sextortion

Indeed, Letterman's sextortion scandal now seems like it happened years ago.

One federal affidavit includes a special term for the crime: "sextortion."

So how do you protect yourself from sextortion?

Now the college freshman is speaking out against so-called 'sextortion' in order to spread the word and teach other young women how to avoid it.

The alleged "sextortion" case, as federal investigators have dubbed it, dates back to 2009.

His arrest came six months after Wolf alerted authorities to the "sextortion" scheme.

If you believe you have been the victim of sextortion, file a report at http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx.

It's a process called "sextortion," and it's exactly what it sounds like: sexual extortion.

But prosecutors said in court papers that Mijangos also caused psychological harm to the young women and girls who were the victims of his "sextortion."

Authorities said the "sextortion" scheme worked this way:

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It is the first sexual extortion, or "sextortion," case prosecuted in Puerto Rico, authorities said.

Calling it "sextortion," authorities said Mijangos infiltrated the most intimate parts of his victims' lives and scarred them for a lifetime.

The FBI described the alleged blackmail as "sextortion."

Wolf was a victim of sextortion, after photographs of her were hacked and used in an attempt to blackmail her.

He was charged in April 2012 with operating a "sextortion" scheme that targeted hundreds of minors across the country, some as young as 12 years old.

An example of this type of sextortion is where people are extorted with a nude image of themselves they shared on the Internet through sexting.

Unplug or disable your Webcam when you're not using it Many sextortion victims didn't mean to take, or share naked images of themselves.

He said sextortion has been on the rise over the past few years and can involve a large number of victims being blackmailed or extorted by one individual.

Through an anonymous email address, the cyber stalker attempted to extort Wolf for sexual favors, hence the term 'sextortion.'

Among the 255 alleged child abusers arrested in Operation iGuardian, 20 were involved in online solicitation including two large sextortion investigations, the agency said.

Seventy-nine per cent of the victims were women and 13 per cent of cases involved the type of blackmail sometimes known as "sextortion".