FBI supervisory Special Agent, Leslie Adamczyk, joins Fox45 to discuss online sextortion and how students and parents can ...

The FBI issued a warning to Americans that "malicious actors" are using artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes to manipulate photos and videos and trap victims into so-called sextortion schemes.

The FBI calls what happened to James financial sextortion. "Any child can be a victim of this crime," said Abbigail Beccaccio, unit chief for the FBI Child Exploitation Unit. It consists of minors ...

As teens head back to school, the FBI is reporting an increase in scams targeting them, such as sextortion. Sextortion involves scammers convincing teens to send sexually explicit images or videos ...

The FBI is drawing attention to an upsurge in an online scam that's led some young victims to kill themselves. Under the "financially motivated sextortion schemes," criminals pose on social media ...

The FBI, along with law enforcement in Canada, Australia, and Nigeria, carried out Operation Artemis, targeting sextortion schemes that have led to over 20 teen suicides in the U.S. since 2021.

BEAUMONT, Texas — It's called "sextortion" and involves children and teens being threatened and coerced into sending explicit images online. The FBI has seen a huge increase in cases and so far ...

FBI officials in Cincinnati are issuing a warning over the increase in sextortion cases around the United States.The crime refers to when someone gets a sexually explicit photo and threatens to ...

The FBI has arrested 22 Nigerians in connection with a global sextortion scheme blamed for over 20 teen suicides in the U.S. since 2021 Operation Artemis, a first-of-its-kind international effort ...

The FBI defines sextortion as an online scheme in which ... Federal investigators will continue their global disruption efforts, Totten said Sunday following the extradition: “To those engaging ...

Educators, doctors and parents should stay up to date with NCMEC and FBI alerts to follow trends in online abuse. If you want to talk to your teenager about sextortion, here are some things you ...

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported over 34,000 sextortion victims in 2023, rising to more than 54,000 last year, with financial losses totaling nearly $65 million over the ...