The fake sexploitation scam depends on con artists bluffing internet users into believing they've been caught watching pornographic content. Photo / 123RFThe fake sexploitation scam depends on con artists bluffing internet users into believing they've been caught watching pornographic content. Julia Hartley Moore, often busy investigating scammers and love rats, was herself a target of a "fake sexploitation" email ransom. Cocker said potential victims should remember it was rare for sexploitation scammers, or anyone, to successfully record someone the way scammers claimed. Hartley Moore said she'd received a sexploitation ransom email of the type Netsafe described.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 12, 2021 04:41 UTC