ST. LOUIS – FBI agents from across the United States, including St. Louis, have broken up a global sextortion ring in an effort dubbed Operation Artemis. According to the FBI, 22 suspects in ...

A sick neo-Nazi sextortion ring that blackmails teens into making sick videos has become so prevalent across the US that every FBI field office in the country has at least one open case on the ...

According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), reports of sextortion jumped from 34,000 cases in 2022 to more than 54,000 in 2023, resulting in nearly $65 million in financial ...

A twisted neo-Nazi sextortion ring that targets kids as young as 9 and blackmails them into making sick photos and videos is spreading to every corner of the United States — and the FBI has tips ...

ST. LOUIS — A global scheme putting kids at risk is being addressed by the FBI in the greater St. Louis area. Federal authorities call sextortion a crime on the rise. They say that more than 20 ...

The FBI, along with law enforcement in Canada, Australia, and Nigeria, carried out Operation Artemis, targeting sextortion schemes that have led to over 20 teen suicides in the U.S. since 2021.

The FBI is drawing attention to an upsurge in an online scam that's led some young victims to kill themselves. Under the "financially motivated sextortion schemes," criminals pose on social media ...