Online Scams: Blackmails, Deceptions, and Victims

Sextortion scam is defined as the crime of blackmailing victims using their sensitive information to inflict great psychological distress and extort them. Victims not only suffer from immediate financial losses but also immense shock and terror, some to the point of having their daily lives severely impacted.

Contents

1. Simple Lies and Blackmails


2. Sextortion – Holding Private Life as Hostage
   
   
   
   • Methods of Approach
   
   
   • What Happens When Files are Installed
   
   
   • Fileless Does Not Equal Safe
   
   
   • How Victims Suffer
   
   
   
   


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