LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– Sextortion scams are the fastest growing cybercrimes targeting children in North America. These crimes are leading to victims committing suicide.
Sextortion is when scammers catfish victims online, create false relationships and coerce them into sending inappropriate images. In other instances, the images are completed fake and created using AI.
Ashli King, a Licensed Professional Counselor from Tree of Life Counseling and Consulting in Lafayette, explained those images are later used as blackmail, demanding victims pay up to keep the images a secret…