SAN DIEGO—The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in San Diego warned parents and caregivers on April 28 about an increase in “sextortion” incidents involving children, especially teenage boys.
According to the FBI, the agency has received more reports of adults posing as young girls coercing boys through social media to produce sexual images and videos, and then extorting money from them. Sextortion is a crime and involves an adult contacting a minor over online platforms such as an app, game, or social media account.
A predator will use deception and manipulation tactics to convince a young male, most between 14 to 17, “to engage in explicit activity over video, which is then secretly recorded by the predator,” according to the FBI.
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