A Review on Prevalence of Cyber Sextortion Among Internet users in North East Nigeria
Keywords:
Cyber Crime, Cyber Sextortion, Internet Users YouthsAbstract
Cyber sextortion is an emerging phenomenon across the world, which is facilitated by the use of online environments where perpetrators gain the trust of vulnerable individuals in order to obtain sexually explicit material and then use it to coerce, threaten or intimidate the victims for the purposes of sexual, personal or financial gain The paper is entitled to give an overview on the phenomenon of cyber sextortion in north eastern Nigeria with the aims providing nature and impact of sextortion as emerging cyber threat in the study area which has negative effect on psychological and emotional imbalance such as anxiety, depression poor mental wellbeing, feeling of shame, anger, fear, helplessness, and loneliness or even forced to restrict their movements, exclude themselves from social life. Cyber sextortion is committed on daily basis irrespective of ages, gender, race, youths and adolescent who are usually perpetrate so-called phenomenon. This research depends upon secondary source or desk review data that will be generated via printed materials such as textbooks, book chapters, newspapers, magazines, journal articles, and periodicals, among others. The findings of the study revealed that the advent of social media such as Instagram, Facebook and Tweeter among others have dramatically become an analogy which promote cyber sextortion in the cyber space. The study recommended that, Religious clerics should extend level of awareness in the mosques, churches in order to counsel parents and youths.
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