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Podcast: Beyond the News WFLA Interviews
Episode: Sextortion - Detective Henry Snowden
Description: St. Petersburg is seeing a wave of extortion cases using nudes aka sextortion. The criminals are meeting victims on social media or dating apps, encouraging them to send nude pictures, then demanding money to keep those photos out of friends' and family's inboxes. It's double the rate from a year ago, and worse yet, many of the victims are minors. We speak with St. Petersburg Police Detective Henry Snowden on how to avoid becoming a victim and how to keep your child from becoming a victim.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.