The Guardian report explores the rapid growth in grooming attacks on young people. It reports that Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combined.
Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), have grown increasingly alarmed about the growing threat from sextortion and other crimes targeting teenagers.
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Note: Sextortion can refer to a variety of offences committed online. It is most often used to describe online blackmail, where criminals threaten to release sexual/indecent images of you, unless you pay money or carry out their demands.
