Investigators said the gangs targeted individuals through Facebook, dating sites and even professional networking site LinkedIn. They have discovered criminals running factory-style centres, with 'honey trap' actors, blackmailers and financial centres laundering payments.
Oued Zem, 100 miles south east of Casablanca, has been dubbed the sextortion capital of the world with criminals increasingly targeting British men Officers from the NCA warned that Britain was being targeted by gangs in Morocco, the Philippines and the Ivory Coast. The gangs were making millions in ransom payments by threatening to share the footage with family, friends and colleagues. Overseas criminals were said to be using 'honey traps' to entice affluent businessmen and promising young male students to commit compromising acts on webcams. In November, police said young professionals were increasingly being targeted in a rising tide of attacks by online 'sextortion' blackmail gangs.
On its advice page, the agency urges victims to call police, not to communicate with or pay blackmailers and to preserve evidence such as their Skype ID. The country is also said to have set up a series of designated cyber crime units in a bid to destroy the illegal industry.Īccording to National Crime Agency Statistics, the number of Britons reporting cases of sextortion has rocketed by nearly a thousand from 385 in 2015 to 1,245 in 2016.Įxperts suspect thousands more have fallen prey to the gangs without contacting the authorities about their plight.
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