Reports of 'sextortion' to the eSafety Commissioner triple in the first quarter of 2023, with victims most likely to be young men.
Reports of "sextortion" to the eSafety Commissioner have tripled in the first quarter of 2023, with victims most likely to be young men.There's also been an increase in reports of child sexual abuse materialSextortion involves criminals soliciting sexual images and videos from victims to use to blackmail them and extort money.
Of the 1700 reports, the bulk were from young people, with 1200 victims aged between 18 and 24 coming to eSafety for help. "We need to educate young people, especially young men, to be very wary of attractive strangers approaching them out of the blue who get sexual straight away," she said. Snapchat and Instagram were the most-used platforms for sextortion, according to the eSafety Commissioner.In the first quarter of 2022 the commissioner received 3000 reports, but this year that number jumped to 8000.
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