警報 問題/発行するd to ALL UK children over online 'sextortion 疫病/流行性の': Police 警告する foreign ギャング(団)s are ゆすり,恐喝ing hundreds of kids over intimate pics - as mother of 犠牲者, 16, who took his own life 問題/発行するs 嘆願 to other desperate youngsters

Teachers were given an 前例のない 警報 yesterday about pupils 存在 的d in 'sextortion' scams.

The 国家の 罪,犯罪 機関 警告するd all 570,000 最初の/主要な and 第2位 teachers across Britain that children as young as five are at 危険.

It is the first time the NCA has 問題/発行するd a 国家の 警報 to schools and 専門家s say it is 緊急に needed to 茎・取り除く a 'sextortion 疫病/流行性の'.

The number of children 的d by 犯罪の ギャング(団)s has risen by 266 per cent in just two years. The NCA said 243 fell 犠牲者 in 2020 but this ロケット/急騰するd to 890 in 2022.?

Ruthless 犯罪の ギャング(団)s from West Africa and South East?Asia are 誘惑するing in children online, tricking them into believing they are in a 本物の 関係 or friendship with someone their own age before 需要・要求するing they 株 intimate photographs or film themselves on a webcam.

Blackmailers then 脅す to 解放(する) nude or 半分-nude photos of them, either real or 偽の, to their friends and family unless they 支払う/賃金 up.

The NCA 警告するd yesterday that at least three children killed themselves as a result. In December, Murray Dowey, 16, from Dunblane, Perthshire, took his own life hours after 存在 的d in a sextortion ゆすり,恐喝 陰謀(を企てる) with 可能性のある links to Nigeria.

Murray's grieving mother Ros Dowey 問題/発行するd a desperate 嘆願 to other young 犠牲者s of the scams. 'Please don't do what Murray did. Nothing is 価値(がある) taking your own life. Nothing,' she said.?'No 事柄 how terrified and awful you're feeling at the moment, that will pass and this can be 直す/買収する,八百長をするd.'?

Murray Dowey, 16, (pictured) took his own life hours after being targeted in a sextortion blackmail plot with potential links to Nigeria

Murray Dowey, 16, (pictured) took his own life hours after 存在 的d in a sextortion ゆすり,恐喝 陰謀(を企てる) with 可能性のある links to Nigeria

Dinal De Alwis, 16, (pictured) had just started sixth form when he killed himself after being blackmailed on social media over nude photographs

Dinal De Alwis, 16, (pictured) had just started sixth form when he killed himself after 存在 ゆすり,恐喝d on social マスコミ over nude photographs

Mark and Ros Dowey said there 'world has been shattered' since losing their son Murray

示す and Ros Dowey said there 'world has been 粉々にするd' since losing their son Murray

'They've 全く destroyed our family,' Mrs Dowey told the BBC.?

In October 2022, Dinal De Alwis, 16, from Sutton, south London, killed himself after 存在 ゆすり,恐喝d by a stranger 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd to be in Nigeria (人命などを)奪う,主張するing to have nude pictures of him.

Police say all age groups and genders are 存在 的d, but a large 割合 of 事例/患者s have 伴う/関わるd male 十代の少年少女s 老年の from 14 to 18.

Teen who took his own life over £100 Snapchat 脅し?

Dinal De Alwis had just started sixth form with hopes of 熟考する/考慮するing at Cambridge when he was sent two nude photographs of himself by a blackmailer on Snapchat.

The sender 脅すd to 今後 the pictures to all of his friends unless he paid £100.

The 16-year-old, 熟考する/考慮するing at a 主要な 私的な school ? Whitgift in south London ? was 設立する dead later that night. His blackmailer had sent a message 説: 'So you think 封鎖するing me can stop me? What do you want me to do ? you want me to send to all of your 信奉者s? Why can't you just 支払う/賃金 me? £100?'

An 検死 in February 支配するd that the keen footballer and rugby player had committed 自殺 after 存在 ゆすり,恐喝d by a stranger 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd to be in Nigeria.

His family, from Sutton, south London, 述べるd him as their 'golden boy'. He had 達成するd straight A*s in his GCSEs.

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In 2015, 428 sextortion 事例/患者s were 報告(する)/憶測d to police, most 伴う/関わるing adults. And the 最新の 人物/姿/数字s for online ゆすり,恐喝 show 13,322 事例/患者s in England and むちの跡s in the year to September 2022. That equates to 36 犠牲者s a day.

More than half of 事例/患者s were の近くにd with no 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑う identified because the 悪党/犯人s are often overseas.

捜査官/調査官s say the 罪,犯罪s 報告(する)/憶測d to police are the tip of the iceberg and they believe ギャング(団)s are making millions of 続けざまに猛撃するs 的ing British children.

The 罪,犯罪 調査する for England and むちの跡s 設立する almost one in ten children 老年の 13 to 15 received a 性の message online in the past year and two thirds of those 伴う/関わるd photos. Yesterday 安全 大臣 Tom Tugendhat 警告するd: 'Sextortion destroys lives. It is often driven by 高度に sophisticated organised 罪,犯罪 groups who 偉業/利用する 攻撃を受けやすい people for 利益(をあげる).

'It's 決定的な that 科学(工学)技術 companies take 責任/義務 for the safety of their 使用者s by 器具/実施するing stronger 保護(する)/緊急輸入制限s. I would 勧める parents to talk to their children about their use of social マスコミ. Even 場所/位置s that many assume to be 安全な may 提起する/ポーズをとる a 危険.'

In some instances children's social マスコミ accounts are 存在 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd by blackmailers who impersonate them to 的 their friends and in other 事例/患者s children are 脅すd that their own account has been 妥協d and their photos and messages will be sent to all 接触するs if they don't 支払う/賃金 up.

Marie Smith of the NCA said: 'They're 極端に malicious, they do not care about that child or that child's life.

'This is why it's an 警報 more so than part of our broader education programme because of this callousness that we're seeing, it's 極端に dangerous.'

The NCA 警報 供給するs advice about spotting the 調印するs of a buse, supporting young people and encouraging them to 捜し出す help. It also 含むs 指導/手引 for parents and carers on how to talk to their child about sextortion, and how to support them if they become a 犠牲者.

It advises 犠牲者s not to 支払う/賃金, to 封鎖する the 違反者/犯罪者 and 知らせる police.

Dinal (pictured) killed himself after being blackmailed by a stranger suspected to be in Nigeria?claiming to have nude pictures of him

Dinal (pictured) killed himself after 存在 ゆすり,恐喝d by a stranger 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd to be in Nigeria?(人命などを)奪う,主張するing to have nude pictures of him

Dinal had been top of Whitgift School in Croydon in English and economics after achieving straight A*s in his GCSEs

Dinal had been 最高の,を越す of Whitgift School in Croydon in English and 経済的なs after 達成するing straight A*s in his GCSEs

によれば the NCA, child 犠牲者s have 報告(する)/憶測d 存在 接触するd by an online account they do not know but which appears to be another child or young person.?

Children have also 報告(する)/憶測d 存在 quickly engaged in sexually explicit communications, which might 含む the 違反者/犯罪者 株ing an indecent image first.? Young people also said they were manipulated or 圧力d into taking nude or 半分-nude photos or ビデオs, によれば the NCA.

James Babbage, Director General for 脅しs at the 国家の 罪,犯罪 機関, said: 'Sextortion is a callous 罪,犯罪. 悪党/犯人s have no 関心 for 犠牲者s or the lives that might be destroyed in the 過程. Their 単独の 動機づけ is 財政上の 伸び(る).

'We are asking education professionals to help us raise 認識/意識性 about this 罪,犯罪 type, which is sadly 増加するing across the world. This 警報 is designed to guide them in supporting young people who may be 的d.

'Sextortion 原因(となる)s immeasurable 強調する/ストレス and anguish, and we know there are adults and young people who have devastatingly taken their own lives as a result.

'A lot of 犠牲者s feel responsible but we need them to know this is 絶対 not the 事例/患者; you are not to 非難する and help and support is 利用できる. 同様に as raising 認識/意識性 with this 警報, we want to encourage young people to 報告(する)/憶測 出来事/事件s to an adult they 信用, the police or to the CEOP Safety Centre.'

Susie Hargreaves OBE, 大統領 of the Internet Watch 創立/基礎 (IWF), said: 'Sextortion has become a major 脅し online in the last few years. This 警報 to schools is an 絶対 決定的な 介入 in stemming this 疫病/流行性の which has already 廃虚d so many young lives.

'These 犯罪のs are 冷淡な-血d, and do not even care when the shame and 恐れる they (打撃,刑罰などを)与える 運動s some children to take their own lives.

'We want children to know, however, they are not alone, no 事柄 how lonely if feels, that there is a 治療(薬), and a way to take 支配(する)/統制する and fight 支援する. The 報告(する)/憶測 除去する 道具 we run with Childline is 革命の and 許すs you to stop 性の imagery 存在 株d or from going viral online.?

'Please, if you are 存在 的d this way, reach out. It is not a hopeless 状況/情勢, and we are here to help you.'