Yes, it's indeed the best to do. However, the point is that although the threats are false, since there isn't any recorded content, it's a fact scammers use something many people really do in secret, being even considered common behavior among internet male users. Maybe the victims have families and feel really embarrassed when confronted with such threats that they don't think twice before sending the money to the scammers, also because they don't want too much attention that will be inevitably caused when calling the police or involving the law towards a sensible subject like this.
when it involves our family that happened because of humiliation, of course everyone can't think long and can make mistakes that can't be controlled because they have been carried away with emotions that they actually made so that fraudsters can make us unable to think clearly
it will apply to anyone if they experience something like this, and it is very humane, especially if it involves the security forces where in some countries the laziest to deal with the security forces, because it does not solve problems but creates new problems, they understand the situation so they can commit fraud freely .