The United States Air Force warns flyers about blackmail via digital images. Call it sextortion.
“[M]ultiple incidents” of sextortion involving airmen have been reported “in Japan, South Korea and Alaska, one in Portugal, and one on Guam.”
How does it work?
An unknown but disquieting number of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines have been lured into filming themselves doing things better left private, thereby exposing themselves to blackmail.
“The perpetrator subsequently threatens to upload the contents on various websites (YouTube, Facebook, heterosexual and homosexual porn sites, etc.) or distribute it to the victims’ family, friends, or coworkers unless financial payment is made,” the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations explains in an alert issued last month...
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