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.

Lisa Schiller, at the Better Business Bureau, says they’re tracking a type of “sextortion” blackmail scam where con artists will claim they have evidence of you watching porn. “They’ll ...

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 ...

AFP raid the home of a Sydney man charged with allegedly attempting to misuse stolen Optus customer data in a text message blackmail scam.Credit: Police Media AFP acting commander cybercrime Dean ...

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“The politics of blackmail have ended. Now, we are all united as Kenyans from across the country. We are focused on delivering development,” Ruto said. • The word crisis originates from the ...

The request, which was made several months ago, relates to a commander who worked with the Prime Minister's office. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in ...

The village favourite is horrified as Tom resorts to blackmail in the ongoing dispute surrounding his job. Tom was suspended from the local vets surgery in September after his wife Belle Dingle ...

A grocery trader from Bhopal has reported receiving blackmail threats from a man claiming to be his estranged wife's lover. The accused, identified as Yogesh, allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh and a ...

A postgraduate student in Mumbai fell victim to online blackmail by a man she befriended on Instagram. The accused, Sujith, coerced her into appearing nude on video calls and later extorted ₹5 ...