Cyber Psychological Case Studies of Sextortion for Identifying the Accused in the Offences Committed on Social Media

Abstract

Human behaviors can never fail to astound society. People behave as they want in their privacy and sometimes it can be weirdest, dark, and taboo. Sex is not a routine and normal topic in the conversation of Indian society. Therefore, people are very secretive about their sexual beliefs, thoughts, and sexuality. Whenever anybody does anything where she/he knows that their act is not going to be known by others people tend to involve in such acts. This is the exact angle that blackmailers in sextortion have identified and they get success too in duping people. They threaten people to viral their videos or chat in the sexual act. But, the Majority of the crimes committed on social media go unreported or untraced. Due to lack of procedural setups to identify the accuses. especially in the cases of sextortion where name and shame in the society are attacked of any individual. The present research paper aims to provide a simple procedural method to identify the accused in the offences committed on social media. The authors of the research paper have chatted with the 11 blackmailers of sextortion on social media and the authors were able to identify the location of the accused. The research paper is attempting to explain the dynamics of crime and victimization of sextortion from a cyber psychological perspective.