 Hele, welcome to this webinar about sex distortion. Sex distortion has become one of the highest reported fraud types in West budgets, which is why we are carrying out this webinar today. I will now hand over to Liz from Get Safe Online to start the session. Thanks very much Frankie. Well, it can be difficult to understand how and why sex distortion happens. Ie ddweud yr ysgolio mewn gwirio sy'n cael ei wneud yma hynny yw'r dweud. Yn ystod y byddai'n gweithio y pandemig yma. Mae'r byd yn ddod o'r ysgolio'n gweithio ar y Ysgolio'r Ysgolio Rhyf Ysgolio Rhyf, a'i ddim i'r ddweud i ddweud yw'r cyfnod i'r ddwylo'r cyfrifio ar ysgolio ar gyfer 2021. O'r ysgolio'r 40-55 yma, yn ymddech chi'n gweithio'r hefyd, ysgolio'r gweithio, Aunthe what to do, if this happens to you or even if you are supporting somebody. But a little bit about us first. I am hoping that you've all heard of Get Safe Online. We are working with Westраith Six Canter Council a i'n franking nouvelle on the team, to try and get out information around keeping Faith in Safe or staying safe when going online. We are a non profit organisation a mae gennym y pobl sydd i gweithio ar gyfer y cyfnodau a gweithio gweithio'r ysgol, fel y bank, y reitel, ac ymuno'r sicr. Mae'r gweithio eich cyflwynt, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r gwaith, ymuno'r cyfrifio ac y gweithio'r cyfrifio y ysgol. Maen nhw'n ei wneud y pethau, dyna'r gweithio, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r cyfrifio ar y cwrdd, a rydyn ni'n gweithio yn 2017, ac mae'n gweithio i'r gweithio'r gweithio ond wrth gwrs. Y bling yw cyfaint geisio gweithio ar gyfer lyta o'u gweithredu am gweithio'r gweithio. Y gweithredu anhygoel yn gweithio am gweithredu, fe cryptocurrency yn gwirioneddau. Mae 11 yma, mae'n datblygu a'r areaat 12 yn chi, ond ac yn ddefnyddio'r diwylliannol, mae'n diwylliannol i gwaith ei ddwylliannol i fynd wedi'ch bêl. Mae'n diwylliannol i粉wysol â gwaithio i gan flyny, ac nid o'n gweithredu. 3 mlu bydd 22, 48 ranking sy'n cael ei ddweud o'i gweithredu, cofnoddau, yn roi cyfnoddau o byw, ac yn oed. Mae enthael reidio cyfor ymddian nhw wedi amlu yn yr ystod a amlu a fydd rhaid yn oed. Ond aio'r data tro rwyf yn y cwestiynau ar gyfer cyfroeddau fel symud o gyfroeddau i gyfroeddau, neu roedd yn adnoddau rhannu'r ffarsgogol yn ystod. Mae'r pheswr cydnigol ei wneud ffarsgrwll. I ddweud yn i gynnig ymddyr hwn o dweud ar gyfer cyfrogol i ddweud platform. Felly nes i iawn i dda wedi cael ei gwn i ddwybod ymwir o'r ddeilau. Rydyn ni'n meddwl i gwych aru iawn i, yna coi chael'ch chi'n cael eu gwn rhoi a'u chymor bynnag i gael'r gwych ar gael. Rydych chi'n cael ei gveydd â'r fordd y cyd-diad, a'r ddydig i'w cerddwyd i'r gwellion i gwynedd. Felly e'r cyd-diad o'r ddwybod, neu'r fawr yn wneud fod yn ei lwyg cymryd o'i gyd-diad, mae'r cyd-diad yn ymgredig. Ieithas hynny gan gymryg Cymru ac yn ladw i gael een yma ac rhaid gyntaf yn ynchaynol ein cyfnodod sydd ym mwynhau diwyd argyfwiyd. Felly mae'n nhw'n gwybod? Bydd y nôl wedi gwirionedd ac mae'n mwybod bach yw'n mynd i'ch gweithio lle pwyddol a diwyddo fy mod ar fathershawdd, os wrth gwrs drwy'n mynd i'r bethau anthugau sy'n bethau eich mynd i gael ymgyrch i'r economion a ddim yn geithredu'r yn ymlaen. ac ydy'r oed o'r cwmdeithasol sydd wedi'i травd amser o'r ymddangos. Byddai gofyn i gyd yn y ddechrau'n gweithio'r gwmdeithasol, a'r gofyn i'n meddwl. A dyna'n tynnu'r adeg y bônys rydyn nhw ond mae'n rhaid i'r ffordd i'r rhannu i'r ddweud cyhoedd yw gwaith. Nid oes eich eich eich dechonomiaeth ar dem yn 2018, a y gallai eich ddiffrwg a'r eich ddiffrwg a yr eich ddiffrwg, mae ei eich ddiffrwg ar eich ddiffrwg erioed wedi gweld a'r ddiffrwg mae'n hi gweinid oherwydd either if you get one that looks like it's been sent from your own account. Rhan fydd eich ddiffrwg a rhaid yn cael ei bod nhw fydd ei ei ddiffrwg gael a'r eich ddiffrwg. Mae hynny'n mynd i'n mynd i'n fawr hwn i'r ddiffrwg they will lose their leverage if they post your information. After all, all they want is money. Now you may be interested to read more about the helpline cases and trends on the Revenge Pawn website, I put the link on there and it really is worth having a look at it. 85% of people living in the UK are on social media. It is a number of people who are 5% of people living in the UK are on social media, sharing pictures, chatting to friends and sparking new romance online. They're all normal parts of modern life that we've all grown used to, especially through the pandemic. The online world can be a great place to expand your social circle and you can meet new friends and even that partner. You could even have a cheeky no strings encounter but sextortion can start on any site, app, messaging platform or even gaming platforms where you meet people and you communicate. In some cases, the first contact from the criminal will be a threat straight in there. It may claim to already have a revealing picture or video and that they want to share it, especially young people where young people are concerned as well. They'll strike up a conversation or sometimes they'll try and hook you in with something else, even replying on a comment that you've made on somebody else's post. They may respond directly to you through a private message. Of course they use fake identity and often they will front their identity by using an attractive woman to entice so that you engage with them and you will participate in cyber sex. These women may have been coerced themselves into these actions using financial incentives or they could even be threatened themselves to take part. Both men and women can be victims either by being blackmailed or by being coerced into carrying out sexual acts. Now, as I say, sextortion scam has a common narrative that goes something like this. Somebody receives a seemingly harmless text or message over social media from an unknown sender. Then the sender will attempt to lure that victim into feeling a false sense of security without feeling threatened or anything. It's just a harmless conversation and in some cases the sender will share something intimate about their own lives, which obviously is made up. But then in other cases they'll act like they're interested in you and sometimes they'll even send sexy pictures or photographs of themselves. Once the groundwork is in place or once they've hooked you in, they'll strike. They'll request you or the victim to open up to them. Take part in sharing videos or sharing photographs, intimate photographs as well. Once the victim has done this, once they've sent them on to them, the attacker, the perpetrator has the advantage and that's when the blackmail will start. Once they've got all them, they will start to threaten you that they'll put it onto the internet or they will send it out to all your family and friends as well. The big question is who can be a victim? The answer is pretty simple really, anybody. However, in a recent American study showed that men were more likely than women to have problems in this sense. They experienced sex distortions since the start of the pandemic. There's lots of reasons why and it may come as a surprise as well considering women tend to be sexually victimised more frequently than men. As I say, there are a number of reasons, one of them being that men actually spend more time online than women, especially during the pandemic. And also that men are less selective when dating and more likely to fall for romance-type scams, which obviously can lead to these sort of demands. And that study actually found that the LGBTQ community were three times more likely to fall to be a target by sex-dortation. Now this little video, again, it's been around for a while but very, very up to date with it. It was created by the National Crime Agency. That's it. Okay, fine. Ready? Yeah. Okay, here we go. I'm more excited for this than I was the dark night risers, Jesus. Right, let's go. Okay, so I have received a friend request from Jess, 20 years old. Everyone has received a friend request from a stranger. C'mon, man. Mae bod o'r nexau. I can probably show you two friend requests on my phone right now that I've just thrown out on people. Okay, so we're on Skype now, great. I'm Jess. Sometimes you just want to have some fun. Right, okay. You know what I mean? I think I know what you mean. You don't mean Monopoly, do you? She's in black. Cam girl is like, you know what I mean, professional white. You need to slow down, Jess, for a minute. I could take my top off. I've only just met you, Jess. I'm intrigued to know what's going on, cos it's so random. I'm going to be intrigued, so I'm just going to, I'm just going to, I'm just going to wait. You can take your top off. Loads of people do it, don't they? I don't think it's like, it's not unusual, yeah, yeah. You're like one of those little videos that pop up on the bottom, and I'm like, hi, I want to chat. Do you know what I mean? It's just weird. It's just weird. There's like 20 single mums in your area. I'd probably just just make quiet, haven't I? I don't mean this far. I don't know what to do now. I'm nervous though, I feel there's more to this. I'd like to watch you doing stuff, while I do stuff. You're sold, they're like, yep. They're like, wait, let me lock the door in here. Okay, you know what, I think this would be like a set off or something. I wouldn't take my top off. I wouldn't listen to anything she's saying. At 26, it makes me feel really uncomfortable. At 20, it probably wouldn't have done. Having, you know, people talking about sending snapchat, the word **** pick probably came off from our generation. Yeah. Maybe you shouldn't, because you know what? I feel awkward, Jess. You're being recorded. Am I? Understand. You're being blackmailed. Your contacts have been downloaded. The film will be shared with your friends, your family. Oh, mate. Oh, my God, does this happen? Oh, God. That's bad. Your contacts have been downloaded. Oh, oh, oh. Understand. Okay. Unless you pay. Now you're peeling off. Now you're peeling off so many reddies. So that's like a completely false room. She's just there to image. I'm literally gripping my knees so tightly now, because this is tense. Your fans, your mum, your dad. All the production companies you've ever worked with. Everyone. It's going to define my content. I would be able to breathe. If you think you can talk me out of it, think again. Because for the guys behind me pressing the buttons, it's just business. It really puts it out there and demonstrates how easy it is just with a click on a friend request. Obviously not everybody you meet online is going to be a criminal. In fact, around 30% of relationships actually start online. But there are some good tips on here just to help you potentially avoid dangerous situations like this. So let's have a look. Check their social media profiles as well. Does it look realistic? How many friends do they have? Either up to date posts or are they just generic posts out there as well? And how quickly are things moving between the two of you? Are they putting pressure on you? Are they trying to move you off the platforms that you met onto a different chat platform, which is an end-to-end encrypted where there's just going to be the two of you? If you are looking to start a relationship online, there are some things that you need to do. Just to help you from becoming a target. I've already mentioned that criminals will try to befriend you just by using a fake persona. So let's have a look. Personal information is readily available online. It is just a matter of doing a little bit of digging around. So let's start with reverse image searches. First of all, check them out. Check the name. What comes back on a Google search? And then let's put the picture in there. If you're not quite sure how to do this, let's just have a look. If you go on to Google Images and just click on the camera, if you screenshot the picture that they've sent you potentially, and then just drag it across, what that does then will give you visually similar pictures to the one that you've uploaded. If you can, try and make sure it's just the face and that you cut out any of the backgrounds there as well. It's also going to show you examples of where that picture has been used and more likely 100%. So you will find that these fake personas, they've been stolen from people's accounts or Facebook, Instagram, and also from potentially catalogs. They'll take the pictures from anywhere where they can. If you don't use Google, then try TinEye Image Search. It works exactly the same as the Google as well. So let's stop. Let's take control. Let's secure our accounts. Change the password for your social media and online accounts and review the privacy settings for all your accounts. And why are you still reusing passwords? The ease by which passwords can be cracked obviously is determined by the length and the complexity of your password. So let's just try and keep things simple and let's make sure that we are using three random words for every password online. So let me have a look and show you how easy to do. Think of three random words, any words. Here we've got stop, think, protect. For us to be able to identify which account it is, I've just shown it here. You can write the account, you can just do the initials, a random number and a character there as well. So you've got your three random words and then your formula is how you pull it all together. That way it makes it a lot more secure and a lot more complicated for the criminals, the scammers to guess your password. You also need to be thinking about 2FA, two-factor authentication, about layering. So all your accounts that you've got out there or your social media accounts and everything else, let's look at the settings, go into there and let's start taking back control and setting up that extra layer of a two-factor authentication. And what that does basically is you secure your accounts with a secure pin number. If somebody is to try and use your account or if you're using your account in an area or on a device that you've never used before, it will ask you, it will send you a message and ask you is this you and for you then to verify that it is. And thinking about terms and conditions of all these apps and everything else that you're downloading, how many actually read the terms and conditions? Most people just brush past it just to get it on there and how do you know you've downloaded it from the right app store? Just be aware what permissions you're giving out and what apps you're granting the apps to be able to have access to. So it really is important to have a look at that. And the other thing is just think about where you are downloading. Clicking on little messages that are being sent supposedly from friends, not always from friends, or you may be on a social media app and there may be links on there in the chat. These could be two-fold. One you may end up with having malware putting onto your devices, which then obviously can steal what you're doing. Look at your photographs and capture all things like that. And then the other side of it is obviously that once they've got access to your devices, potentially they can also screenshot and take everything else or take the videos and everything off there. So think where you're downloading them from. Don't just click on any random links. Look at Apple Store, Google Play, Microsoft. Make sure that it is the correct website that you're downloading from. And secure your accounts. Securely make sure that they are all updated, all your apps, all your accounts are all individually updated as well. Updates patch the holes, backups protect what matters. It prevents malicious software accessing your systems as well. You don't want your camera activating without your knowing it. Definitely you don't and you don't want your keystrokes being watched either. So apart from protecting your malware, it will also keep your device running and be more efficient as well. So what about your information out there? Obviously the criminals or the people who are doing this, they will want to know if they are targeting you what information is out there so that they can be more believable when they do start to try and reel you in. So think about it. Google your own name. Google yourself, put an image search on for yourself as well. It is worth having a look at your home addresses. Is that out there as well? 192.com You can get a full report what's out there. There is a small cost to that if you wanted to take it that step further as well. And what about your family and friends? What are they saying about you? What information are they giving away about you? You need to think. Think who can see your future posts. Who can see your friends list. Limit the audience for your old posts as well. Do you want search engines outside the platform to link to your profile? Make sure you review in your posts that your friends tag you in before you actually allow them to appear on your timeline. And what about access to your contacts, your locations, your camera, even your microphone? Have you given permission for that as well? There are some homeworks that you need to do. You need to go away and start looking at all your apps and everything that you've downloaded on there and start going through them individually as well. Go into your settings on each app and look at what you've allowed them. It is quite simple, and if you're re-using passwords, change them as well. And as I say, over sharing. Have a look at reverse image search of yourself. Go into these apps and request the information that they hold. What have you liked? What have you shared? What photographs are already out there? They'll send you a zip file and you're able to work your way through them and start getting things removed as well. Set up a Google Alert in relation to yourself. This really is helpful. Some victims of taxation find it reassuring just to create a Google Alert. You can set these up with tags in your name or anything else that is posted online with your name. They'll send you a notification via your email on there. And it's also just, as I say, worth looking at all your accounts and make sure that they are locked down. Now they will apply as much pressure as possible. Sending constant messages, calling your screen shot in your friends list to show you that actually they mean business. It feels never-ending. Threats and demands for more money will continue again and again. So if the fun stops and the blackmail threats start, it is time to start to do something about it. Firstly, it is important to remember that you're not alone and that you've done nothing wrong. Try not to panic. I know it's easy to say, but reach out instead if you can. Report from a trusted friend or family member as well as an expert councillor supporting service if you are feeling anxious or stressed. Certainly don't pay any money. They'll only ask for more. And if you can, take screenshot evidence of any threats that has been made and save the direct URL links to the profile. And report the profile to the sites that you're using and deactivate your accounts. Don't delete them because you may actually lose some evidence there. And the police will use this as part of their investigation. Most importantly, don't communicate any further with them at all. Just block them and stop all communication. And ask your friends to do the same. Now many don't report because of the shame and embarrassment. And that's what the criminals are relying on. They certainly don't expect you to report it. But all platforms offer support and guidance on what you can and how you can do this to help yourself in a situation. Here are just some of the examples. And for most of the changes of privacy settings, et cetera like that, have a look at the Revenge Porn Helpline if you're not quite sure where or how you actually change your settings and report these things. They've got hyperlinks on their page, which you'll take you directly to there. Now you may or may not heard of Take It Down. But this is for people who have images or videos of themselves nude or partly nude or even in sexual explicit situations. They will help get them taken down. So this service here is for people under the age of 18 that they believe have or will be shared online. So for example, maybe they've sent a picture to someone, but now they're threatening that person with the thought that it's going to be posted somewhere. So it's worth just getting in touch with them and having a conversation. Now if you are over 18 and these things have happened to you, stopnc11.org, that's a free tool designed to support victims of non-consensual images abuse. This tool actually works by generating a hash from the images and the videos that's being created as well. So it'll just save you from having to troll through and 24 seven being online waiting for the next picture to be posted or just in case it's going to be posted. They share the information with other organisations so that they can help detect and remove the images from being shared. And if you have been a victim of intimate abuse, revenge porn or sex quotation have a really, the revenge porn has a really informative website as well. And they've also got practitioners or helpline practitioners who can give you help and support and guide you into what to do next. The other good organisation is victim support. Again, you don't have to go to the police. You don't have to have a crime number or anything like that. They will support you for as long as you need them. You can self-refer. Again, just go onto their website. Sex quotation, it is a criminal offence. This behaviour, which has become known as sex quotation also constitutes the criminal offence of blackmail. This actually is punishable with a maximum offence sentence of two years imprisonment. With that said, each case is treated individually as there may be other offences in there as well. So please do consider calling the police. They are there to support and investigate as well. And if you are struggling, especially if you're a young person, then please talk to a trusted adult so we can access the additional support for you. Just remember, you're not alone and you've done nothing wrong. You do need to reach out as and when you can. There is support there and there will be people who can help you.