‘Sextortion’ scams: Gangs targeting teen boys as cases of online blackmail scheme rise drastically
Sextortion is a problem no parent wants to find their child caught up in. Now, law enforcement is seeing a new shift in how sextortion happens. It shows gangs targeting adolescent and teen boys instead of girls.
CHICAGO – Sextortion is a problem no parent wants to find their child caught up in.
Now, law enforcement is seeing a new shift in how sextortion happens. It shows gangs targeting adolescent and teen boys instead of girls.
It starts out simple enough. A young boy receives a social media friend request from a cute girl he doesn’t know. But there’s much more to that message.
“They’ll do a hundred, 200 friend requests in one single day,” said Rich Wistocki, a retired Naperville cybercrime detective.
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Wistocki now travels the country talking to students and law enforcement about cyber safety.
“We’re seeing a break right now where gangs all over the country and all over the world are sex trafficking young girls, and their job is to engage boys’ conversations online and in video chat,” Wistocki said.
Once the boy and girl are video chatting, Wistocki says the girl takes…
