The FBI, along with law enforcement in Canada, Australia, and Nigeria, carried out Operation Artemis, targeting sextortion schemes that have led to over 20 teen suicides in the U.S. since 2021. The ...

The FBI is drawing attention to an upsurge in an online scam that's led some young victims to kill themselves. Under the "financially motivated sextortion schemes," criminals pose on social media ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 Chicago I-Team has an alert on sextortion. It involves threatening letters delivered through email or direct message, claiming to have compromising videos, but they're scams.

Three years after a California teen killed himself as a result of being “sextorted” online, authorities have arrested four men in Ivory Coast for their roles in an international scheme that targeted ...

“Sextortion is a real and dangerous scam that is affecting students across the country,” Middletown police posted on social media. “In these schemes, predators manipulate, threaten, and extort young ...

Scams are usually financial crimes, but they’re almost always about more than money. When a grifter tricks somebody into pre-paying a tax for a fake lottery win, or writing a check to a bogus charity, ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) – The La Crosse Police Department and Emplify Health by Gundersen are warning families about a growing online scam that has already led to tragedy in Wisconsin. It’s called ...

KRONENWETTER, Wis. (WSAW) - A Northcentral Wisconsin mother is speaking out after her 15-year-old son died by suicide, saying an online scam known as “sextortion” is to blame. The scheme is when ...

Over the past decade, organized crime gangs working out of Southeast Asia have scammed people out of billions of dollars. Operating giant scam compounds—where experts estimate around 200,000 victims ...