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FBI Intelligence Analyst Tora Bly Discusses Financially Motivated Sextortion

Tora Bly, an intelligence analyst in the FBI's Crimes Against Children and Human Trafficking Unit, discusses a financially motivated sextortion operation in Nigeria. The joint international operation targeted suspects whose crimes occurred in at least three countries and led to multiple deaths by suicides, including more than 20 in the U.S. since 2021.

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We understand that boys can unfortunately be soft targets, whereas they are, it's a little bit more easy to manipulate them into sharing different material that will be compromising. So that's kind of the delineation we've seen with them going after the boys versus the girls.

With girls, we've seen it where it takes time to kind of groom and to get them comfortable to share material. And with boys is kind of, okay, well, you know, there's an attractive girl, she wants me to do this or share this. And before you know it, a few minutes have gone by and now the subject has material where they can blackmail and extort the young men.

In a matter of seconds it can it can occur, you know, all within just one day, you know, where they target someone online, target a minor male online, you know, ask them to share this material, they share it. And then immediately the threats and all of the extortion, sextortion starts. So, yeah, we've seen it where it just happened in an instant.

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