Saturday, October 14, 2023

beyond 419: nigerians now ply internet sexual extortion


saturday, october 14, 2023 at 03:51:28 p.m. edt

WASHINGTON (AP) — last year, a teenager in a small michigan town killed himself after an online chat turned to demands that he pay money to keep intimate photos secret. He was one of dozens of people targeted online by two men extradited from nigeria to f

N.S.: I don't get this business of sending intimate pix of oneself to other people. I don't even send them to myself!



WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year, a teenager in a small Michigan town killed himself after an online chat turned to demands that he pay money to keep intimate photos secret. He was one of dozens of peop…
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The internet has done society no favors.Pandora's Box was nothing compared to what tech companies unleashed on us the last 20 years.Now with AI,it can only cause more misery.

--GRA

Anonymous said...

"N.S.: I don't get this business of sending intimate pix of oneself to other people."

What could be the reason for that?

https://www.ksl.com/article/50708657/father-of-high-school-athlete-who-died-by-suicide-after-sextortion-scam-shares-warnings

Anonymous said...

Nigerians, the best scammers in the world, probably even exceed the efforts of gypsies Nigerians. Also big-time drug smugglers heroin is their specialty say, receive the death penalty quite often over in the southeast Asian countries, and sometimes or even executed, we sure hope so seems