Exclusive: Instructions show how to trick teenagers into sending intimate photos to blackmail them financially
Detailed written manuals and video guides to financially motivated sexual extortion – commonly known as sextortion – are available freely online, with criminals offering specialist and tailored tuition for further payment, the Guardian has learned.In cases of sextortion, teenagers are tricked online into sending intimate pictures of themselves to fraudsters who then demand money and threaten to share the material with others.
“There is advice to criminals to target secondary schools, and instructions on how to threaten victims and the language to use. There are examples of the tutorials available for sale online, offered as a ‘full blackmailing guide’ at a cost of around 10,000 Nigeria Naira .” The guide promises “valuable insights and tools”, including advice on creating fake profiles, differentiating between short-term and long-term targets, accessing strangers’ social media accounts, and creating an initial connection then manipulating and coercing victims into sending explicit content.
This guide also offers readers access to the specific extortion scripts used by the writer for $50, and three months of one-to-one guidance for $250. Security experts have uncovered evidence of at least 276 financial transactions with the writer, indicative of individuals buying these services.
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