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this particular program, we will have a guest. I do
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not have a guest today, but I did get this email,
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and I got it a couple weeks back. And I
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held on to it because I thought, you know what?
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This would be a great thing to talk about on
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Something You Should Know. sometime when I don't have a
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guest because that happens from time to time. So today
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is that sometime. And this is a new cyber news
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investigation talking about sextortion. I know. I got this email.
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I'm like, what is that? Well, I'm going to explain
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it to you. And I didn't realize this was such
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a big deal, but apparently it's a big deal. They
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analyzed a large number of sextortion cases to identify patterns.
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A percentage of victims are paying whether the scam stops
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after payment and how often the sensitive content gets leaked
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anyway and which platforms these scams begin on and so on.
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So I've got all these details and I'm going to
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share on our Facebook page as well. Here's what they found.
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26% of victims paid the scammer, yet 55% of those
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who paid reported the threats and demands continued. So they
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have some sort of image or some sort of thing
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that they're saying, if you don't pay us, we're going
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to send this to all your friends. And then 26%
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of those people said, okay, I'm going to pay you.
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And then 55% of those who paid were still getting
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threats from them saying, pay us more, pay us more,
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pay us more. Next on here, Instagram was the first
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point of contact in 41% of these sextortion cases. Next
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in here, victims in strong distress were 2.5 times more
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likely to pay. So if they're like, hey, I just
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don't want people doing, you know, I don't want to
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have this out, whatever this stuff is. Sensitive content was
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leaked online. Only 1.6% of the time. So that's good,
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I guess. 77% of victims reported strong psychological distress. I
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suppose it would be. 5.9% of victims posts mentioned an
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inability to cope or suicidal ideation. Now, I didn't read
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into all the details on what was going on with
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Carrot Top, but I remember in the news they had
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mentioned that it was something like this. And I think
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that might even be why this was sent to me
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in the first place, this whole email. And sextortion apparently
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is on the rise. So FBI says that sextortion is
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now the second most commonly reported scam in the United States. 75,000
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reports last year. Losses totaling about $ 44 million. And that's
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about 68% increase over 2024. The National Center for Missing
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and Exploited Children received an average of 137 reports of
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financial sextortion targeting minors per day in 2025, a significant
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37% jump year over year. So who's behind these scams? Well,
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a lot of it is driven by Yahoo Boys, a
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network of cyber criminals based in West Africa. According to
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the investigation, the network says that's where a lot of
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this is coming from. They've made some progress in 2026.
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February of this year, an attorney announced that there was
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an extradition of some Nigerian officials, or I'm sorry, Nigerian nationals, rather.
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The third defendant charged in his extortion case was linked
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to a Pennsylvania teen's death. So yeah, that's why when
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this was sent to me, I thought I'm going to
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mention this. And like I said, maybe I should have
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mentioned it weeks ago, but it seems like every day
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I've got amazing guests and I love you guys. Thank
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you so much. But every once in a while, I
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do have a day like today where I don't have
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a guest and I originally did have a guest. We
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had to postpone. We're doing that later now, but I
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appreciate the fact that I finally had a chance to
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chat about this. So If you get a chance, take
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a look at all the details. I did share all
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of this at Facebook.com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook.com slash
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Sioux Falls News.