jared James Abrahams of Temecula on charges that he hacked her phone to obtained nude photos, which he threatened to reveal unless she sent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a so-called “sextortion case” that targeted newly crowned Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and other women, The Los Angeles Times reports. The culprit hacked into the computers of Wolf and others, turning on the webcam and also searching for nude photos and videos, The Times wrote. Once the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the eyes of authorities, Luis Mijangos was a skilled computer hacker who went on the rampage and tried to extort sexually explicit videos from women and girls in what some referred to as a “sextortion” case. On Thursday, Mijangos ,32, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, who lived in Santa Ana,…
