Young people are especially vulnerable to sextortion, because they’re generally less inhibited online, tending to share more and being more trustful of internet strangers. The attacker steals the data - perhaps through spoofing or planting malware - then makes demands on the victim to get it back. Sextortion also occurs when a victim is coerced into sending sexual content to retreive stolen private data. Sextortion can even escalate to blackmail sex. Perpetrators then threaten to publish the content unless the victim sends more. They use fake accounts and other social engineering tricks to gain trust, then ask for compromising images or videos.
Sextortionists often seek people who stream or post sexually explicit content of themselves.
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