sextortion

The FBI’s San Francisco office is warning parents of teen boys about the prevalence of cyber-extortion incidents in the Bay Area and beyond.

A South Bay mother is speaking out in hopes that her family’s tragedy will help prevent other families from facing the same heartbreak. Damian Trujillo reports.

In these cases, boys meet girls online, who ask them to send graphic images of themselves — but they turn out to be adults asking for money or they’ll expose the victims, the FBI says.