Online Sextortion
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An enterprising teenager discovered he could use male vanity to manipulate his schoolmates into witless behavior.
Anthony R. Stancl, 18, posing as a female on Facebook, persuaded at least 31 boys to send him naked pictures of themselves and then blackmailed some of the boys into performing sex acts under the threat that the pictures would be released to the rest of the high school, according a criminal complaint.
New Berlin teen accused of using Facebook for sexual blackmail
The ubiquity and seeming transparency of the web requires circumspection.
Do guys now have a good reason to believe that a girl at school truly wants naked pictures of them? And that she’ll send one of herself back to them? And that it’s perfectly safe to swap pics on the Internet where nothing ever falls into the wrong hands?
Time for that ‘sextortion’ talk with your teen
