Simply Expressed: • Extortion = Is a way or practice to obtain something with force/ violence/ threat, so as to accomplish your ambitions Example: When someone steps in your house, without notifying you and telling you to go away, and warning you that you will get harmed if you do not obey • Blackmail = Is a way of demanding money from (a person) who did not collaborate to reveal sensitive or important information Example: When someone knows a secret about an secret organisation and denies to provide any information

Extortion is threatening someone with a detriment unless they give you something. So a gangster will threaten to destroy a shop unless owner pays him "protection" money. Blackmail is a form of extortion but the threat is usually to expose or make public some wrongdoing by the person being blackmailed.