Webcam blackmail happens when a cyber crook threatens to spread a private video unless he receives money rapidly.

How to react and protect your e-reputation?

1- Do not answer to the cyber crook

2- Lock your accounts on the social networks

3- Take screenshots of the threats

4- Report the scam attempt to the police or gendarmerie services

5- Confide in a trustful person

6- Inform your friends about the scam attempt

 

7- In case of web broadcast of the embarrassing content:

– ask the host site for its deletion

– and the web search engines for its unreferencing.

 

For more information (in French) you may get to the French National Commission on information technology and liberties (CNIL) website