‘Recovery Scams’ Targeting Sextortion Victims Are on the Rise, Experts Warn

‘Recovery Scams’ Targeting Sextortion Victims Are on the Rise, Experts Warn
A woman types on a laptop on a train in New Jersey on May 18, 2021. The Associated Press/Jenny Kane
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A panicked 14-year-old from British Columbia and his family paid $1,500 to a company that claimed it would recover intimate images that were being used to extort him. It didn’t.

Darren Laur, chief training officer at White Hatter, an internet safety and digital literacy education company based in Victoria said the teen’s family reached out to him with their story after the other firm told them there was nothing that could be done.