In a sextortion recovery scam, fraudsters target victims of an extortion scam, claiming they can recover intimate images for a fee
A panicked 14-year-old from British Columbia and his family paid $1,500 to a company that claimed it would recover intimate images that were being used to extort him. It didn’t.
A Dutch man was convicted in B.C. Supreme Court last year of extortion, harassment and distribution of child pornography in Todd’s case. The Winnipeg-based Centre for Child Protection runs Cybertip, Canada’s tip line for reporting online child sexual abuse. It has reported receiving “an unprecedented volume of reports from youth, and sometimes their concerned parents, about falling prey to aggressive sextortion tactics,” amounting to about 300 online sextortion cases a month.
“It just creates a sort of additional layer of vulnerability for them when they’ve been victimized by sextortion.” While publication of intimate images without consent is already an offence under the Criminal Code, Sharma said the bill would create new legal rights and remedies people could use to stop distribution of the images and seek compensation for the harms caused.
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