Growing Snapchat 'sextortion' schemes target young boys, expert warns ... "We would aggressively report [sextortion cases] to U.S. authorities, to the FBI, ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Anthony Fritzinger, who was stationed at Cherry Point, preyed on vulnerable children.

Snapchat failed to adequately warn its users about the extent of rampant “sextortion schemes” targeting underage users – even as employees debated internally about how to address the crisis ...

Investigators in Florida are warning the public of sextortion after a teenager fell victim to a scheme on Snapchat. by: Kimber Collins Posted: Jul 28, 2022 / 08:38 AM CDT ...

Snapchat, operated by parent company Snap Inc., is often in the middle of high-profile cases such as Woodson's, in which he was sentenced to 50 years in prison. (Woodson is appealing the case.) ...

It started on Snapchat. Investigators with the Broward Sheriff's Office say a 14-year-old Broward girl struck up a friendship with a 18-year-old man in December 2018.

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Okaloosa County investigators are warning the public of sextortion after a teenager fell victim to a scheme on Snapchat. More News from WRBL OCSO said the teena… ...

Deputies described it as a sextortion case. “Sextortion is a term used to describe the act of pressuring another person to send inappropriate images and then threatening to release them in an ...

In some cases, sextortion has resulted in suicides. The Snapchat login screen on a smartphone arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023.

That's according to a study released in April by Snapchat’s parent company. It's a statistic that hits home for a Sumter County family. They say their 13-year-old son was a victim of sextortion ...

Cases of sextortion -- conning teens to share explicit images online and then using the images for blackmail -- have so far this year already passed the number of incidents reported in the state in ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — County investigators in Florida are warning the public of sextortion after a teenager fell victim to a scheme on Snapchat. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said ...