{"id":15613,"date":"2024-08-21T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/it-looks-so-real-amid-rise-in-financial-sextortion-childline-is-helping-teenagers-fight-back\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:37:14","slug":"it-looks-so-real-amid-rise-in-financial-sextortion-childline-is-helping-teenagers-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/it-looks-so-real-amid-rise-in-financial-sextortion-childline-is-helping-teenagers-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It looks so real\u2019: amid rise in financial sextortion, Childline is helping teenagers fight back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counsellors are receiving an increasing number of calls from young people being blackmailed over faked indecent images<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/national-crime-agency-threatens-extraditions-rise-in-sextortion-cases\">National Crime Agency threatens extraditions over rise in sextortion cases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/how-west-africas-online-fraudsters-moved-into-sextortion\">How west Africa\u2019s online fraudsters moved into sextortion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a phone call that has become all too common for Childline counsellors in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old boy said he was scared and did not know what to do. He had been contacted by a \u201cgirl\u201d on social media claiming to be his own age and, after an exchange of messages, had sent her an intimate image. And then the blackmail demands started.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/amid-rise-in-financial-sextortion-childline-is-helping-teenagers-fight-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b4086dcc380271ade2e349580046fc769348fb14\/1_0_4999_3000\/master\/4999.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0330091164eabaabe5e8cad73d396e1e\" title=\"\u2018It looks so real\u2019: amid rise in financial sextortion, Childline is helping teenagers fight back\" \/>Counsellors are receiving an increasing number of calls from young people being blackmailed over faked indecent images<\/p>\n<p>National Crime Agency threatens extraditions over rise in sextortion cases<br \/>\nHow west Africa\u2019s online fraudsters moved into sextortion<\/p>\n<p>It was a phone call that has become all too common for Childline counsellors in recent months.<br \/>\nThe 17-year-old boy said he was scared and did not know what to do. He had been contacted by a \u201cgirl\u201d on social media claiming to be his own age and, after an exchange of messages, had sent her an intimate image. And then the blackmail demands started. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counsellors are receiving an increasing number of calls from young people being blackmailed over faked indecent images National Crime Agency threatens extraditions over rise in sextortion cases How west Africa\u2019s online fraudsters moved into sextortion It was a phone call that has become all too common for Childline counsellors in recent months. The 17-year-old boy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/it-looks-so-real-amid-rise-in-financial-sextortion-childline-is-helping-teenagers-fight-back\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It looks so real\u2019: amid rise in financial sextortion, Childline is helping teenagers fight back<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}