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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Don’t scare us and use our language to discuss sextortion, say teenagers

Teenage girl sat on her bed looking at her phone
Fearless Scotland partnered with teenagers to help create a relatable set of videos that offer advice on how to avoid and deal with a sextortion attempt. Photograph: James Chapelard

If you want to warn young people about the dangers of sextortion, Scottish teenagers say, use language that we understand, keep your messages fast-paced and don’t scare us.

Previous awareness-raising campaigns “all looked like they’d been designed by old people trying to be young”, according to the young Scots who have developed a series of online clips in partnership with Fearless, the youth service of the charity Crimestoppers, launching across social media this week.

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