Thunder Bay Police Service Reports Increase in Sextortion Complaints, Issues Online Safety Reminders

THUNDER BAY – NEWS – The Thunder Bay Police Service is warning the public about an apparent increase in complaints about sextortion threats. Sextortion is a form of digital extortion where a perpetrator acquires someone’s intimate or private photographs and threatens to make them public. The photographs or videos may have been given to the perpetrator by the victim or stolen without the victim’s knowledge.
In most cases, sextortioners persuade their victims to exchange se