What we do
Whatever stage you're at — a fresh threat, a demand, or content already shared — there is a calm, clear way through this, handled by people who deal with it every day.
Online blackmail usually starts in a way that feels ordinary.
A friendly message, a match on an app, a conversation that turns personal. Then something shared in private becomes leverage: a threat to send images or information to your family, friends, or colleagues unless you do what they ask.
It can move fast, and it's designed to make you feel trapped and alone. You are neither. What's happening to you is a recognised crime with a known pattern — and a known response.
This has become one of the fastest-growing online crimes in the world, rising sharply across the UK, Australia, and beyond.
Reports are surging
+1,300%
Reported cases of sextortion have risen sharply in recent years.
Australia, eSafety Commissioner (2018/19–2022/23).
The instinct is to make it stop by doing what they ask. It rarely works. Official guidance from law enforcement is consistent: meeting the demand seldom ends the threats — and once someone has shown they'll comply, the pressure usually continues.
The stronger move is almost always to stop responding, preserve everything, and get specialist help quickly — before the situation escalates.
And if it feels like you're the only one this is happening to — you're not. By some estimates, as few as 1 in 10 ever report it, most staying silent because of what's been shared.
Estimate based on Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre data.
Depending on your situation, this can include:
Working to get images, videos, or posts taken down from wherever they've surfaced, and to limit how far they spread.
Building a clearer picture of who is really behind the threats, which often changes what becomes possible.
Capturing and securing a proper record of what's happened, in a form that holds up if it's ever needed.
Clear, steady direction on what to do, what to avoid, and how to handle contact so you don't make things worse.
Watching for anything new, so a problem that resurfaces later doesn't catch you unprepared.
We don't promise outcomes no one can control. We're honest about what's realistic, and about the limits.
These aren’t anyone’s story in particular. They’re the shapes these cases tend to take — and how the work tends to go.
A conversation that began on an app turns personal, then becomes a threat: do what they ask, or private images reach family and colleagues.
Contact is paused on a clear plan, everything is preserved as evidence, and work begins to understand who is really behind it — with removal and monitoring ready the moment they’re needed.
Private material has already been posted somewhere public, and it’s starting to spread.
The priority shifts to containment: removal efforts across wherever it has surfaced, and steady monitoring for anything that reappears, so the situation stops widening.
The demands keep arriving, and each response only seems to invite the next one.
The cycle is broken with a clear approach to contact, the record is secured, and the focus moves to the source — with someone steady alongside you throughout.
You tell us what's happening; we listen without judgement.
A specialist explains, plainly, what can be done and what we'd recommend.
If you decide to go ahead, we take it on and keep you with us throughout.
These situations escalate quickly — which is exactly why we respond fast.
It escalates fast
Under an hour
Offenders have gone from first contact to blackmail in under an hour — which is why acting quickly matters.
UK National Crime Agency.
Discretion runs through everything — your situation is shared only as far as the work requires. We keep our methods private, both to protect the people we help and to avoid handing a manual to the people we work against. And the same specialist stays with your case from start to finish.
Usually not. It more often signals that you'll comply, and the demands continue.
Often, yes — though it depends where it is and how far it's spread. We're honest about what's realistic in your case.
Discretion is fundamental. Your situation is shared only as far as helping you requires.
Frequently we can build a much clearer picture of the source, which can change what's possible.
There is still a great deal that can be done — containment, removal efforts, and monitoring. It's not too late.
Quickly. Because these situations move fast, so do we.
We can't promise outcomes no one controls. What we can promise is that we'll be honest about what's possible, discreet in how we do it, and quick to act.