“We have flagged athletes as a growing target population. Athletes have large social media followings, expended further by NIL activities that not only increases the exposure for targeting, it increases the leverage vendors believe they hold to exposure them.”

CNN · NCAA and FBI launch partnership to combat sextortion of college athletes

“Student-athletes maintain large public-facing social media followings and in many cases expanded further by name, image and likeness activity. That visibility increases both their exposure to targeting and the leverage an offender believes they hold when threatening to expose an athlete to a coach, team, school or sponsor.”

ESPN · NCAA and FBI launch partnership to combat sextortion of college athletes