Sextortion and Laws in India
What is SEXTORTION? A form of sexual exploitation that employs non-physical forms of coercion by threatening to release sexual images or information to extort monetary or sexual favors from the victim. Modus Operandi 1) The scammers persuade the dater to send sexually explicit photos. Once they get the photos, the scammers identify themselves as law enforcement, telling the dater they sent the pictures to a minor. They then tell the person to pay up in order to avoid arrest. The scammers are not only identifying themselves as law enforcement, they are also using actual names of officers. “These people are being contacted by Detective Don Peterson and it isn’t me,” Peterson told the paper. More than 100 people have paid between $500 to $1,500 to try to avoid arrest. 2) The groups is to create online accounts of females and post pictures of attractive ladies to draw clients. They would then post pornographic images and entice their victims to have video chats with them, usually