The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning on Twitter regarding sextortion campaigns used by scammers to target young people from all over the United States. The agency also added to their alert the fact that the scammers usually rely on photos sent by potential victims to people they don’t know in real life. Sextortion is a federal crime that happens when an adult coerces a child to produce sexually explicit photographs or video of themselves and then send it to them over the Internet. The FBI is seeing an increasing number of cases start on connected gaming systems.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-releases-warning-on-sextortion-scams-targeting-teenagers/