Cyber sextortion

Nowadays developing of technology and utilization of Internet increasingly becoming widespread for all around the world have been brought many divergent methods of attack and extortion. In this study indicated extortion methods were explained in more detail. All in all as results of the inevitable development of Internet the fact that it is an environment accessible to roughly everyone the age of access to the internet has decreased considerably, however, unconscious internet users have attracted the attention of attackers, therefore attackers have enhanced various methods and techniques in order to victimize these unconscious internet users. It has been observed that individuals from all the groups of the society probably become victims and attackers, and it has been comprehended that hackers carry out the relevant attacks in a much more professional manner particularly within the scope of this study. As a result of the developed attack methods, it is aimed to obtain a lot of information, photos and videos of the victims and then to use the relevant data against the victim to obtain more sexually explicit images of the victim or to force the victim into sexual intercourse. This process is named after sextortion. Sextortion is an essential and global problem in all over the world. Efforts are ongoing to prevent sextortion to punish and rehabilitate the attackers. Aim of the study is to raise victim's awareness by definimng the relevant methods. In Turkey, different sentences have been imposed against acts of sextortion and it is important that the penalties are deterrent. In addition to that the provisions in Turkey generally consist of regulations for the events encountered, and within the frame of this study, the actions of sextortion that occur as a result of sextortion acts are examined in detail, and the existing regulations in other countries are also included. Key Words :Cyber sextortion, Cyber harassment, Sexual coercion, Sexual abuse