Opposing Showing CSAM and Sexted Images to Parents, Guardians, and Other Adults As the leading organization of professionals who serve children and families affected by child maltreatment, the Association of Professionals Solving the Abuse of Children (APSAC) has the responsibility … Read More
Sextortion
Sextortion, Crowdsourcing, Enticement, and Coercion
Because offenders use a variety of techniques to manipulate minors into producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the child exploitation threat is constantly evolving. Some of those techniques include engaging in sextortion and crowdsourcing schemes which use enticement and coercion … Read More
Warning: Victims’ Faces Placed on Explicit Images in Sextortion Scam
The FBI has issued a warning about criminals digitally manipulating people’s faces on to pornographic images—known as deepfaking—and then using those images to harass or extort money out of their victim in a practice known as sextortion. The FBI said the victims … Read More