Sarah Greenhalgh

Oct 15, 2024 | 7news.com.au | Phil Goyen |Sarah Greenhalgh

World-leading cyber intelligence analyst, Paul Raffile is warning of a new potentially deadly scam targeting teenagers on Instagram. “The one that I’m seeing on the horizon is actually a variation of sextortion” Raffile says. Sextortion is a cruel form of online blackmail whereby a scammer tricks or coerces their victims into sending sexual images of themselves, before threatening to share the image unless the victim pays.

Jul 24, 2024 | 7news.com.au | Sarah Greenhalgh

WARNING: Distressing contentInstagram and Facebook’s parent company Meta says it has finally taken down about 63,000 Nigerian Instagram accounts running sextortion scams, along with thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to organise, recruit and train new scammers. Sextortion is a cruel form of online blackmail whereby a scammer tricks or coerces their victims into sending sexual images of themselves, before threatening to share the image unless the victim pays.

Apr 20, 2024 | 7news.com.au | Sarah Greenhalgh

On Channel 7’s quiz show The Chase, Anne Hegerty is all the things you’d expect from her English Governess alter-ego. Formidable, stern and for the wannabe quizzers who come up against her, I imagine even a tad scary. But little about the real Anne Hegerty is quite as conventional. Stream Spotlight free on 7plus “I’m really quite an optimist. My feeling is that life gets better and better” the 65-year-old tells me.

Jul 1, 2023 | 7news.com.au | Sarah Greenhalgh