HEINOUS SYNDICATE: Sanjay Virmani speaking to the press regarding the online 'sextortion' sheme in the country held at the police headquarters in Camp Crame, east of Manila, Philippines. Police Senior Superintendent Gilbert Sosa of the Anti-Cybercrime Group of the Philippines National Police (PNP) said they arrested fifty eight suspects of sextortion acitvity and confiscated 250 pieces of electronic evidence simultaneously in central Philippines.
MANILA: Dozens of people have been arrested in the Philippines in a multinational crackdown on the exploding global menace of Internet "sextortion", Interpol and local police announced on Friday.
Industrial-style businesses run out of the Philippines have blackmailed hundreds of people around the world, luring them on social media before extracting sexually explicit information or images, they said.
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