By AFP on August 23, 2014 MANILA - Philippine police arrested eight suspects and are hunting more in connection with an Internet extortion racket that has victimized hundreds of people in Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau, an official said Saturday.
This is the second large-scale arrest of suspects allegedly for "sextortion" -- using the Internet to lure foreigners into sending them compromising material which they can use for blackmail, said Jhoanna Fabro, spokeswoman of the national police anti-cybercrime division.
The eight suspects were arrested and five minors taken into custody following a raid on Thursday in towns just outside Manila, she said.
But Fabro warned that an undetermined number may have escaped before the raid.
"There are other targets but we weren't able to get them," she told AFP.
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