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.

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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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$ ...

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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Scam calls are incredibly common, but Google has a new plan to detect them in real time using on-device AI models. It's ...

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

Similar to honey traps, naked-chat blackmail usually involves extortionists using women to take off their clothes in front of their webcams and enticing male victims to do the same. The victims ...

Guy, of Swindon, Wiltshire, was arrested and later charged with blackmail. She pleaded guilty to the crime in December 2023, which can carry a prison sentence of up to 14 years. At Swindon Crown ...