• At least 3,000 minors, primarily young boys, have been victims of sextortion over the past year.
• The FBI, along with the Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), released a public safety alert on Monday warning parents about the serious uptick in sexploitation reports.
• Over the past year, law enforcement has received over 7,000 reports related to online financial sextortion of minors, contributing to more than a dozen suicides.

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