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Police concern after significant rise in "sextortion" reports

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Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionFootage or images obtained through webcam recording, or from footage or images provided by the victim, were used as leverage in 236 (83 per cent) of reported incidents.Two thirds of the extortions (189 incidents ) demanded money from the victim to avoid disclosure of sexual images or footage they had unwittingly provided to criminals.Sextortion victims were aged between 10 and 85, with the majority (64 per cent, or 182) aged 25 and under.Assistant Chief Constable Pat Campbell said: “Becoming a victim of extortion is devastating particularly if the extortion involves the threat of sexual exposure.“Social media has become the.

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