Children and teenagers, increasingly young boys, are being targeted while on their phones or playing video games, according to federal agents.
Authorities say the criminals talk their way into obtaining explicit photos and demand money to keep the sexual pictures private.Federal law enforcement officials are issuing an alert over a surge in the number of "sextortion" cases in metro Chicago.
At FBI headquarters in Chicago, officials provided the startling new numbers to the I-Team and talked about a planned counterattack by federal authorities. "It starts with a simple hello. They form a friendship and then ask for these images," explained Czubak. The FBI said many sextortionists operate from Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and the Philippines. The Midwest spike is currently a mystery.
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