Offenses of obtaining money or advantage by threat, including extortion and the protection racket, in which criminals demand payment for not harming a business or for guarding it from harm they themselves threaten. An offense belongs here when the definition is a threat used to obtain property. It excludes blackmail carried out online, which is in the cyber offenses. Entries placed here are Extortion and Protection Racket.
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Extortion (Wikipedia)
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Extortion (also known as shakedown and exaction) is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money, goods, or regular payments) from an individual or group through coercion, usually by threatening them with future psychological or physical harm.
Protection racket (Wikipedia)
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A protection racket is a racketeering scheme, usually perpetrated by a criminal organization, that coerces payments on a regular basis from an individual, group, or business in exchange for agreeing to not harm them (or for purportedly "protecting" them).
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