Overview
- Police in the Basque Country detained four 16-year-olds in Santurtzi after a months-long Instagram sextortion probe.
- Officers say the group posed as a 17-year-old girl on Instagram using another minor’s photos to win the victim’s trust.
- The account demanded explicit videos, threatened to publish earlier images, and extorted €100 through fear.
- Police expect more victims to come forward and advise targets not to pay, to block accounts, to save screenshots, and to report.
- The teens were released to their parents and the case was referred to the Bizkaia juvenile prosecutor.