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Surviving Sextortion / Sexual Photo Blackmail Sextortion Uses Explicit Photos Taken From The Victim How to Survive when Scammers Post those Photos What to do when Scammers Follow Through The criminals want you to be scared and freak out, but hold it together! You can make it through this. We know, we have helped loads before you! The secret to surviving this is to have a good story to help you survive this. Need To Talk? Call NOW! 988 Phone Help in the U.S. & Canada Sextortion uses Explicit Photos either Provided Willingly or by Other Means (such as Hacking) to use them against the Victim Sextortion Comes In Two Basic Flavors: Coercion Or Monetary Blackmail Sextortion As Coercion Sextortion is a form of sexual exploitation that employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual or other favors from the victim. Sextortion (on Wikipedia) refers to the broad category of sexual exploitation in which abuse of power is the means of coercion, as well as to the category of sexual exploitation in which threatened release of sexual images or information is the means of coercion. Sextortion As Blackmail Sextortion also refers to a form of blackmail or extortion in which sexual information or images are used to extort money from the victim. Social media and text messages are often the source of the sexual material and the threatened means of sharing it with others. An example of this type of sextortion is where people are extorted with a nude image of themselves they shared on the Internet through sexting or during a romance scam. They are later (usually) blackmailed for money or something of monetary value. Sextortion can be part of  Romance Scams After a basic romance scam is completed by the victims discovering the truth or when they stop paying, the scammers frequently will turn to sextortion as a means of obtaining more money. Most romance scammers will try some form of follow-on scam if they are able, either blackmail (which can include disclosure to friends and family), Read More ...