One day after Laval police began an operation to crack down on extortion, two cafés were targeted by gunfire. The shootings ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum launched a high-profile campaign against extortion, calling it a nationwide problem.

Mexico's government said Wednesday it had dismantled a criminal group behind a massive extortion scheme in the biggest such operation to date. The gang, with ties to a major drug cartel, had operated ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Extortion appears to be increasing in Honduras as smaller gangs fill the gap left by larger groups who are retreating from the criminal economy. At the same time, arrests for extortion are falling, ...

According to U.S. court documents, Jasmeet Singh made repeated calls threatening a victim who moved to Canada after helping ...

Men, the survey showed, are also more likely than women to be the subject of these scams, with 65% of victims and 60% of targets being male. Meanwhile, 53% of mobile extortion scam victims are ...