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Electronic blackmail
The process of electronic blackmail is defined as a process of threatening and intimidating the victim by publishing photos or videos that include leaking confidential information about the victim. In return for paying sums of money or exploiting the victim to carry out illegal acts for the benefit of extortionists, such as exposing confidential information of the employer or others. of illegal activities.
- The electronic blackmail is a crime of humanity, and it is a crime committed by a person by means of threats and coercion, and it is, as the Egyptian Dar Al-Iftaa clarified, that it is a disobedience with a great sin and a major major sins.
- Article 25 of the Information Technology Crimes Law No. 175 of 2018 stipulates that the penalty (electronic extortion in Egypt related to the blackmailer who attacks the private information content of any person shall be imprisonment for a period not less than 6 months, and Article 26 of the Egyptian Penal Code stipulates imprisonment For a period not less than two years, and not more than 5 years for the blackmailer.
- According to this article
The blackmailer shall be punished by paying a fine of no less than 100,000 pounds and not more than 300,000 pounds for anyone who refuses to use any of the techniques that link people's content with content that is contrary to public morals.