Editor Notes: The Yahoo Boys are reportedly not so much a centralized group as a loosely connected network of individuals and small clusters engaging in cybercrime schemes. In French-language reporting, they are usually referred to as "brouteurs," while in English-language reporting, they are often identified as "Yahoo Boys." While the Yahoo Boys have reportedly been experimenting with deepfake technology since sometime in 2021 or 2022, with these blackmail incidents reportedly beginning in earnest in 2023 and picking up in 2024. The incident date of 01/27/2024 is based off of a WIRED report's publication on the specific vector of impersonating news organizations for the sextortion schemes. Refer as well to the Network Contagion Research Institute's report of 01/30/2024, "A Digital Pandemic: Uncovering the Role of ‘Yahoo Boys’ in the Surge of Social Media-Enabled Financial Sextortion Targeting Minors," available at https://networkcontagion.us/reports/yahoo-boys/. See Incident 911 for more general reporting on Yahoo Boys using deepfakes for romance scams. See Incident 901 for a specific example of how three Yahoo Boys allegedly defrauded a French woman of $850,000 by posing as Brad Pitt. See Incident 913 for information pertaining to their use of AI to allegedly impersonate news organizations to blackmail victims. Refer to Incident 551 for more on the FBI having reported a surge of AI-related sextortion cases.