SEXTORTION

About:

• ‘Sextortion', a cyber-crime which has been observed in the West, is now a reality in India.
  
  
• In this, people, after visiting pornographic websites, found themselves being extorted with records of their online activities as leverage. It also includes extorting sexual favours from the victim instead of money.
  
  
• Sextortion is done using various methods.
  • One method involves chatting with an unsuspecting victim posing as a girl and getting them to send compromising pictures of themselves, which are then used for blackmail.
    
    
  • Another involves placing links on pornographic websites which, if clicked on, record the victim's activities.
    
    
  
  
  
• Perpetrators of the crime install back door programmes on the websites for the purpose of recording the activities of their victims.