The Gulf Cooperation Council’s Health Council has identified the stages in which children are victims of electronic extortion, whether through electronic games or social media platforms.
The council explained that the blackmailer first gradually gets to know the child and often pretends to be a person of the same age, then collects information about the child’s interests and personal life.
He added that the blackmailer begins, after these two stages, to gradually build a close relationship with the child, and then collects photos and videos from him, as the blackmails and threats begin with the impact of the blackmailer on the child’s trust in his family .
He pointed out that electronic blackmail of a child is divided into 3 types, which are emotional blackmail by demanding pictures, videos and personal information to be used to influence and control the child’s feelings and moral blackmail by demanding an immoral act, as well as material blackmail requesting the blackmailer to transfer money or gifts.
