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📈 Sextortion Report Trends & Volume
📌 NCMEC (US): 26,718 financial sextortion cases in 2023, averaging 812 reports per week—a marked increase from 2022 .
📌 VPNRanks Projection: around 66,522 reports by end of 2024, with estimates skyrocketing to 165,627 in 2025 .
📌 UK's IWF saw 89 sextortion reports involving child sexual abuse imagery in the first half of 2024—up 19% from the same period in 2023. Alarming: a 2,600% rise in cases involving girls aged 14–17.
📌 Ghana's Cyber Security Authority
logged 155 sextortion cases between January–April 2024 (≈ US $17k losses), growing slightly by 2025 with triple the financial impact.
💰 Financial Impact & Victim Experience
📌 Total U.S. losses to sextortion are estimated at US$17.2 million in 2024—a steady 11% increase from 2023, with projections of US$19.6 million in 2025.
📌 Victims lose an average of $2,400, and 40% experience daily re-extortion attempts—nearly a quarter are targeted multiple times per day.
📌 Nearly 98% of sextortion cases go unreported to law enforcement, contributing to widespread underestimation of the crime’s scope.
👶 Victim Demographics & Tactics
📌 The primary targets are teenagers—especially boys aged 14–17. Boys constitute ~90% of financial sextortion victims in the US.
📌 Girls aged 14–17 also increasingly targeted - UK IWF noted a 2,600% surge.
📌 Common platforms: Instagram (70–81%), Snapchat, and encrypted messaging apps according to vpnranks.com.