Officials warn of sextortion scam, where a female contacts underage males asking for inappropriate images/videos

NOBLE COUNTY, OHIO ( WTRF ) Officials in Ohio are warning the public about a sextortion scam targeting underage kids.

The Noble County Sheriff’s Office put out a warning that a subject (unknown if male or female) was posting on Facebook as a person named Elizabeth White. The person was using the White profile to chat with underage males through Facebook Messenger.

The alleged female attempts to get underage kids to share inappropriate images/videos and then uses those to extort them for money.

The underage kids will then be threatened and told if they don’t pay a certain amount of money, the alleged female will send those images/videos to their friends and family. Even if a juvenile doesn’t send any inappropriate pictures/images, the alleged female could use other images, saying they are of the juvenile during the attempt to extort them.

Sheriff Jason Mackie stated “The first way to protect our youth, is to have these tough conversations with them. Explain they should not be adding or talking with anyone they have not met in person. We need to talk with our children and warn them not to share images or videos through any platform they wouldn’t want their friends or family to see. “

Mackie says if anyone added this alleged female to their social media platforms to report and block the profile immediately to avoid falling victim to the scam.

The Noble County Sheriff’s Office is investigating this fraudulent account while working with ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) and NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

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