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Sextortion

Sextortion is a type of cyber-enabled extortion which involves the threat of sharing sexual information, images or clips to extort money from you, whether images actually exist or not.

Police Scotland have advice on what you can do to reduce the likelihood of this happening and what to do if you’re a victim of extortion.

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