Extortion

thumb|Looting|Loot and Extortion. Statues at [[Trago Mills, poking fun at the Inland Revenue.]] Extortion 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. In most jurisdictions it is likely to constitute a criminal offence. Unlike extortion, robbery is the obtaining of goods using immediate personal violence, or the immediate threat of violence, usually in a one-off situation.

thumb|right|The England Runestones#U 241|runestone U 241 in Lingsberg, [[Uppland, Sweden, was raised by the grandchildren of Ulfríkr circa 1050 in commemoration of his twice receiving Danegeld in England.]]

person who offered loans with extremely high interest rates, often with strict terms of collection

thumb|Alan Freed was a notable disc jockey convicted of accepting payola bribes.

thumb|A mockup example of a sextortion text message. After obtaining naked photographs or videos of the victim, the scammer then threatens the publication of these pictures or to send them to close friends and family members. A demand of money is then made, though usually the scam is either a bluff (e.g. the scammer never intended to publish them) or the pictures/videos are published regardless even if the money is sent. Sextortion (a portmanteau of sex and extortion) employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim. Sextortion refers to the broad category of sexu

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benefit received from someone under coersion

tax fee extorted by a non-governmental revolutionary organization

nuclear strategy in which an aggressor uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons

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Franeleros are people who have as main activity guarding or keeping an eye on cars parked in several streets in certain places in large Mexican cities, getting a tip as a reward, which sometimes is established by them. The term comes from the Spanish word franela, meaning flannel, which is a small piece of soft light fabric (normally washed out red or gray) which they use to wash the cars if they are asked to, or to simply wave it around to give parking indications. Franeleros are sometimes also known as cuida-coches (car keepers) or "viene vienes" (literally "come come"), which is the phrase

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