Sextortion: help and support
In this section:
| 1. What is sextortion |
| 2. What you can do: reporting it to us |
| 3. Reporting it to social media companies if it happened online |
| 4. Help and support |
There is help and support available for you if you are the victim of sextortion or if you are the friend, carer or parent of someone who has been.
If you report what’s happened to the police you’ll be asked if you want to be put in touch with a support organisation.
Read: What to expect as a victim or witness of a crime
If you don’t want to report to the police you can still get help from those same organisations.
Read: Support for victims and witnesses
Adults of 18 and over
Revenge Porn Online gives free, confidential help to victims living in the UK.
Stop NCII (Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse) is a free tool to help detect and remove images from being shared online.
Samaritans is a free, confidential listening service for any issue.
Get safe online provides factual and easy to understand information on online safety.
Children and young people under 18
Report Remove allows you to confidentially report sexual images and videos of yourself and get them removed from the internet.
Childline gives free, confidential support for young people under the age of 19.
Young Minds is a mental health charity for children and young people with 24 hours a day, seven days a week text support.
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) Education gives advice for parents, children, and young people on staying safe from sexual abuse and online grooming.
Other help
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) can help if you’ve been the victim of phishing or hacking, or need advice on protecting your data online.
Action Fraud – Romance Fraud can help if you think a partner you met online is trying to get money from you but isn’t threatening or extorting you. This is known as ‘romance fraud’.