Sextortion

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Sextortion is a crime in which a miscreant lures victims to perform sexual acts in front of a camera (e.g., a webcam in a chat room), records those acts, and later asks for a monetary payment in order not to release the footage.

Definitions

According to the CyBOK (version 1),

Sextortion. A crime in which a miscreant lures victims to perform sexual acts in front of a camera (e.g., a webcam in a chat room), records those acts, and later asks for a monetary payment in order not to release the footage.