Video sextortion guides and manuals found on TikTok and YouTube

Exclusive: Instructions show how to trick teenagers into sending intimate photos to blackmail them financially

• How can children be protected from online sextortion fraud?

Detailed written manuals and video guides to financially motivated sexual extortion – commonly known as sextortion – are available freely online, with criminals offering specialist and tailored tuition for further payment, the Guardian has learned.

The guides can be found on platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Telegram.