--- Man Sentenced to 105 Yrs in Prison for Blackmailing Women On The Internet ---
Sextortion is a form of sexual exploitation that employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim. Sextortion refers to the broad category of sexual exploitation in which abuse of power is the means of coercion, as well as to the category of sexual exploitation in which threatened release of sexual images or information is the means of coercion.
As used to describe an abuse of power, sextortion is a form of corruption in which people entrusted with power – such as government officials, judges, educators, law enforcement personnel, and employers – seek to extort sexual favors in exchange for something within their authority to grant or withhold. Examples of such abuses of power include: government officials who request sexual favors to obtain licenses or permits, teachers who trade good grades for sex with students, and employers who make providing sexual favors a condition of obtaining a job.
Sextortion also refers to a form of sexual blackmail in which sexual information or images are used to extort sexual favors from the victim.Social media and text messages are often the source of the sexual material and the threatened means of sharing it with others. An example of this type of sextortion is where people are extorted with a nude image of themselves they shared on the Internet through sexting. They are later coerced into performing sexual acts with the person doing the extorting or are coerced into performing
Man Arrested FOR Involving in Sextortion:
A man who is said to have blackmailed more than 350 women after convincing them to strip off in front of their webcams has been arrested in the US.
Prosecutors said Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, 27, had hacked into hundreds of Facebook, Skype and email accounts to obtain naked or semi-naked pictures.
It is alleged he threatened to post the nude images of victims publicly unless they removed their clothing on camera.
If convicted, he could receive a maximum jail sentence of 105 years.
A press statement from the US Department of Justice detailed the charges against Mr Kazaryan, of Glendale, California.
Mr Kazaryan is said to have gained unauthorised access to hundreds of women's accounts, changing their passwords to prevent them from getting access.
"Once he controlled the accounts, Kazaryan searched emails or other files for naked or semi-naked pictures of the victims, as well as other information, such as passwords and the names of their friends," the statement said.
"Using that information, Kazaryan posed online as women, sent instant messages to their friends, and persuaded the friends to remove their clothing so that he could view and take pictures of them."
Skype capture
US authorities said they had found about 3,000 pictures of nude or semi-nude women on Mr Kazaryan's computer.
Some of the images had been taken from online accounts, while others had been captured by Mr Kazaryan himself on Skype, they alleged.
"When the victims discovered that they were not speaking with their friends, Kazaryan often extorted them again, using the photos he had fraudulently obtained to again coerce the victims to remove their clothing on camera," the statement said.
The FBI said on some occasions Mr Kazaryan had gone through with his threat to publish the sensitive images.
He now faces 30 charges - 15 counts of computer intrusion, and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft.
The FBI described the alleged blackmail as "sextortion".