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"It begins with a follow request. An 18-year-old male accepts one on Instagram
from an attractive female stranger. She likes his posts, messages him first,
friendly, flattering, quick to move the chat to a messaging app.
Within an hour she has shared an intimate image and asked for one in return.
The moment he sends it, the flirtation stops: pay, or his image goes to his
mother and every friend the blackmailer has found on his profile. A countdown
begins.
This is a fictional scenario, but in 2025 the eSafety Commissioner received
more than 3,300 reports of sexual extortion or “sextortion”. The vast majority
of reports were made by male victims.
A national survey by the Australian Institute of Criminology found more than
one in ten Australian adolescents have experienced sexual extortion, over half
of them before they’d turned 16. Two in five were targeted with digitally
manipulated material, and two-thirds by someone they had only ever met online.
In addition, new national research published last week found that among young
people who had sexual images shared without consent, one in four said AI was
involved.
eSafety’s latest transparency report, released today, draws on answers
platforms must provide under Australia’s
Online Safety Act. It reveals many
platforms are still not using available tools to detect this crime. Yet sexual
extortion is arguably the most predictable serious crime on the internet. It
follows a script."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
