Under the patronage of the President of the Northern Technical University, Prof. Dr. Alia Abbas Ali Al-Attar, the Engineering Technical College of Kirkuk organized an awareness seminar on the dangers of cyber-extortion crimes, in the presence of Assistant Professor Dr. Muntadhar Idi Sharif, Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs and Students, and a number of heads of engineering departments and students of the college, where a full explanation was provided about These risks and ways to deal with them in light of the scientific development of social networks, which is a fertile focus for the occurrence of these crimes