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  1. ‘Exponential increase in cruelty’ as sextortion scams hit younger victims

    Reports involving sexual extortion are on the rise as criminals become more ‘adept’ at targeting younger children.

  2. IWF urges young people to get help as criminals target younger children in ‘sextortion’ scams

    Tamsin McNally, Hotline Manager at the IWF, appeared live on National BBC Breakfast news to warn about the increasing prevalence of “sextortion” online.

  3. Sextortion

    Advice for children, young people, adults and parents or carers on Sexually Coerced Extortion or 'Sextortion'.

  4. Adults

    Help for people aged 18 or over who may be suffering online blackmail, sexually coerced extortion or 'sextortion' for nude images or videos and/or money.

  5. Sexually coerced extortion

    Learn how IWF combats sexually coerced extortion, a growing online threat where children are blackmailed using intimate images.

  6. Teens face ‘crisis’ of online sexual exploitation as charity says major new Government-backed scheme will ‘put rocket boosters’ on Online Safety Act

    New Image Intercept tool offers smaller platforms free protection from criminal content, as teens face crisis of online sexual exploitation.

  7. UK teen’s sex abuse imagery identified thanks to IWF analysts’ pioneering work with policing database

    IWF analysts use CAID and victim reports to verify teen abuse victims, helping remove illegal imagery that might otherwise be missed.

  8. 40% increase in people seeking charity’s help to stop looking at online sexual images of children

  9. Latest Internet Watch Foundation report shows Europe now hosts 60% of child sexual abuse webpages

  10. Child sexual abuse content increasingly being ‘masked’ online to hide crimes – latest global data

  11. ‘Disturbing’ rise in videos of children who have been groomed into filming their own abuse

  12. ‘Terrifying escalation’ in battle to keep children safe online as new figures reveal 300,000 people in the UK could pose sexual threat to children

    The National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed it believes there are a minimum 300,000 individuals in the UK posing a sexual threat to children, either through physical “contact” abuse or online.