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    Blackmail is the use of threat to prevent another from engaging in a lawful occupation and writing libelous letters or letters that provoke a breach of the peace, as well as use of intimidation for purposes of collecting an unpaid debt.

  2. 1. : a tribute anciently exacted on the Scottish border by plundering chiefs in exchange for immunity from pillage. 2. a. : extortion or coercion by threats especially of public exposure or criminal prosecution. b. : the payment that is extorted. blackmail transitive verb. blackmailer noun. Examples of blackmail in a Sentence.

  3. Things You Should Know. Don’t give the blackmailer what they want. Stop communicating with the blackmailer and protect all of your accounts. Compile all the evidence you have of the blackmail attempt. Report the blackmailer to the local police and the FBI. Method 1.

  4. Blackmail is the act of attempting to force someone to do something or give up something valuable by threatening negative consequences if they don’t, especially revealing negative information about them. Blackmail can also be used as a verb meaning to do such a thing.

  5. Blackmail involves a threat to do something that would cause a person to suffer embarrassment or financial loss, unless that person meets certain demands. The threat might include: to reveal private information about a person that is likely to cause them embarrassment;

  6. Add to word list. the act of threatening to harm someone or someone's reputation unless the person does as you say, or a payment made to someone who has threatened to harm you or your reputation if you fail to pay the person: Reckless behavior made him an easy target for blackmail.

  7. February 17, 2019 by: Content Team. The term blackmail describes the act of threatening to make someone suffer in some way unless they meet certain demands. Generally, it involves the threat of revealing embarrassing or damaging information about a person in order to coerce them to do something.

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