My name is not really relevant to the story. It’s the unraveling that matters. I’m a 42-year-old man who has experienced the sting of loss more profoundly than most. I am a widower, my wife having been taken from me way too soon, passed and left me without the joy of children to ease the pain. The years that followed were filled with a deep sense of loneliness and longing. I think I never recovered from that. Once filled with love and laughter, my house was a constant reminder of the emptiness that had befallen my life.

Facebook sees an average of 2.9 billion monthly active users, a staggeringly large amount considering that the world’s population is nearing 8 billion. That’s just over a third of the entire population accessing Facebook each month. 

These users are spread across all corners of the earth and allow people to interact in many ways. Facebook allows for direct user messaging, joining groups that function like forums, and for each user to share media that is their own or from someone else.

The ability for users from all over the world to communicate on a singular platform has led to a social media boom. Many social media platforms offer different value propositions [...]

As technology advances, so does cybercrime. Thus, causing a new crime to emerge called online sextortion. States like Michigan are no exception to this crime, with an increasing number of reported incidents. Keep reading for real-life cases of sextortion in Michigan and find out what legal implications there are to combat this rising threat.

Sextortion is the act of blackmailing someone with personal sexual images or videos, often obtained by hackers or scammers who have tricked or coerced their victims into providing them. In Michigan, reports of sextortion have tripled in the last two years, with young people and vulnerable [...]

One of the fastest growing wrinkles in online crime is called “sextortion.” People are lured into sharing extremely personal photos or videos in an online conversation they think will remain private – only to find out they must pay blackmail money to keep those compromising images from being shared with a spouse or a boss. Those pictures might even end up on a website or all over social media if the blackmail isn’t paid.

Sextortion has been around for a while, but it has grown in frequency in recent years as people spend more and more time online.