Sextortion scammers were leveraging Google Maps data two months ago to demand money with menaces from innocent victims. Now ...

Emboldened by success with petty payments like electricity dues, cyber criminals have gone a step further — posing as authority figures to mulct huge sums from people who are mortally afraid of them.

Scammers are using increasingly sophisticated ways to lure unsuspecting victims, and some are impersonating an email help ...

and that they will blackmail the victim if they don’t pay through a QR code. Nadra Ehrman lives in Santa Barbara and says she’s received scam messages requesting money, but through a little ...

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PUTNAM COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about a new phone scam targeting residents. According to authorities, the scam consists of someone ...

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 27: The Criminal Investigation Department, successfully apprehended a gang accused of blackmail, coercion, and theft. The group allegedly threatened victims and extorted money using ...

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In the past week, an alarming extortion scam has targeted 59 Hong Kong residents ... In the past week, police received 59 cases of naked-chat blackmail, with scammers extorting more than HK$ ...

Police have issued a warning over a blackmail scam called 'sextortion' which sees young people 'most at risk'. The online scam sees criminals threaten to release victims' sexual pictures, video or ...

Wannabe reality TV star Jimmy Featherstone – nicknamed "Hull's Ken Doll" – has been warned that he could face a prison sentence after admitting a serious "sextortion" blackmail offence.

Shortly after the emails, the victim receives a phone call from fraudsters claiming to be from Google’s “security team”. They ...