Voluntarily “Falling” for the Sextortion Scam So You Don’t Have To [Part 1]

The scammer’s photo from CougarLife.com. I can’t trace it back to another profile but if anyone else can, let me know.

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…