DR’s new investigative series “Jagten på sexafpresserne” (“The Hunt for the Sextortionists,” premiered 25 May 2026 on DRTV, three episodes) follows host Milton, whose identity was stolen six years ago and used to extort young people on Snapchat. He digs into his own case and maps a fast-growing industry. Numbers from the Danish Director of Public Prosecutions show that the number of men reporting sextortion rose by 1,643% from 2019 to 2025. Police are described as largely powerless against foreign perpetrators who have developed specialised methods.
This isn’t really a story about crime. It’s a sign of a culture where what looks real, isn’t. Identities on a screen can be borrowed, invented or outright stolen, and victims have almost no real help available. We’ve reached a point where the digital space can no longer be taken at face value — and where a whole generation of young men are caught in a market their parents didn’t know existed. The deeper movement is a break in trust with the digital surface: we are learning that what we see is not necessarily what it claims to be — which opens a large vacuum for products, services and signals that help people tell real from constructed.
So…:
Where in your market will customers soon demand to know whether what they’re meeting is real?
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