{"id":6271,"date":"2024-02-06T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:03:53","slug":"growing-online-threat-to-ns-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/growing-online-threat-to-ns-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Online Threat to NS Youth."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Youth in the 14-24 age range are being targeted by online offenders, and are sometimes deceived and manipulated into sending explicit photos or videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The offender then blackmails the victim into sending more images, money or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim is left feeling alone, ashamed, scared and often desperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On #SaferInternetDay, talk to youth about this growing threat and how they can prevent it from happening to them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be cautious when engaging with new or unknown individuals online<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Never share intimate images<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If being sextorted:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not comply with any threats, do not send more images, do not send money<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save a copy of any images you sent, and take screenshots of the messages and the offender\u2019s profile, including username<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deactivate, but do not delete, your account or images<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Report any tips to cybertip.ca and your local police<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Know that you are not alone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are resources and supports available to help. For more information on staying safe online, visit cybertip.ca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : RCMP Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth in the 14-24 age range are being targeted by online offenders, and are sometimes deceived and manipulated into sending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}