The College of Education for Women at the University of Basrah organized a symposium entitled Female Students and Electronic Extortion from Fear to Confrontation.
The symposium aims to instruct female students to beware of electronic blackmail and guide them on how to avoid falling into it and reduce the psychological effects on those who have been exposed to it.
The symposium included several topics, dealing with the phenomenon of electronic blackmail and its definition and the most important reasons that make students fall into it, in addition to a presentation of the methods of blackmail and its methods of luring the victims.
The symposium showed the most important legal procedures that the victims must follow and report on to arrest and control the blackmailer.