Emin Gün Sirer🔺⚔️ Profile picture
Founder and CEO @avalabs, Ex-prof @Cornell, Ex-co-director @initc3org.

Oct 21, 2019, 5 tweets

We are now talking about sextortion at #AFT19.

Turns out that more than half the audience has received a sextortion attempt!

No one admitted to paying. At least, not in public, surrounded by peers! 😀

The researchers measured what percentage of sextortion attempts lead to payment, and how much.

Turns out that people pay, and sextortion is profitable.

The spammers price discriminate based on language. They sextort English and Korean speakers for higher prices. And Spanish speakers get off easy!

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