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The importance of addressing this topic from a scientific and scientific point of view lies in the fact that electronic extortion as a crime is one of the newly developed crimes that are linked to the methods of subterfuge practiced by individuals in society and are affected by the modern technological development in the field of communications, which was in conjunction with the development of human life, as it opened a new window for unknown types of crimes to be carried out. Using modern means, these crimes are hidden from view of the perpetrator, who carries out his crime from one place, targeting a person who may be located in another place, by means that are difficult to discover and not easy to deduce. A person initiates it at will Another person to compel him to commit a particular crime is that threat and intimidation to the victim by publishing pictures or film materials or leaking confidential information about the victim, provided that this is in return for payment of money or exploitation of the victim to carry out illegal acts for the benefit of extortionists such as disclosing confidential information about the business or other illegal business. Victims are usually trolled by e-mail or various social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and other social media due to its wide spread and great use by all segments of society. Electronic extortion is increasing in light of the growing number of social media users and the remarkable acceleration in the number of different conversation programs and the human development in the use of these programs, so the legal position of it in Iraq compared to Arab countries has been clarified and how the legislative treatment of it has been done in the absence of explicit legal texts.
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