Security experts are warning Australian students they are being actively targeted by international sextortion scammers, with organised crime gangs blackmailing students and scaring them into paying money.

Thousands of university students have been caught out by organised crime syndicates flooding their inboxes with blackmail demands as part of the latest international sextortion scam.

“The criminals basically are pretending that they’ve got compromising footage,” cyber security expert Garrett O’Hara explained.

The threatening emails from scammers convince students they’ve been hacked, telling victims photos and videos have been stolen from their devices or lewd pictures taken remotely.

“Their threat is they’re going to expose that imagery or the videos potentially and they’re then as

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