Criminals are taking advantage of loose regulations and a lack of accountability around what happens on social media platforms
Mounties in British Columbia issued a warning Friday about a recent increase in "sextortion," saying police have received a "large number" of reports of money-motivated extortion targeting children and youth.
The victims are pulled "deeper and deeper" into the extortion, he says, as the criminals continue harassing them, threatening to publicly share the personal images while they try to extract as much money as they can. The RCMP's National Child Exploitation Crime Centre received a total of 52,306 complaints about the crime for the year 2020-21 — a 510 per cent increase from seven years earlier.
Many Canadians learned of the risks of sextortion through Amanda Todd, a teenager from Port Coquitlam, B.C. She died by suicide at age 15 in October 2012, a few weeks after posting a video using flash cards to describe being tormented by an online predator. Last summer, a 17-year-old boy died by suicide in his rural community south of Winnipeg within three hours of a message that sought to extort him, Sauer says.
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