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‘Sextortion’: 10 cases recorded in less than a month

Latifa Carlos
Last updated: January 22, 2019 12:45 pm
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The Police Cyber Crime Unit says it has recorded 10 cases of extortion by sex, referred to as “sextortion,” since the beginning of this year.

Though figures for the period preceding 2019 were worrying, officials say the recent trend constitutes an alarming increase.

Director of the Unit, Chief Superintendent Gustav Yankson, warns internet users to desist from putting out detailed personal information.

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The conference was organized by the Institute of Distance Learning of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Under the theme, “Cyber Crime: A threat to National Security,” it was targeted for students pursuing security-related courses.

Sextortion – coined from two words, “sex” and “extortion” – involves using a person’s nude picture for blackmail.

Perpetrators make repeated monetary demands of their victims and threaten to share their nude pictures online, if they refuse to succumb.

Chief Supt. Yankson says the practice, which is common across the globe, is gradually gaining ground in Ghana and targeted mostly at women.

“Ladies are still taking nude pictures of themselves. We tell them not to but they still do it,” he noted.

Chief Superintendent Gustav Yankson

The perpetrators make countless monetary demands and when their victims fail to comply they threaten to share their nude pictures online.

Dr. Yankson advocates that internet users maintain healty “cyber hygiene’ practices to protect unsuspecting individuals from falling victim to internet predators and ensure a safe digital Ghana.

Provost of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof Imoro Braimah, says the University aims to train students to be well-equipped with tools to fight cybercrime

“We, as an academic institution, are trying to get into the minds of the miscreants of technology so we can fight the menace,” he stressed.

 

Source: Myjoyonline.com

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