The College of Education for Girls / Rehabilitation, Employment and Follow-up Unit - under the supervision of the Rehabilitation, Employment and Follow-up Center - Main Site - University of Basra held a seminar entitled (Legal Awareness to Reduce Electronic Extortion) in cooperation with the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, Basra Branch.
The seminar, in which both the teaching teacher Iqbal Naem Khalaf and the teacher lectured, included
Muntadhar Qasim Mohammed and the teacher Zahraa Jiyad Thamer and the teacher Fatima Jiyad Thamer define electronic blackmail and types of electronic extortion and then address how not to fall into the trap of extortion.

The seminar recommended the importance of clarifying the danger of electronic extortion, how to deal with it and solutions that may contribute to getting rid of it. Alerting students not to publish or send important data and information, photos or videos on social networking sites so that they cannot be easily seized, taking care not to deal with fake accounts and pirated sites, in addition to not dealing with blackmailers directly and resorting to the competent authorities.

The Dean of the College of Education for Girls, Prof. Dr. Amal Mohamed Abdel Karim, praised the need to spread legal culture among members of society, and to increase public awareness of the dangers of electronic extortion, in addition to the importance of adequate care while using the Internet and not publishing data that affects the privacy of the person in any website or application.

Department of Media and Government Communication