The university released a statement to Action News that reads in part, 'The University of Delaware Police has offered available resources to the victim and is actively investigating the incident.'
student is the latest victim of a crime that officials say has spread across college campuses: criminals demanding a ransom to stop them from releasing explicit photos of the victim.Iyanna Register was one of the University of Delaware students who received the alert that went out via email early Tuesday morning.
"When we're talking about college students being targeted, we're generally talking about male students where the objective is financial gain," said Rob D'Ovidio, an associate professor at Drexel University where he does research in the area of high-tech crime. The criminals, though, will often become friends with a person and send friend requests to people the victim knows. Those friends, believing the culprit is a mutual friend on social media, may then also be targeted."They've created these fake user profiles of these young very attractive women," he said. "All of a sudden the conversations turn sexualized, and then they go and request some sort of naked photo or naked video.
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