Voluntarily “Falling” for the Sextortion Scam So You Don’t Have To [Part 1]
3 min readNov 10, 2022
Sextortion is a social engineering scam involving capitalizing on individual sexual needs. It begins by sending friendly messages that quickly result in a “Let’s get off this dating site and go to a chat app”, where chat app is often Whatsapp, Skype, Google Chat, Kik, or something similar. The perpetrator uses the initial conversation to gauge a variety of…