Exclusive: Instructions show how to trick teenagers into sending intimate photos to blackmail them financially
How can children be protected from online sextortion fraud?
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.
The guides can be found on platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Telegram.
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