PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Now that school's out, many teenagers are spending more time on their phones. According to the FBI, an online crime they're calling "sextortion" is on the rise in the ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — Sextortion is a growing problem as new cases emerge every week in Hampton Roads. Experts say sextortion happens when someone threatens to share nude or explicit pictures or videos ...

Scammers often rely on fear to steal your hard-earned money. No matter the scam, whether it's a Microsoft call scam or government impersonation, they all attempt to scare you by claiming that ...

Maddox Isaiah Cummings, 21, was charged with witness intimidation, blackmail, and possessing child sex abuse material after ...

PHILADLEPHIA (CBS) — Sextortion is on the rise in the Philadelphia area, and the FBI wants minors and families to be aware of the crime. Sextortion is when someone online poses as a young person, ...

Instagram has introduced a series of new safety features to prevent sextortion schemes, marking the platform’s latest effort to protect users, especially teenagers, from online harm. The safety ...

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued on Monday a notice alerting U.S. financial institutions that reports of financially motivated sextortion schemes have sharply increased.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elijah Heacock was a vibrant teen who made people smile. He "wasn't depressed, he wasn't sad, he wasn't angry," father John ...