More teen boys on P.E.I. becoming targets of sextortion, including 3 this past weekend [Video]

Teen boys and young men on P.E.I. are becoming targets of what police are calling the growing and underreported global crime of sextortion.

There were 63 cases of attempted sextortion in RCMP jurisdiction on P.E.I. in 2023. There have been 34 so far this year, including three over the past weekend.

The boys were targeted on social media platforms where strangers pose as age-appropriate girls asking for sexual photo swaps, said RCMP Cpl. Gavin Moore.

Sometimes the culprits will ask for a picture of the teen’s room, and they will superimpose a sexual image into the photo as a way to extort them. 

“The boys and men believe that they are engaged with a person of similar age who seems to have a romantic interest in them,” Moore said.

Once these scammers have a compromising photo, they then blackmail victims, threatening to show these photos to friends and family.— RCMP Cpl. Gavin Moore

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